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Want to win three MVPs in a row? Yali leads the team to the finals, the fourth player in the 21st century, comparable to Kozanku

The Thunder defeated the Timberwolves 124-94 at home today, eliminated the Timberwolves 4-1 with a big score, and successfully reached the finals. It is worth mentioning that this game is also the 80th victory of the Thunder this season, including 68 wins in the regular season and 12 wins in the playoffs, making it the fourth team in history to win 80 wins before reaching the finals, comparing with the Warriors (85 wins), the Bulls (83 wins) in the 15-16 season, and the Bulls (80 wins) in the 15-16 season.

The Thunder have only lost 18 games this season, and their winning rate has reached 81.6%. Not only that, the Thunder have netted double-digit numbers in their 61st game this season, surpassing the historical record set by the Warriors in 2017 (60 games). Since the Pacers have led the Knicks 3-1, the Thunder's final opponent is likely to be the Pacers.

The Thunder's regular season record against the Eastern Conference team is as high as 29 wins and 1 loss, losing only to the Cavaliers, sweeping over 14 other teams, including the Pacers, which also set a new team's best record against another division, which was 27 wins and 3 losses before. Therefore, the Thunder have great hope of winning the first championship in team history this season. In the entire Western Conference Finals, Alexander, who just won the regular season MVP, performed very well, and averaged 31.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 1.8 steals per game. He won the Western Conference Finals MVP without any suspense, thus becoming the first player in history to win both the regular season MVP and the division final MVP. Not only that, if the Thunder successfully wins the championship, Alexander is expected to win the FMVP and receive 3 MVPs in a row.

Alexander won the regular season MVP and led the team to the finals, thus becoming the first player to win the regular season MVP and lead the team to the finals after Curry in the 15-16 season. From the 21st century to the present, there are only four regular season MVPs of the season that have reached the finals, namely Kobe, James (2 times), Curry (2 times) and Alexander this season, but only Curry successfully won the championship in 2015.

In addition, Alexander is still the scoring champion of the regular season this season, and in history, only three people can win the scoring champion, MVP, and FMVP in a single season, namely Jabbar, Jordan (4 times) in the 70-71 season and O'Neal in the 99-00 season. If Alexander can get FMVP, he will become the fourth person in history.

After entering the 21st century, no scoring champion has ever won the championship. The last scoring champion to win the championship was O'Neal in 2000, who eventually defeated the Pacers in the finals and won his first championship. Alexander is also expected to defeat the Pacers in the finals this season, winning his first career championship, becoming the first scoring champion to win the championship in 25 years.