Shai Gilgeous-Alexander completed second in MVP voting a season in the past.
This season, Anthony Edwards thinks that will be one spot too low. Here’s what Edwards advised Tim MacMahon of ESPN.
“The MVP of the NBA,” Edwards advised ESPN…
“I do not know if they may give it to [Jokic] once more,” stated Edwards, who had 20 factors within the loss. “Yeah, I’d say Shai. Yeah, he is wanting just like the MVP, man. He was unbelievable as soon as once more tonight.
“He is constant each evening. His crew gonna give him the ball and simply let him rock out each evening. It is nothing to consider. ‘Hey, get Shai the ball and he going to get busy, after which we’ll determine it out after that.’ I really like watching that. It is unbelievable, man. If he’s preserving him like that, I hope they offer [MVP] to him this 12 months for positive. I really feel like he ought to have received it final 12 months, however he is enjoying out his thoughts proper now.”
SGA has a severe MVP case: 31.3 factors, 6 assists and 5.5 rebounds a sport, taking pictures 35% from three, plus defender, and one of the best participant on the No. 1 crew within the West.
Quite a lot of followers — pushed by ESPN — like to trace the MVP race like a horse race or a political marketing campaign, and in the primary straw ballot of the season, Gilgeous-Alexander was second within the voting, trailing solely three-time MVP Nikola Jokic (with Giannis Antetokounmpo shut behind). It is honest to ask if Jokic will face voter fatigue, and if the Nuggets getting bounced within the second spherical of the playoffs final season will affect voters on the finish of the season (though that is additionally when SGA and his Thunder had been eradicated).
There’s nonetheless 60% of the NBA season rermaining for the MVP race to shake out, however we all know who Anthony Edwards desires to see win.
