The NBA has entered the era of international players domination, and local American players have fallen into MVP drought for seven consecutive seasons

The official official announced the candidate for the regular season MVP of the 2024-25 season, that is Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The outside world was quite peaceful about this result and there was no surprise. However, what surprised the outside world was that the regular season MVP has been monopolized by non-local American players since 2019. In the regular season game of the 2024-25 season, Alexander averaged 34.2 minutes per game, contributing 32.7 points, 5 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.7 steals per game to the team. The shooting percentage is 51.9%, the three-point shooting percentage is 37.5, and the free throw shooting percentage is 89.8%. In fact, the popular candidates for the regular season MVP this season are Alexander, Antetokounmpo and Jokic.

NBA has been in a row for seven consecutive seasons, and those who have won the regular season MVP are all non-Americans, which is quite surprising. It's not three to five years, but seven years. The last time a local American player won the regular season MVP was in 2018, when the elected was James Harden, who played for the Houston Rockets at the time.

Since then, the NBA has begun an era where international players monopolize MVP. The 2019 and 2020 regular season MVP is Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, the 2021 regular season MVP is Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, the 2023 regular season MVP is Embiid, the 2024 regular season MVP is Jokic, and the 2025 regular season MVP is Alexander.

International players ushered in an era of monopolizing the NBA. In the early 21st century, we can see that Steve Nash completed the MVP consecutive banker while playing for the Phoenix Suns. Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki also won the regular season MVP in 2007.

Under the leadership of Adam Xiaohua, the NBA is becoming more and more international. We can see that there are many great players in the NBA, all of whom are not local American players. For example, Alexander, Luka Doncic, Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Embiid, Markkanen and others are all famous international stars.

In fact, for Adam Xiaohua, the most important thing in the NBA is the international market, so he needs some international players to become one of the NBA's appearances. I hope they can provide some help when they develop the NBA market in the European market in the future. After all, it is reported that the NBA intends to build an affiliated league in Europe that belongs to the NBA.