NBA Awards Schedule 2026: When Will MVP Be Announced?

The awards rollout is here.

Spurs center Victor Wembanyama is a finalist for the 2025-26 MVP award. | Scott Wachter-Imagn Images

It's hard to believe that the 2025-26 NBA season is nearing its conclusion ... but, as the roll-out of end-of-season awards always suggests, this year's campaign is heading towards its grand finale.

On April 19, the league revealed the finalists for its major accolades, like Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of the Year and more. Plenty of those prizes came in throughout April, which means all that's left to award at this point is MVP, Coach of the Year and Social Justice Champion.

Below, let's take a quick look at the awards that have already come in, plus the information we know about the timing of the rest:

2025-26 NBA awards announcement schedule: What we know

The NBA announced the winners of awards such as Defensive Player of the Year, Clutch Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year on a rolling basis throughout April.

As of this writing, the only awards left to announce are Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year and Social Justice Champion. In the early hours of May 16, the league announced that MVP would be announced on NBA on Prime on Sunday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. ET.

The MVP finalists are: Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nuggets center Nikola Jokić and Spurs center Victor Wembanyama.

You can find the full schedule as announced, plus the winners of each award as revealed, listed below:

Award	Date	Time	Channel	Winner
Defensive Player of the Year	April 20	6 p.m. ET	Peacock, NBC Sports	Victor Wembanyama
Clutch Player of the Year	April 21	6 p.m. ET	Peacock, NBC Sports	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Sixth Man of the Year	April 22	6 p.m. ET	ESPN	Keldon Johnson
Sportsmanship Award	April 23	12 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	Derrick White
Most Improved Player	April 24	6:30 p.m. ET	Amazon Prime	Nickeil Alexander-Walker
Rookie of the Year	April 27	7 p.m. ET	Peacock, NBC Sports	Cooper Flagg
Executive of the Year	April 28	1 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	Celtics' Brad Stevens
Teammate of the Year	April 29	1 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	DeAndre Jordan
Hustle Award	April 30	1 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	Moussa Diabaté
MVP	May 17	7:30 p.m. ET	Prime	TBD

What about the rest of the awards?

Although we now have a date for MVP, we do not yet have specific announcement dates for Coach of the Year or Social Justice Champion.

Last season, Coach of the Year winner Kenny Atkinson was announced on May 5, 2025. This year, the delay might have something to do with the fact that two of the three finalists—J.B. Bickerstaff and Mitch Johnson—are still in the middle of the postseason. The Cavaliers were still playing when Atkinson was announced in 2024-25, but the teams of the other two finalists had already been eliminated at that point.

On Friday, the NBA announced that Miami's Bam Adebayo, San Antonio's Harrison Barnes, Boston's Jaylen Brown, Detroit's Tobias Harris and Cleveland's Larry Nance Jr. had been selected as finalists for the Social Justice Champion award. Although we don't know exactly when, the winner of that prize will be announced during the upcoming conference finals.

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