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NBA Announces Award Finalists, Including First-Time MVP Candidate Victor Wembanyama
- On Sunday, the NBA announced the MVP finalists for the 2025-26 season: Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokić, and San Antonio Spurs' Victor Wembanyama.
- Gilgeous-Alexander seeks back-to-back awards after winning last year, while Jokić pursues his fourth MVP in six years and Wembanyama earns his first finalist nomination.
- Gilgeous-Alexander averaged 31.1 points per game this season, Wembanyama led the NBA with 3.1 blocks per game, and Jokić became the first player in league history to lead in both rebounds and assists.
- Winners will be announced starting Monday throughout the playoffs, with the league revealing finalists for seven individual awards Sunday to maintain postseason attention.
- This finalist group ensures an international player will win the MVP award for the eighth consecutive year, continuing a trend that began in 2019.
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By César López, CNN en Español. The NBA's Most Valuable Player award will once again go to an international player. It seems to be becoming a tradition, and the league will award the prize to a non-American player for the eighth consecutive time. The exception could be Cameroonian-American Joel Embiid. This award has been dominated in recent years by two high-caliber figures in the league: Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo, while Victor Wem…
From the beginning of 1956 until 2017-2018, the NBA regular season MVP award was a private quota for American basketball. Throughout that period, only three foreign nationals managed to take precedence over nationals: the Nigerian Hakeem Olajuwon, the Canadian Steve Nash -on two occasions- and the German Dirk Nowitzki. Now, history has changed radically. The NBA announced the three players who opt for the award: the Canadian and current holder o…
Luka Doncic, top scorer of the season, has been out of the MVP race. The NBA announced the finalists this Sunday and there is no Slovenian.
The NBA has named three finalists for the MVP award, but the league's leading scorer, Luka Dončić, is not among them. The finalists are last year's MVP, Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Frenchman Victor Wembanyama, and three-time MVP, Serbian Nikola Jokić.
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