The definitive MVP argument for Victor Wembanyama

Nekias DuncanSat, April 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC

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An electric regular season is nearing its end, which means two things:

1) We’re about to flow into an even crazier postseason, and 2) it’s time to put the finishing touches on award races.

Chief among them is the MVP award, the NBA’s most prestigious regular season honor. There have been plenty of great individual campaigns this season, but the MVP race has largely dropped to a four-player group: the reigning winner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, a multi-time winner in Nikola Jokić, and a pair of megastars in Victor Wembanyama and Luka Dončić hunting for their first.

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This week, I’m breaking down the cases for all of them — or at least I planned to before Dončić suffered a hamstring injury that may make him ineligible for any awards. This series is less about who I think should win — I revealed that on Friday’s episode of The Dunker Spot — and more about helping others either bolster their arguments for their favorite candidate, or understand the legitimacy of the other cases.

After examining the Jokić case on Tuesday and SGA on Thursday, we’re going to talk about Wemby today.

Let’s dig in, shall we?

All stats are through games played on April 10.

Tale of the tape

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