The Historic 2025-26 MVP Race

Mind the Game

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Welcome back to Mind the Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash. This week we are talking NBA Awards, specifically the MVP. First, Steve talks to LeBron about the chemistry between Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and the rest of the Lakers roster prior to the injuries of their two big stars. They also talk about LeBron breaking the record for most wins by any NBA player ever. Then we get into the MVP conversation, doing a deep dive into the candidates, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Victor Wembanyama, Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic and why each guy has a legit case.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of Mind the Game, MVP is always you never know.
0:04.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:05.0	There's a lot of like narratives, storylines, all that stuff, but we have four guys that are worthy.
0:10.0	I'd love to hear from you, just your take on Luca.
0:14.0	I just think his level of comfortability now in the organization has allowed him to play free basketball.
0:20.0	What was your role in like allowing him to get comfortable? I just think it's simple. It's just not being an idiot. I would say my favorite for MVP is Shea. That's one of the things that I love about Shea is just, like, for him to play on the perimeter as much as he does, playing at mid-range as much as he does, and still be as super efficient as he is. Like you said, it's just kind of, it's Jordaness, for sure. Let's talk Yolkitch. I mean, he still puts up outrageous numbers, outrageous impact. He's kind of like a 30, 20, and 10 game. What are we talking about? 25, 24 and 15. What are we talking about?
0:56.2	And then let's talk about, you know,
0:59.0	what could possibly be the MVP for the next century or two.
1:04.1	For the next, for the next 100 million years.
1:08.6	Indefinitely, the alien Victor Limbaugh.
1:11.6	Yeah. Let's go.
1:37.8	Let's go to it.
1:39.8	13 to 1 last 14 games.
1:41.7	Man, pretty impressive what we're doing right now.
1:43.7	Yeah, we're playing good ball, man. Everybody's kind of just bought into what needs to be done to win ball games on both sides. You know, obviously at the beginning of the season and a little bit more than the beginning of the season, defensively we weren't really good. We were trying to figure out how we could, you know, use our personnel to our advantage.
2:01.2	And that's one of the most important things.
2:02.7	How can you get the most out of your personnel offensively or defensively?
2:05.9	You know, and, you know, I think it all started.
2:08.7	I think one episode we started talking about when we started playing zone.
2:13.2	You know, and when you play zone, that's the one thing, one thing that you have to do when you play zone is talk.
2:20.3	You cannot not talk.
2:21.3	You have to say, hey, runner coming or, you know, flash or, you know,
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