Hoops Tonight - Mid-season NBA Awards: SGA-Jokic-Cade MVP race, Wemby vs. Chet DPOY, All-NBA teams, 6th man & more
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Jason gives his mid-season NBA awards and discusses how the league's 65-game rule will impact the results. He breaks down the three-headed race for MVP between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC Thunder), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets), and Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons), as well as the Defensive Player of the Year race between Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs) and Chet Holmgren (Oklahoma City Thunder), the races for Coach of the Year, Most Improved, Sixth Man of the Year, and All-NBA teams including players such as Luka Doncic (Los Angeles Lakers) and Steph Curry (Golden State Warriors).
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| 0:19.8 | All right. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to Hips tonight here at the volume. Happy Tuesday, everybody. |
| 0:22.9 | Hope all of you guys are having an incredible start to your week. As promised, today we're |
| 0:26.6 | going to be checking in on our NBA awards, a little mid-season check-in. The only one we're not |
| 0:32.3 | going to hit today is rookie of the year because I would like to hit that one in more detail |
| 0:36.4 | tomorrow. I want to do like a deep scout of the guys that have had their first season in the NBA this year. And look at it, not just as a view of the award, because I think Cooper Flag is most likely going to win it, but I want to dive into some of the specifics of each player more as we talk about their development. So I want to spend a whole episode on that. So today, we're just going to rip through all the awards, top to bottom, going to go over some best bets, who I think's going to win. It's going to be a fun one. You guys know the Joe before we started. Subscribe to the Hoops tonight YouTube channels. You don't miss any more of our videos. Make sure you like this video and sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. Last but at least, if you want to get mailbag questions and drop them underneath our full episodes on YouTube, mailbag, |
| 1:12.5 | colon, write your question that helps me find them. We'll get |
| 1:15.6 | to them on Fridays throughout the rest of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. All |
| 1:20.1 | of our lines that we go over today are provided by our partner Hard Rock Bet. Starting with MVP, |
| 1:28.5 | current lines on Hard Rock Bet, |
| 1:30.3 | Shea is leading at minus 200. |
| 1:33.5 | Yokic in second place plus 300. |
| 1:36.4 | Big drop off from there. |
| 1:38.2 | Cade is in third place at plus 1,400. |
| 1:41.9 | And Luca in fourth place at plus 2,000. |
| 1:46.0 | I think Shaggild is a Alexander is clearly the MVP at this point. I'm not surprised. |
| 1:52.2 | He's favored. He's averaging 32 points per game on 67% true shooting this season. To give you guys some perspective, |
| 2:00.0 | unanimous MVP Steph |
| 2:01.6 | averaged 30 points per game on actually a tiny bit lower efficiency. He was at 66.9% |
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