MVP voting validated: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander outduels Luka Dončić in Game 4

Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished ahead of Dallas Mavericks star Luka Dončić in the regular-season Most Valuable Player race. The verdict Monday night: the voters got it right! The Oklahoma City Thunder are headed home all tied up, 2-2, in their best-of-seven series with the Dallas Mavericks, thanks to Gilgeous-Alexander's fourth-quarter heroics.

Dončić played the entire fourth quarter and was better at distributing the ball, picking up 7 of his 10 assists. But he crushed the Mavs' last hope at salvaging a win, missing the first of two free throws with 10 seconds left and OKC leading, 96-94. That forced Dallas to foul intentionally, a last-resort tactic that did not work, both Holmgren and Gilgeous-Alexander going 2 for 2 in the final seconds. The free-throw disparity extended beyond Dončić and SGA.

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