One of the biggest storylines from the 2025-26 NBA regular season was how close virtually every awards race was. We haven't seen an MVP race featuring five or six legitimate candidates in quite some ...

Shaun Powell reveals his Kia NBA Most Valuable Player selection to cap a thrilling race that marked the 2025-26 season. Shaun Powell In the 2025-26 season, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made history by ...

To mark the end of the 2025-26 regular season, NHL.com is running its fifth and final installment of the Trophy Tracker series this week. Today, we look at the race for the Hart Trophy, awarded ...

Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham are about to be All-NBA players and land on a lot of MVP ballots. The NBA and NBPA (the players’ union) together agreed that “taking into account the totality of the ...

The NBA's 65-game rule took several big names off the awards ballot this season, but Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Doncic got some relief when the NBA and NBPA accepted his Extraordinary ...

The NBA's Play-In Tournament might be underway, but the regular season is not a wrap. The end-of-season awards have yet to be handed out, and still there are major questions surrounding more than a ...

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a strong chance at repeating as MVP after leading the Thunder to the West's No. 1 seed for the third consecutive season. Joshua Gateley / Getty Images The league got the TV ...

Here's the good news: we've reached the end of the 2025-26 NBA season, and while All-NBA teams have been ravaged by the 65-game rule, the fields for the major individual awards were left mostly intact ...

If you’ve ever gotten an autograph from someone who has won an MVP Award, you know that -- until they make the Hall of Fame, anyway -- they love to sign their name with an “MVP” at the end. And why ...

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 ...

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander faced a near impossible task entering the 2025-26 season: Improve upon a historic MVP season to win yet another MVP while playing for the clear ...

When it became clear that Victor Wembanyama, who had been out since Monday with a rib contusion, was going to play Friday night, it was easy to assume he would play the minimum 20 minutes required for ...