NEW YORK — In a sport dominated by soaring point totals, Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the NBA’s leading scorer and the best player on the league’s top team. What could be more “valuable?”

Gilgeous-Alexander, 26, will reportedly be named the NBA Most Valuable Player on Wednesday following a campaign in which he averaged a league-best 32.7 points per game for a Thunder team that won 68 games and claimed the league’s No. 1 seed heading into the playoffs. He is expected to be officially unveiled as the winner on TNT before Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.

The Thunder star beat out fellow finalists Nikola Jokić, the Denver Nuggets’ 2024 MVP, who won the award three times and was trying to join LeBron James and Wilt Chamberlain as four-time winners, and Milw

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