Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been named the 2023 recipient of the Northern Star Award.
The annual award, previously generally known as the Lou Marsh Trophy, is given to Canada’s athlete of the yr based mostly on votes from members of the media.
Gilgeous-Alexander led Group Canada to a historic bronze-medal end on the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
Within the means of doing so, the lads’s basketball crew additionally certified for the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics, their first Olympic berth since 2000.
Final NBA season, he averaged 31.4 factors per recreation together with 5.5 assists and 4.8 rebounds with the Thunder and was named an All-Star for the primary time in his skilled profession.
In 20 video games this season, Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging a crew excessive 30.5 factors per recreation, sixth finest within the NBA. He was named to the distinguished All-NBA first crew after the 2022-23 marketing campaign.
The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder level guard beat Nick Taylor, who this yr turned the primary Canadian in 69 years to win his nationwide open, swimmer Summer season McIntosh, hammer thrower Camryn Rogers and Connor McDavid of the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers for the award.
Previous winners embrace Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies (2020) former U.S. Open tennis champion Bianca Andreescu (2019) and adorned Olympic swimmer Penny Oleksiak (2016).
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was born in Toronto, and grew up in Hamilton. His mom, Charmaine Gilgeous, is a former monitor athlete who competed for Antigua and Barbuda on the 1992 Summer season Olympics. His father, Vaughn Alexander, coached him as a youth.
