{"id":603495,"date":"2026-04-24T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:11:09","slug":"kia-mvp-ladder-tracker-week-by-week-updates-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603495\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia MVP Ladder Tracker: Week-by-week updates for 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finishes at No. 1 in the final edition of Shaun Powell\u2019s Kia MVP Ladder.<\/p>\n

NBA.com\u2019s Shaun Powell breaks down the Kia NBA MVP race every Friday during the season with his weekly ranking in the Kia MVP Ladder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Look back at how the Top 5 ranking has evolved this season.<\/p>\n

Week
\n1st
\n2nd
\n3rd
\n4th
\n5th<\/p>\n

Week 25<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nWembanyama
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 24<\/a>
\nWembanyama
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 23<\/a>
\nWembanyama
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 22<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nWembanyama
\nJoki\u0107
\nCunningham<\/p>\n

Week 21<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nWembanyama
\nJoki\u0107
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nCunningham<\/p>\n

Week 20<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nCunningham
\nWembanyama
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 19<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nCunningham
\nWembanyama
\nDon\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n

Week 17<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nCunningham
\nWembanyama<\/p>\n

Week 16<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nJoki\u0107
\nCunningham
\nWembanyama<\/p>\n

Week 15<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nJoki\u0107
\nWembanyama
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 14<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nWembanyama
\nMaxey<\/p>\n

Week 13<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nJoki\u0107
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nWembanyama
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 12<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nBrown
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nWembanyama<\/p>\n

Week 11<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nBrunson
\nWembanyama<\/p>\n

Week 10<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nBrunson
\nCunningham<\/p>\n

Week 9<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nBrunson
\nCunningham<\/p>\n

Week 8<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nCunningham
\nBrown<\/p>\n

Week 7<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nCunningham
\nAntetokounmpo<\/p>\n

Week 6<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nAntetokounmpo
\nCunningham<\/p>\n

Week 5<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nAntetokounmpo
\nCunningham<\/p>\n

Week 4<\/a>
\nJoki\u0107
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nAntetokounmpo
\nDon\u010di\u0107
\nWembanyama<\/p>\n

Week 3<\/a>
\nGilgeous-Alexander
\nAntetokounmpo
\nJoki\u0107
\nWembanyama
\nDon\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s Note: The first edition of the Kia MVP Ladder was released in Week 3, and there wasn\u2019t a Week 18 ranking due to the All-Star break.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finishes at No. 1 in the final edition of Shaun Powell\u2019s Kia MVP Ladder. NBA.com\u2019s Shaun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,156127,99],"class_list":["post-603495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-nba-mvp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}