Breaking: Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won his second consecutive NBA Most Valuable Player award, becoming the 14th player in league history to win back-to-back MVPs, multiple sources tell ESPN.
Nobody even knew about Ajay Mitchell a year ago.
With how good the Thunder have been in the postseason, you forget that their second-best player hasn't even played the last three games.
Mitchell is a huge reason for that.
When Jalen Williams went down in Game 2 of the first round, Mitchell was inserted into the starting lineup.
Safe to say he's made the most of his opportunity.
Take a look at his numbers after JDub's injury:
➡️ 18.3 PTS
➡️ 4.0 REBS
➡️ 4.0 ASTS
➡️ 3-0 W-L RECORD
Last year, Mitchell appeared in just 12 playoff games in OKC's championship run as a 12TH man.
Today, he's the secret sauce to OKC's playoff success. 💯
I was the Justin Herbert vote.
The guy had the worst offensive line in the NFL all season and despite that he was working miracles in almost every single game.
Stafford's OL became 2/5ths as bad as Herbert's for 5 minutes and he became a turnover howitzer.
He embodied 'value'.