{"id":667581,"date":"2026-03-19T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/667581\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:50:19","slug":"victor-wembanyama-rises-to-no-2-on-nba-coms-mvp-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/667581\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama rises to No. 2 on NBA.com\u2019s \u2018MVP Ladder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 As the 2025-26 NBA regular season winds down, the race for league Most Valuable Player is intensifying. San Antonio Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama is considered among the favorites to take home the award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">NBA.com\u2019s MVP Ladder currently lists Wembanyama at No. 2, just behind Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, which the website considers the current favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The French native moved up two spots on the ladder, which forced Denver Nuggets center Nikola Joki\u0107 to be bumped down to No. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This season, the MVP race has mostly centered on Gilgeous-Alexander and Joki\u0107. However, what Wembanyama and the Spurs are doing cannot be overlooked. Dating back to Feb. 1, San Antonio has won 19 of its last 21 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Entering Thursday, Wembanyama is averaging 26.6 points, 11 rebounds and 3.8 blocks in nine March games. He has dominated on both ends of the court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio is gaining on Oklahoma City in the Western Conference. The Thunder is 3.5 games in front of the Spurs for the top spot out West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Gilgeous-Alexander recently broke the NBA record for consecutive 20-point games, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s 63\u2011year-old mark of 126 consecutive games. Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s streak stands at 130 straight games, a major reason <a href=\"https:\/\/NBA.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/NBA.com\">NBA.com<\/a> put him at the top of its list. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wembanyama is attempting to become just the third Spur to win MVP. David Robinson won the award in 1995. Tim Duncan, a two-time winner, took home MVP honors in 2002 and 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More recent San Antonio Spurs coverage on KSAT: <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 As the 2025-26 NBA regular season winds down, the race for league Most Valuable Player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6537,6,969,474,4075,4074,534,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-667581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ksat-sports-now","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sanantoniospurs","15":"tag-spurs","16":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116258054094713809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}