An electric regular season is nearing its end, which means two things:
1) We’re about to flow into an even crazier postseason, and 2) it’s time to put the finishing touches on award races.
Chief among them is the MVP award, the NBA’s most prestigious regular-season honor. There have been plenty of great individual campaigns this season, but the MVP race has largely dropped to a four-player group: the reigning winner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, a multi-time winner in Nikola Jokić, and a pair of megastars in Victor Wembanyama and Luka Dončić hunting for their first.
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This week, I’m breaking down the cases for all of them — or at least I planned to before Dončić suffered a hamstring injury that may make him ineligible for any awards. This series is less about who I thinkshouldwin — I revealed that onFriday’s episode of The Dunker Spot— and more about helping others either bolster their arguments for their favorite candidate, or understand the legitimacy of the other cases.
After examining theJokić caseon Tuesday andSGA on Thursday, we’re going to talk about Wemby today.
Let’s dig in, shall we?
All stats are updated through games played on April 10.