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The Denver Nuggets have the best player on Earth right now, and it may not even be close.
Nikola Jokic is coming off one of the most dominant campaigns in the history of the league, and while he has a ring and a Finals MVP trophy to show for it, it still feels like he was robbed of another award.
At least, that’s how Los Angeles Lakers star Austin Reaves feels.
In his recent appearance on the Full Send Podcast, the Arkansas native claimed that Jokic should’ve won MVP last season, adding that he didn’t get it because of voter’s fatigue (via NBA Central).
Austin Reaves says Nikola Jokic should’ve won MVP over Joel Embiid
“I think it was just voter’s fatigue.”
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No disrespect to Joel Embiid whatsoever, as he also had a remarkable campaign, but Jokic had better numbers than him in almost every regular and advanced stat, and was pretty close to being the first center to average a triple-double for a season, not to mention the fact that he was the best player on the best team in the Western Conference.
It feels like people didn’t want to vote for Jokic because that would’ve given him three MVPs, all of them consecutive, and that would’ve put him in a spot in this game’s history where they didn’t feel comfortable putting him.
But in reality, every year should exist in a vacuum, so last year’s voting results shouldn’t have any sort of effect on this year’s voting.
Even so, Jokic got the job done and the last laugh, cementing himself as a future first-ballot Hall of Famer with that historical postseason run and capping it off with the ultimate prize: the first championship in Nuggets history.
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