{"id":685185,"date":"2026-03-29T01:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:50:19","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-has-shai-gilgeous-alexander-as-his-2025-26-mvp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685185\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton has Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as his 2025-26 MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 28, 2026, 7:15 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

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After it looked like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander would lap the field for three-fourths of the 2025-26 regular season, in comes Victor Wembanyama. The seven-foot Titan has cast a shadow over the reigning MVP’s ambitions to win the award back-to-back years.<\/p>\n

In just the last few days, Wembanyama has caught up to Gilgeous-Alexander. Betting odds and national podcasts have suggested that it may be closer than most anticipated just a couple of weeks ago. The San Antonio Spurs being right behind the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> for the first seed is the biggest factor for that.<\/p>\n

Guess we’ll see how the last couple of weeks play out. I feel like if the Thunder grab the first seed, Gilgeous-Alexander should win the MVP award \u2014 maybe not by the comfortable margin most thought, but for sure ends up at the top again.<\/p>\n

With MVP being a hot-button topic, Tyrese Haliburton weighed in. He told the NBA’s Amazon Prime broadcast that he believes Gilgeous-Alexander should win the prestigious award. Of course, those two will forever be tied to the hip thanks to headlining the epic seven-game 2025 NBA Finals series.<\/p>\n

“I see there’s been a lot of conversation about it. My vote would for sure go to Shai back-to-back,” Haliburton said. “What Wemby is doing in San Antonio, I wouldn’t want to take away from that. But I would vote for Shai. I see the campaign that’s going for him.”<\/p>\n

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Haliburton has been out for the entire 2025-26 season. He sustained a torn Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. Playing through a calf strain, he understood the risk and still played through it \u2014 considering the all-time stakes.<\/p>\n

Nice to hear Haliburton campaign for Gilgeous-Alexander. Considering how close things have gotten, we’ll get more NBA figures’ opinions in the coming weeks about the award. You can count the guy Gilgeous-Alexander checked on after he won the Larry O’Brien trophy to be on his side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 28, 2026, 7:15 p.m. CT After it looked like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander would lap the field for three-fourths…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[72400,7,113,126,3866,6,114,30882,72482,72404,72467,72683,72444,72422,72484,72405,72485,72406,72791,72751,72403],"class_list":["post-685185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-sstssportsnbathunder","tag-sstsnokc-thunder","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagindiana-pacers","tag-taglarry-obrien","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagshai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtyrese-haliburton","tag-tagvictor-wembanyama","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116309960251665309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685185","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=685185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}