Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been voted the 2025-26 NBA Most Valuable Player. He secures the award for the second consecutive season. ESPN’s Shams Charania reported the voting results Sunday morning. The league is scheduled to officially broadcast the announcement at 7:30 p.m. ET tonight on Prime Video.
The 27-year-old point guard anchored the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 64-18 regular-season record. This gave Oklahoma City the best mark in the NBA for the second year running.
Gilgeous-Alexander delivered a dominant statistical campaign. He averaged 31.1 points and 6.6 assists while shooting a career-high 55.3% from the floor. He also led the league in clutch points with 175 and a clutch plus-minus of , earning him the 2025-26 NBA Clutch Player of the Year honors according to a breakdown of his regular-season statistical milestones. He is the first player since Michael Jordan to average at least 30 points per game across four consecutive seasons.
Winning the trophy again places him in rare company. Gilgeous-Alexander is just the 14th player in NBA history to win back-to-back MVP awards. He is the first guard to achieve consecutive wins since Stephen Curry did it in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. Every retired player in the exclusive history of consecutive MVP winners has eventually been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic and San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama finished as the runners-up for the award. The MVP news sets the stage for a high-stakes playoff series. Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder host Wembanyama’s Spurs in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals starting Monday night in Oklahoma City.