{"id":354993,"date":"2026-03-24T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/354993\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:36:08","slug":"victor-wembanyama-is-making-a-case-to-be-the-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/354993\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama is making a case to be the MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victor Wembanyama is making his case to be the 2025-26 Kia MVP.<\/p>\n

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama is making it clear: He wants to win the NBA\u2019s MVP award this season.<\/p>\n

The San Antonio star \u2014 moments after his team officially clinched its first Southwest Division title in nine seasons \u2014 detailed some elements of his MVP case on Monday night after the red-hot\u00a0Spurs beat the Miami Heat 136-111<\/a>\u00a0for their 22nd win in their last 24 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have thought about it,\u201d Wembanyama said. \u201cI think right now there is a debate. There should be, even though I think I should lead the race. I\u2019m trying to make sure that at the end of the season, there\u2019s no debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.0 blocked shots per game. Only six players have finished a season with such numbers \u2014 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it five times, Hakeem Olajuwon did it twice, while Shaquille O\u2019Neal, Patrick Ewing and David Robinson all did it once.<\/p>\n

The sixth player on that list? That would be Wembanyama, who did all that last season as well, albeit in only 46 games.<\/p>\n

The reigning MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder, is the overwhelming favorite to win the trophy again according to BetMGM Sportsbook. Next on the BetMGM list: the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Luka Doncic. Wembanyama is next, with the third-best odds as of Monday, one spot ahead of Denver\u2019s Nikola Jokic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama is making his case to be the 2025-26 Kia MVP. MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,147766,105,104782],"class_list":["post-354993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mvp","tag-sports","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}