NBA MVP 2025: Who will win between Jokic and SGA?

It is about to be seen who will be the MVP of the regular NBA season, but the consensus is that it will be Jokic for the fourth time or SGA for the first time.

The NBA playoffs offer the most important stage for the league stars to leave their mark. This is not clearer this season than with the two main candidates for the most valuable player award (MVP), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, facing the second round of the West Conference.

Both have been fighting in the MVP race all season, so it would make sense that their teams, Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets, will find themselves while pursuing the maximum objective of the NBA, the Larry O’Brien trophy.

Despite the fanfare around the confrontation, the MVP is a prize of the regular season, and both players registered memorable seasons, each in their unique way.

Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder, with 68 wins, to be the first sown of the West, averaging 32.7 points per game, League leader, in addition to 5.0 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game with 51.9% of success in field shots. Oklahoma City finished 16 games ahead of the second sown, Houston Rockets, in the regular season, in one of the most impressive gusts of recent times.

Meanwhile, Jokic was possibly signing his best statistical season, guiding the Nuggets until he was the fourth sown of the West. He averaged a triple-double this season, ending the regular season with averages of 29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 assists. To win the award, it would be his fourth MVP in five seasons and would become one of the five players in the NBA history to get the MVP four times.

The Milwaukee Bucks star, Giannis Antetokounmpo, completes the list of finalists to the MVP after averaging 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists this season.

The final unofficial survey of MVP and the vote of the NBA reporter Tim Bontemps reveal that, although it is a close race, Gilgeous-Alexander had a slight advantage at the end of the regular season.

NBA MVP finalists 2025

Shai gilgeous-alxander | Ship owner | Oklahoma City Thunder
76 games | 32.7 ppj | 5 rpj | 6.4 APJ

Nikola Jokic | Center | Denver Nuggets
70 games | 29.6 ppj | 12.7 rpj | 10.2 APJ

Giannis Antetokounmppo | Eaves | Milwaukee Bucks
67 games | 30.4 ppj | 11.9 rpj | 6.5 APJ

Tim Bontemps MVP elections

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks

Almost all seasons, there are several candidates worthy of the MVP. And this year, the contest was decided on the last day between Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic, the two best players in the league, who have had incredible seasons.

The Thunder, thanks to the 32.7 points per game of Gilgeous-Alexander, leader of the League, with 51.9% of success in field shots, became the seventh team in the NBA history to win at least 68 games. Jokic, of course, had a historical statistical season, ending in the top three at points (29.6), rebounds (12.7) and assists (10.2), with 57.6% of success in field shots and 41.7% in triples. A real madness at video game height!

While alternating between Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic during the last weeks, this appointment of the Nuggets coach, Michael Malone, who was already fired, has been spinning in my head: “If they didn’t know that Nikola won three MVP, and I put the player A and player B on paper … He wins 10 out of 10 times,” Malone said last month.

“And if they don’t believe it, they say pure nonsense.”

Unofficial survey for NBA 3.0 MVP

In mid-February, the second of the three unofficial Sesses of AM850 about the most valuable player in the NBA showed that the Oklahoma City Thunder escort, Shai Gilgeous-Alxander, had a comfortable advantage, if not iron, over the Denver Nuggets, Nikola Jokic pivot.

Six weeks later, the race has practically not changed.

If the results of our latest informal survey are precise (they have been in each of the last five seasons), Gilgeous-Alexander will raise with its first MVP prize. And in a survey that reflects the official vote of the League and was held for 24 hours on Sunday and Monday, Gilgeous-Alexander obtained 77 of the 100 votes for the first place.

He finished second in the remaining 23 votes with a total of 931 points, while Jokic finished with 769. After the two stars received all but one of the first and second place votes in the second round of surveys in February, this edition was a clean sweep, something that had not happened in the 19 previous ex-extremecutorial surveys made since the beginning of the 2016-17 season.

That domain at the top of the vote goes hand in hand with what both players have demonstrated on the court.

Despite Gilgeous-Alexander’s advantage, Jokic is perhaps presenting his best case to be the MVP.