After weeks of anticipation, basketball fans finally learned which player would win the 2025 NBA Most Valuable Player. But it was all very strange.

The 2024-25 NBA MVP award will be announced on May 21 at 4 p.m. MST on TNT, the NBA announced. Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver Nuggets big Nikola Jokic and Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo are the three finalists.

If Jokić wins, he would join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Michael Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five), Wilt Chamberlain (four) and LeBron James (four) as the only players in NBA history with four MVP trophies.

The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers have officially advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals. The series will broadcast on TNT.

Jokic winning a fourth would make him one of six players to win four or more MVPS, alongside names like LeBron James, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The NBA Finals will broadcast on ABC. ABC is available on many streaming services, including DIRECTV STREAM, Hulu + Live TV, fuboTV, and YouTube TV. You can also catch NBA Finals games with an over-the-air antenna that has access to a local broadcasting station.

In a sport dominated by soaring point totals, Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the NBA’s leading scorer and the best player on the league’s top team. What could be more “valuable?

The sun is setting on TNT’s coverage of live NBA games. At most, fans will be graced with seven more telecasts. At minimum? Just four. And as TNT prepares to say goodbye to the NBA, fans are preparing to say goodbye to the network’s lead NBA play-by-play announcer: Kevin Harlan.