Who won Finals MVP in 2025? Full voting results, stats, list of NBA award winners

A new NBA champion has been crowned.

With the Thunder taking down the Pacers in Sunday's Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals, they secured their first title since the franchise moved from Seattle for the 2008-09 season. Oklahoma City is bringing home the Larry O'Brien trophy following a back-and-forth series with Indiana that went the distance.

While the Thunder had plenty of significant contributors on their run to the 2024-25 championship, only one player could earn the Bill Russell Finals MVP. 

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Who ended up securing the prestigious honor, given to the most outstanding player in each NBA Finals? Here's what to know about the 2025 Finals MVP.

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Who won NBA Finals MVP?

The 2024-25 MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, added yet another trophy to his collection. 

After leading the league in scoring in the regular season, paving the way for the Thunder to win 68 games while winning his first MVP award, Gilgeous-Alexander joined the exclusive list of NBA stars to win Finals MVP.

In fact, Gilgeous-Alexander joined an even more select club by securing his second MVP award of the season: He became the 11th player in NBA history to win a league MVP award and Finals MVP in the same season. That feat was most recently accomplished by LeBron James in 2012-13, and it's now happened a total of 17 times.

Over seven NBA Finals games, Gilgeous-Alexander averaged 30.3 points, 5.6 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game, including four 30-plus-point outings. In Game 7, he led the way in closing out the Pacers by posting 29 points, 12 assists and five rebounds. Gilgeous-Alexander was far more than Oklahoma City's go-to scorer throughout the series, though — his defensive instincts were on display in all seven games, and in Game 4, he led the way for a Thunder comeback with some clutch shots.

Gilgeous-Alexander is now an MVP, NBA champion, and Finals MVP, capping one of the best individual seasons in league history. 

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2025 Finals MVP voting

Gilgeous-Alexander received all 11 Finals MVP votes from media members. You can find the full collection of media members that voted on the 2025 Finals MVP below:

Why is Finals MVP named after Bill Russell?

The NBA's Finals MVP award has been named after Bill Russell since 2009. Russell, a longtime Boston Celtic, has the most championships won by any player in NBA history: 11.

But because Russell played in the earlier days of the league before the Finals MVP award was even created, he never received the honor. In the same year he won his final championship as a player, 1969, the Finals MVP was introduced to the NBA. The Lakers' Jerry West won Finals MVP that season despite his team losing to Boston in the series, marking the only time a losing player has won the award.

While Russell never got the chance to win a Finals MVP himself, the award being re-named in his honor helps keep his legacy within the NBA alive.

Complete history of Finals MVPs winners

Gilgeous-Alexander becomes the first player in the history of the Thunder franchise to win a Finals MVP award. Dennis Johnson won Finals MVP for the Seattle SuperSonics in 1979, but that was long before the team moved to Oklahoma City.

You can find the complete list of Finals MVPs below.