NBA Awards Schedule: When Will the Winners Be Announced for the 2024–25 Season?

The winners of this year's NBA end-of-season awards will be announced over the coming weeks.

Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander are the top two MVP candidates for this season / Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images

Everything to know about the NBA end-of-season awards

1. NBA Awards Schedule
2. When will the NBA MVP be announced?
3. NBA Awards Finalists
4. NBA Awards Winners
5. More NBA on Sports Illustrated

The 2024–25 NBA season was a great one filled with memorable performances, enjoyable storylines, blockbuster trades and long stretches of dominance from the top teams in both conferences. It is also over. Every team played 82 games by Sunday, April 11 and the playoffs kicked off this past weekend on Saturday, April 19.

That means it is time for the league to look back upon this past season and reward the very best performers. Over the opening weeks of the playoffs the NBA will slowly roll out all the end-of-season award ceremonies and announce the winners of the prestigious annual hardware given out to the top players of the season—ranging from newer awards like the hustle award to tried-and-true accolades used in Hall of Fame discussions like Most Valuable Player and All-NBA teams.

After the opening weekend of this year's playoffs the NBA announced the schedule for the first few awards, with more to follow. Here's what the rollout looks like so far.

NBA Awards Schedule

From April 22 to April 25, the NBA announced the winners for four of the end-of-season awards: the Sixth Man of the Year, the Clutch Player of the Year, the Defensive Player of the Year and the Hustle award.

On April 27, the league announced its schedule for the next rollout of awards: the Teammate of the Year, the Rookie of the Year, Most Improved Player, and the Sportsmanship award. Stretching from Monday, April 28 to Thursday, May 1, those awards were handed out.

Starting on May 5 the Coach of the Year, Basketball Executive of the Year, and the Social Justice Champion award were handed out.

On Tuesday, May 20, the All-Rookie teams were announced.

When will the NBA MVP be announced?

The winner of the 2024-25 NBA MVP award will be announced on Wednesday, May 21. The finalists are Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic, and Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo.

NBA Awards Finalists

A full list of the NBA awards finalists can be found here.

NBA Awards Winners

So far the NBA has handed out four end-of-season awards and held brief ceremonies for each deserving winner. Below you'll find a full list of every winner for those awards, which will be updated as more are announced.

AWARD	WINNER
Sixth Man of the Year	Payton Pritchard, Boston Celtics
Defensive Player of the Year	Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers
Clutch Player of the Year	Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks
Hustle Award	Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
Rookie of the Year	Stephon Castle, San Antonio Spurs
Teammate of the Year	Steph Curry, Golden State Warriors
Most Improved Player	Dyson Daniels, Atlanta Hawks
Coach of the Year	Kenny Atkinson, Cleveland Cavaliers
Executive of the Year	Sam Presti, Oklahoma City Thunder
Social Justice Champion	Jrue Holiday, Boston Celtics

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