How in the world is Tatum an MVP candidate when he continuously gets more and more help every year. He is a great individual player but he does not elevate his teammates IMO
Where’s Giannis? 👀. I guess a 40 point double double average the past week doesn’t qualify for top 5 🤡
I have a feeling voters will find a reason to feel bad for Embiid and just give it to him.
Jokic hasn’t had less than 22 points OR 10 rebounds in a game this season. His consistency is unmatched.
SGA has been turning up but man has everybody on this list been doing it too.
Stats of the top 5 on the list:
Jokic: 30/14/8 on 65.4% TS, 3.5 TOs, 9-2 team record
Luka: 31/8/8 on 64.0% TS, 4.4 TOs, 9-3 team record
Embiid: 32/12/6 on 61.4% TS, 3.7 TOs, 8-3 team record
Tatum: 28/9/4 on 64.0% TS, 2.7 TOs, 9-2 team record
SGA: 29/6/6 on 60.6% TS, 2.3 TOs, 8-4 team record
It’s weird a guy who can hardly jump is the best rebounder.
Last year SGA has the most FT’s made. In retribution the refs won’t call a thing this year
Shai is doing the one thing people wanted to see and that’s winning, glad to see it payoff in the MVP rankings. His defense and playmaking has taken the leap.
Ive already begun to shift agendas w/ Bam in the top 10
MVP > DPOY
Can we not with this… we’re not even 1/4 of the way through the season
What a bunch of monsters all these guys are. I used to say the NBA would be boring when Bron, Steph and leave, but it sure as fuck looks like it’s in great hands.
I can’t see Jokic losing this one
Disrespect to Tyrese Haliburton. Averaging nearly 25 points, 12.5 assists, and 4 rebounds on 67.7% TS, only 2.1 turnovers per game, and the Pacers are 7-4 but the loss to Boston he didn’t play and they got blown out.
He’s also 2nd in BPM only behind Jokic and historically, the MVP winner is usually 1st or 2nd in this stat. Last 3 guys to not be top 2 in BPM and win MVP were Rose (3rd), Kobe and Nash.
I’m kinda shocked he’s not a top 5 candidate right now. If he carries a supporting cast of Myles Turner, Benedict Mathurin, Obi Toppin and Bruce Brown to a top 4 seed (3 of these guys were solid bench players last year), he absolutely has to be in the conversation.
Where Giannis
Well now hang on Giannis is pretty good but he’s no Tyrese Maxey or Domantas Sabonis
My list:
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Jokic
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Luka
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Skylar Mays
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SGA
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Tatum
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Ant will probably see a dip after this week, but it would be crazy to see him break the top five this season.