NBA Awards Schedule 2026: Every Date We Know, Plus Our Best Guess at Those We Don't

It's hard to believe that the 2025-26 NBA season is nearing its conclusion ... but, as the roll-out of end-of-season awards always suggests, this year's campaign is heading towards its grand finale.

On April 19, the league revealed the finalists for its major accolades, like Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year and more. But what they didn't reveal, however, was when exactly they would announce the winners of those prizes.

Luckily, we got something of a schedule shortly after that ... but we'll still need to use our detective skills to deduce when a few of those bigger honors will be revealed.

Let's take a quick look at what we know so far:

2025-26 NBA awards announcement schedule: What we know

Early Saturday evening, the NBA released an announcement schedule for the following awards: Rookie of the Year, Basketball Executive of the Year, Teammate of the Year and the Hustle Award. The recipients for those five awards will be announced between April 27 and April 30, with one winner announced per day.

The upcoming roll-out follows last week's announcements around DPOY, Clutch Player of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, the Sportsmanship Award, and the Most Improved Player.

You can find the full announced schedule, plus the winners of each award as revealed, listed below:

Award	Date	Time	Channel	Winner
Defensive Player of the Year	April 20	6 p.m. ET	Peacock, NBC Sports	Victor Wembanyama
Clutch Player of the Year	April 21	6 p.m. ET	Peacock, NBC Sports	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Sixth Man of the Year	April 22	6 p.m. ET	ESPN	Keldon Johnson
Sportsmanship Award	April 23	12 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	Derrick White
Most Improved Player	April 24	6:30 p.m. ET	Amazon Prime	Nickeil Alexander-Walker
Rookie of the Year	April 27	7 p.m. ET	Peacock, NBC Sports	Cooper Flagg
Executive of the Year	April 28	1 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	Celtics' Brad Stevens
Teammate of the Year	April 29	1 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	DeAndre Jordan
Hustle Award	April 30	1 p.m. ET	@NBAPR	Moussa Diabaté

What about the rest of the awards?

As of this writing, we do not yet have announcement dates for Coach of the Year, Social Justice Champion, and, of course, MVP.

That said, we can use timelines of seasons past to better guess-timate when at least two of the still-unscheduled accolades (MVP and Coach of the Year) will come in.

Last season, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was announced as MVP on May 21, just ahead of Game 2 of the Western Conference finals. It stands to reason that this year's award will follow a similar timeline. And re: Coach of the Year, the 2024-25 winner—Cavs leader Kenny Atkinson—was announced on May 5, 2025. So again, this year's declaration will probably come around the same time.

That said, we promise you'll be the first to know if we hear otherwise.

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