Jokic beaten for 71 votes at 29: the Thunder guard becomes the second Canadian to be elected best player of the regular season after Steve Nash
New York, May 22nd. In the highly anticipated race to the MVP prize, at the end the tick, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Which has the upper hand on Nikola Jokic with a more clear waste than expected. 71 of the 100 votersin fact, they put the Canadian first and to the second of the Serbian, with Jokic who collected 29 preferences as number one of the ranking. A clear two -way run in a season of a very high level for individual performance that even makes the incredibly productive vintage from Giannis Antetokounmpo ranked, decidedly distanced, third.
The numbers of the MVP
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The 26 year old leader of Okc, a team that dominated the Regular Season conquering the beauty of 68 wins in the season, closed with crazy numbers: 32.7 points (Best Marker of the NBA), also pulling with an excellent 51.9% from the field, 6.4 assists, 5.0 rebounds, 1.7 recovery and 1.0 medium stubbles becoming only the second player in the history of the League, After a Michael Jordanto put on the scoresheet, pulling 50% from the field, at least 30 points, five rebounds, five assists, 1.5 recovery and an average stop. Gilgeous-Alexander becomes the Second Canadian, after Steve Nash To conquer the MVP prize and the third player of the Thunder (Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook the other two). The “international” trend continues in 2025 and for the seventh consecutive year the elected basketball player Most Valuable Player of the NBA was not born in the States. The last American to win the highly coveted prize therefore remains James Harden in 2018. “I am incredibly happy – underlines the Canadian – I dream of this type of child prizes, it is difficult not to get excited when these satisfactions arrive. I worked very hard to get to play these levels but honestly I would never have thought I could win the MVP”.