With roughly five weeks remaining in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, the race for MVP is still up in the air. Barring injury, it's a two-man race between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić, but there are a lot of interesting debates to be hard for the positioning of players behind them.

From picking up new training partners at an open gym to exploring different movements, the Thunder guard has become a star in his own way.

It took Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seven NBA seasons to log his first 50-point game. Now he has four of them in the last 40 days.