{"id":493612,"date":"2026-04-20T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493612"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:56:42","slug":"nba-mvp-2026-finalists-wembanyama-gilgeous-alexander-and-jokic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-mvp-2026-finalists-wembanyama-gilgeous-alexander-and-jokic\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA MVP 2026 finalists: Wembanyama, Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"2225\">The race for the <strong data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1948\">2026 NBA MVP<\/strong> is now down to three names. The league has officially named <strong data-start=\"2009\" data-end=\"2030\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> of the <strong data-start=\"2038\" data-end=\"2059\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2061\" data-end=\"2088\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> of the <strong data-start=\"2096\" data-end=\"2121\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2127\" data-end=\"2143\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> of the <strong data-start=\"2151\" data-end=\"2169\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> as the finalists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2227\" data-end=\"2635\">For <strong data-start=\"2231\" data-end=\"2253\">Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong>, the reigning MVP, the nomination follows a season in which he averaged <strong data-start=\"2326\" data-end=\"2373\">31.1 points and 6.6 assists on 55% shooting<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"2375\" data-end=\"2389\">Wembanyama<\/strong> posted <strong data-start=\"2397\" data-end=\"2444\">25 points and 11.5 rebounds in 29.2 minutes<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"2452\" data-end=\"2461\">Jokic<\/strong> delivered <strong data-start=\"2472\" data-end=\"2519\">27.7 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.7 assists<\/strong>, becoming the first player ever to lead the NBA in both assists and rebounds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2637\" data-end=\"3009\">Among the other award finalists, Wembanyama is also up for <strong data-start=\"2696\" data-end=\"2728\">Defensive Player of the Year<\/strong>, Gilgeous-Alexander is a finalist for <strong data-start=\"2767\" data-end=\"2796\">Clutch Player of the Year<\/strong>, and the rookie finalists include <strong data-start=\"2831\" data-end=\"2878\">Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and VJ Edgecombe<\/strong>. The NBA said the winners of the regular-season awards will begin to be announced this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has announced the three finalists for the regular-season MVP award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":278632,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493612","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493612"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493612"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493612"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}