NBA MVP Race 2026: Ranking the Top 5 Candidates Right Now

Who will win NBA MVP? The 2025-26 NBA season is nearing its conclusion, with recent excellence from Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic shaking up the race. While it’s still largely a two-man battle right now, this year’s NBA MVP rankings will be very interesting.

With only a few weeks left in the regular season, let’s dive into our latest top five in the NBA MVP race today. 1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder Brad Penner-Imagn Images It takes absolute dominance from a star player on one of the league’s best teams to win back-to-back MVPs.

With the run Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is having down the stretch for the No. 1-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder , he should join Nikola Jokic (2021-22), Giannis Antetokounmpo (2019-20), and Stephen Curry (2014-16) as back-to-back NBA MVP winners. Win Shares per 48 Minutes, which is often a strong indicator of who’ll win MVP, sees Gilgeous-Alexander (.

333) leading Jokic (. 319) by a significant margin. Putting SGA’s WS/48 into perspective, it would be the second-highest ever in a single season, behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( .