The NBA MVP MVP will seek to achieve double sauce in the final.
Oklahoma City and Indiana are in the middle of this year’s NBA finals, with Indy leading 2-1.
And it is not only the Larry O’Brien trophy on the line, but the MVP award of the Bill Russell final is too.
Will the MVP of the Shai Gilgeous-Alexander the scan of MVP complete? Let’s look at the probabilities in Draftkings Sportsbook as of June 12.
2025 NBA MVP finals
Shai Gilgeous -Alexander: -220 (bet $ 10 to earn $ 14.55 in total)
Tyrese Haliburton: +280 (bet $ 10 to win $ 38 in total)
Pascal Siakam: +900 (bet $ 10 to earn $ 100 in total)
Jalen Williams: +10000 (Bet $ 10 to win $ 1,010 in total)
Chet Holmgren: +10000 (bet $ 10 to earn $ 1,010 in total)
SGA-Los MVP-Reminas of the regular season favored to take the hardware home, just although their Thunder path in the series.
Only once, a player won the final MVP while playing on the losing team: the Lakers Jerry West in 1969.
In the NBA history, 10 players have won MVP of the regular season and final MVP. That list includes LeBron James (2012, 2013), Tim Duncan (2003), Shaquille O’Neal (2000), Hakeem Olajuwon (1994), Michael Jordan (1992, 1996, 1998), Magic Johnson (1987), Larry Bird (1984, 1986) (1971) and Willis Reed (1970).
As noted, Jordan achieved the feat four times, the most in the history of the League, followed by James and Bird, who did it twice.
However, SGA does Have a chans to make some history this year. It could become the first player in the NBA history to win MVP of the regular season, MVP at the end of the West Conference and MVP of the NBA finals.
The Johnson “Magic” Trophy Earvin (MVP of the West Finals) and the Larry Bird Trophy (MVP of the EAST finals) have only existed for four years, which means that Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar and others on the Winte James list).
Nikola Jokić approached more to achieve it in 2023, when he won the MVP of the Western Conference and the MVP of the NBA finals. However, Joel Embiid won regular seasonal MVP that year.
