It's Jokic. A literal triple double season. Jokic is top 5 in Scoring, Assisting and Rebounding and they are still gonna give the award to Shai. Jokic has a higher FG%, lower Free throws per game, higher true shooting percentage too. The difference in team ranking is not vast enough to not give Jokic the MVP, but oh well... Jokic provides more value to his team than Shai too. Take Shai out of that OKC team, they are still a decent sixth seed team. Take Jokic out, Nuggets are a11-12th team in the West at best...
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Well, the narratives boosted SGA's case as he kept okc afloat even while chet, his co-star, was injured. He also plays much more D than jokic, which is ironic for a guard to play more defense than a literal center. Also olc being the 1 seed boosts his case a lot, not to mention he isn't some bum, he's averaging 32, 5 and 6 on great efficiency.
So while Jokic has a solid argument, this is why SGA is in the lead rn.
I guess, but there's also the voters fatigue for Jokic. I wouldn't be opposed to him winning the mvp just based on the season he's having right now, but him winning last season was kinda bs. Forget sga, doncic got absolutely fcking robbed last season, it was criminal. Voters want any reason to give it to someone else.
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