It's time: The NBA will unveil this season's Most Valuable Player on Wednesday night.
The winner will be Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver's Nikola Jokic or Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo. It'll be the seventh consecutive time that a player born outside of the U.S. has won the award.
Antetokounmpo, of Greek and Nigerian descent, won in 2019 and 2020. Jokic, a Serbian, won in 2021, 2022 and 2024. And Philadelphia's Joel Embiid, who was born in Cameroon but since became a U.S. citizen, won the award in 2023.
This year's favorite, according to BetMGM Sportsbook, is Gilgeous-Alexander - the Canadian guard who won the league's scoring title this season and led the Thunder to an NBA-best 68-14 record.
Gilgeous-Alexander averaged 32.7 points, 6.4 assists and five rebounds per game, and is in line to win the award for the first time. He was fifth in the MVP voting in 2023 and second last season.