The NBA will reveal this season’s MVP award winner Sunday, which just happens to be the day before Game 1 of the Western Conference title series between the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder and the second-seeded San Antonio Spurs.
Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the 2025 MVP, and the former prep standout for Chattanooga’s Hamilton Heights Christian Academy is one of the three finalists for the award this season — along with centers Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs and Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, who were seeded third in the West but were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
Amazon Prime Video announced that it would reveal the MVP winner during its pregame show Sunday, which starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern.
No matter who wins, it will be the eighth consecutive season in which a player who was born outside the U.S. takes the MVP trophy.
This international run of MVPs started with the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (born in Greece, of Nigerian descent) in 2019 and 2020, then Jokic (Serbia) in 2021 and 2022, the Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid (born in Cameroon but has since become a U.S. citizen) in 2023, Jokic again in 2024 and Gilgeous-Alexander (Canada) last year.