Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has done nothing but show why he's the reigning MVP and Finals MVP to start off the season for the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder . Gilgeous-Alexander is arguably the most unstoppable perimeter player in the league today, and he showed as much when he put the Indiana Pacers through the blender in their NBA Finals rematch on Thursday night, which OKC won in double overtime , 141-135.

Opposing defenses already had no answer for Gilgeous-Alexander in the past. But it seems like winning a title and all those individual accolades has freed him up to achieve an even higher level of play. Against the Pacers, he tallied a single-game career-high in scoring with 55 points, doing so on 15-31 shooting from the field and 23-26 from the free-throw line — leaving

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