{"id":617695,"date":"2026-04-19T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:29:09","slug":"2025-26-nba-awards-finalists-for-league-accolades-announced-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617695\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-26 NBA Awards: Finalists for league accolades announced tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2163901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nba-ball-general-view.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The finalists for the seven awards honoring top performers from the 2025-26 NBA regular season will be revealed on NBC tonight starting at 6 p.m. ET ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/orl-vs-det-0042500101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 1 of the Orlando Magic vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>The following award finalists will be announced during pregame:<\/p>\n<p>Kia NBA Clutch Player of the Year<br \/>\nKia NBA Defensive Player of the Year<br \/>\nKia NBA Most Improved Player<br \/>\nKia NBA Sixth Man of the Year<\/p>\n<p>The following award finalists will be announced during halftime of the Magic vs. Pistons game:<\/p>\n<p>Kia NBA Most Valuable Player<br \/>\nKia NBA Rookie of the Year<br \/>\nNBA Coach of the Year<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The finalists for seven awards honoring top performers from the 2025-26 NBA regular season will be revealed on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NBAonNBC<\/a> tonight starting at 6 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Pregame:<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fKia NBA Clutch Player of the Year<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fKia NBA Defensive Player of the Year<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fKia NBA Most Improved Player<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0fKia NBA\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1mHP2WaRR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/d1mHP2WaRR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2045904141533561153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finalists for the seven awards honoring top performers from the 2025-26 NBA regular season will be revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,299527,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-617695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-awards-2025-26","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}