2026 NBA Awards: Full ballot, picks including Gilgeous-Alexander, Wembanyama race for MVP
The 65-game rule leaves some players out who otherwise would have gotten my vote.
For as long as the NBA has honored me by asking me to be one of the postseason award voters, each year there are a couple of awards that keep me up at night, trying to split hairs between players who all deserve recognition for monster years. For example, Third-Team All-NBA is always brutal. Some years it's the big ones, such as MVP.
This year I struggled more with Most Improved Player than other award on the board. What follows is my official ballot for the NBA's end-of-season awards. [Note, this ballot assumes that the league grants Luka Doncic's challenge and makes him eligible despite having played in 64 games, one short of the league threshold.
It would be some frighteningly bad PR for the league to say Doncic is out because he chose to fly to Slovenia for the birth of his child and missed a couple of games — the league is very sensitive to those kinds of image issues. ] NBA Most Valuable Player 1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder) 2.
Victor Wembanyama (Spurs) 3. Nikola Jokic (Nuggets) 4. Luka Doncic (Lakers) 5.
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