Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander actually received a fourth-place vote for MVP.

Which player—or players—tops the MVP charts?

There have been almost 60,000 minutes of basketball played in this NBA season. That's 40-plus days straight of no sleep. That's an NBA coach's life to an extreme -- a hard life, as I can attest to. But even coaches don't watch 60,000 minutes worth of games.

There’s a new back-to-back Most Valuable Player ruling the NBA. Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received 83 of 100 first-place votes to repeat as MVP. He totaled 939 points in the voting to become the 14th player in NBA history to win the regular season’s highest individual honor in consecutive years.

The former NBA Most Valuable Player became just the fourth player in the history of the Association to score at least 4,000 points, collect 1,000 rebounds and dish out 1,000 dimes in the playoffs. Two of the players to have done it are in the Basketball ...