Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander expected to be 2nd Canadian to win NBA MVP when award announced tonight [Video]

It’s time: The NBA will unveil this season’s Most Valuable Player on Wednesday night.

The winner will be Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic or Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo. It’ll be the seventh consecutive time that a player born outside of the U.S. has won the award.

Antetokounmpo, of Greek and Nigerian descent, won in 2019 and 2020. Jokic, a Serbian, won in 2021, 2022 and 2024. And Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, who was born in Cameroon but has since become a U.S. citizen, won the award in 2023.

This year’s favourite, according to BetMGM Sportsbook, is Gilgeous-Alexander — the Canadian guard who won the league’s scoring title this season and led the Thunder to an NBA-best 68-14 record.

Gilgeous-Alexander, of Hamilton, Ont., averaged 32.7 points, 6.4 assists and five rebounds per game, and is in line to win the award for the first time. He was fifth in the MVP …