Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won his second consecutive NBA MVP award on Sunday morning, taking 83 first-place votes from the league’s global panel of 100 voters. Nikola Jokić finished second, while Luka Dončić placed fourth with 250 voting points.
The final tally settled a race that had been building for months and left little doubt about the top of the ballot. Jokić finished with 634 voting points and Victor Wembanyama was listed ahead of Dončić in the voting totals, while Cade Cunningham and Jaylen Brown rounded out the top six behind him.
Dončić’s place in the final vote also lands alongside a season that again put his production under a bright light. He was cited for 27.9 points, 5.7 assists and 4.5 rebounds, while playing 65 games. He attempted 6.8 shots per game from beyond the arc, shot 38.7 percent on those attempts and finished the year with 30-plus points in 34 games. His team also finished 42-40, a record that shaped how voters weighed individual dominance against overall results.
That balance has become a familiar part of the MVP conversation whenever Dončić and Jokić are in the mix. Jokić, who won the award in 2023-24, has finished first or second in MVP voting every year since 2020-21, a streak that shows how firmly he has stayed in the center of the league’s yearly debate. This time, though, the race belonged to Gilgeous-Alexander, whose 939 voting points put him comfortably ahead of the field.
The rest of the ballot offered a few small surprises at the margins. Kawhi Leonard received one fifth-place vote and Donovan Mitchell received one fifth-place vote, reminders that the final board is often broader than the top names that dominate the conversation. For Dončić, the result leaves him fourth in a field that included Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokić and Wembanyama above him, a place that reflects both his standing and the standard required to climb higher.
