{"id":441224,"date":"2025-05-08T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=441224"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:40:41","slug":"aba-liga-mckinley-wright-iv-named-mvp-of-the-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/aba-liga-mckinley-wright-iv-named-mvp-of-the-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Liga, McKinley Wright IV named MVP of the regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official \u2013 Budu\u0107nost VOLI star player\u00a0<strong>McKinley Wright<\/strong> is the 2024\/25 AdmiralBet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aba-liga.com\/news\/52933\/2024-25-regular-season-nlb-mvp-mckinley-wright\/\">ABA League<\/a> Regular Season NLB MVP, as won this title in the voting contest of the head coaches of AdmiralBet ABA League teams, journalists and the ABA League fans.<\/p>\n<p>The player, that has been voted the Most Valuable Player of the Regular Season for the second time in a row, will be the first to receive the Dejan Milojevi\u0107 Trophy, which is traditionally handed over to the Regular Season NLB MVP in every season since the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p>The excellent guard of the Podgorica side has finished the voting with a total of 39.1% combined votes, ahead of\u00a0<strong>Kenan Kamenja\u0161<\/strong>\u00a0of Budu\u0107nost VOLI, who had 26.8% and\u00a0<strong>Bryce Jones<\/strong>\u00a0of Igokea m:tel, who finished the voting with 23.9% of combined votes.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s mention that McKinley Wright was the best in all three votings, in the votings of head coaches of AdmiralBet ABA League teams, the journalists and fans, which makes his achievement even more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024\/25 season is the second for Wright in the ranks of Budu\u0107nost VOLI and a true breakthrough season as well. He led his team to the first place in the Regular Season by averaging 12.8 points, 2.4 rebounds, 4.9 assists, 1 steal and a valuation of 16, which was enough to convince the voters that he is worthy of the Dejan Milojevi\u0107 trophy for the 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n<p>In the traditional AdmiralBet ABA League voting for the Ideal Starting Five of the AdmiralBet ABA League season and the individual honours, the final results of the voting combines the votes of the head coaches of AdmiralBet ABA League teams (85% of the total voting results), the votes of fans (5% of the total voting results) and the votes of basketball journalists from the ABA League j.t.d. countries (10% of the total voting results).<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Regular Season MVP awards so far in the regional league:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>2014\/15 \u2013 Nikola Joki\u0107 (Mega Leks)<br \/>\n2015\/16 \u2013 Miro Bilan (Cedevita)<br \/>\n2016\/17 \u2013 Nikola Jankovi\u0107 (Union Olimpija)<br \/>\n2017\/18 \u2013 Luka \u017dori\u0107 (Cibona)<br \/>\n2018\/19 \u2013 Goga Bitadze (Budu\u0107nost VOLI)<br \/>\n2020\/21 \u2013 Filip Petru\u0161ev (Mega Soccerbet)<br \/>\n2021\/22 \u2013 Nikola Kalini\u0107 (Crvena zvezda mts)<br \/>\n2022\/23 \u2013 Luka Bo\u017ei\u0107 (Zadar)<br \/>\n2023\/24 \u2013 Luka Bo\u017ei\u0107 (Zadar)<br \/>\n2024\/25 \u2013 McKinley Wright (Budu\u0107nost VOLI)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are happy to present you the Ideal Starting Five of the 2024\/25 AdmiralBet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ABALiga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ABALiga<\/a> season!<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f Bryce Jones (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCIgokea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BCIgokea<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f McKinley Wright (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKBuducnostVOLI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KKBuducnostVOLI<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f Sterling Brown (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PartizanBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PartizanBC<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f Filip Petru\u0161ev (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kkcrvenazvezda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kkcrvenazvezda<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f Kenan Kamenja\u0161 (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKBuducnostVOLI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KKBuducnostVOLI<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W5aQnZb20F\">pic.twitter.com\/W5aQnZb20F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AdmiralBet ABA League (@ABA_League) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABA_League\/status\/1920478867128553607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Relive some of the stellar moments by the NLB MVP of the 2024\/25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ABALiga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ABALiga<\/a> Regular Season.<\/p>\n<p>McKinley Wright of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKBuducnostVOLI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KKBuducnostVOLI<\/a>, ladies and gentlemen! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D1sgGzRYML\">pic.twitter.com\/D1sgGzRYML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AdmiralBet ABA League (@ABA_League) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABA_League\/status\/1920457105401692588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKBuducnostVOLI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KKBuducnostVOLI<\/a> star player McKinley Wright has been voted the NLB MVP of the 2024\/25 AdmiralBet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ABALiga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ABALiga<\/a> Regular Season! Congratulations! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I1yjFQSUXS\">https:\/\/t.co\/I1yjFQSUXS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fnw0VCfx1A\">pic.twitter.com\/fnw0VCfx1A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AdmiralBet ABA League (@ABA_League) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABA_League\/status\/1920418029483036768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright IV led Buducnost to the first place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":441223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-441224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/mckinley-wright-mvp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441224"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=441224"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=441224"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=441224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}