He did win the finals mvp last year is 4 in a row anyway

Lebron should've had 7-8 so whatevs.

he is show man he is not analist.he is eyes balls atracter.

Kenny is the brains of that trio, so what does that tell you?

Totally and that’s crazy. 1 month ago EVERYONE was hyping Luka. SGA was out of the convo. EVERYONE was saying Luka must have it!!!

Luka is White, he have big disadvantage, maybe he change his color

How good would the Knicks have been without Brunson? That is the real mvp or SGA. Both teams overperformed.

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@@joechan8549 ` Agreed, Jokic is black that is why he won three times.

Shaq overrated and racist ass, showed it very clearly. Wilt was better anyway.

Serbian guy here, I am still sad about last year MVP, he would be unicorn like Bird, Wilt and Russel with 3 in a row. I think Luka should've got it this year, and this was more "WE ARE SORRY JOKER FOR LAST YEAR, WE DID MISTAKE, HERE YOU GO". Anyway, I think Nikola is now in that group where rings matter the most. So fingers crossed that somehow Denver gets stronger bench next year and he can get at least one more chip. It would be amazing for us from Europe to have a top10 player in history, cause a lot of them are cruising like from 15-25th place on all time list. Cheers

​@@stefkoblHe will get swept and exposed in due time by MN. Barely plays any defense and will continue to rely on his supporting cast to pull through whereas Lebron would single-handedly will his team to the Finals -- on offense and defense -- but gets hated on. His title run with the Nuggets has closed already. Put any other All-Star player in place of Jokic and they also can win multiple MVP's dishing to that line-up. But, conversely, shut down that line-up and Jokic shuts down too unlike Steph, Bron, etc.,.

@@zhc2200 No point in arguing with haters, but I will try to be short. 2020 lost to future champ, 2021 lost to finalist, 2022 lost to future champ, 2023 champion. Both you and me will be 6ft under, but his name will be writen in history :) And if you have this many haters, that means he is doing good job. Bye 👋

@@stefkobl The arguments you are making can be made for so many players. The most important point is he does not play defense, and defense is a HUGE part of basketball, which makes him by definition not the most valuable player in basketball because he only excels in one half of the ball

He'll have to win another Finals otherwise the voters wont give it to him even if he fits the statistical criteria

No because they're getting swept. MVP getting swept means they were wrong.

If he wins another championship maybe he wins another MVP but even this way is very difficult. Voter fatigue + equaling Lebron and Wilt

How good would the Knicks have been without Brunson? That is the real mvp or SGA. Both teams overperformed.

If they win this tear somehow, he ll win all least one more, if they get boinced by Minnesota he ll never win again for sure

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shaq is a dumb ogre and he has the gall to become angry when called Shrek. His analysis don't mean shit just like his doctorate

Shaq's literally Xitler 😂

Tf?

because they let no rugged blacks in the league anymore. No more black kids outta high school anymore.

Totally. Last year Shaq was all « Jokic is great! He’s my buddy! »

Brian Shaw?

@Hoodlum728 he is only one of few players that have ever made my jaw drop to the floor in my life. The hate just gets pumped and pumped at him, for no good reason besides self-interest. It's just disgusting, man.

@Hoodlum728 During the Nuggets Lakers series, I enjoyed watching lebron play amazing at his age. I was shocked because no one had ever done that before.

How good would the Knicks have been without Brunson? That is the real mvp or SGA. Both teams overperformed.

Not one of the greatest European players he is one of the greatest players in nba history, the American thinking needs to change even as a fan you still sound biased

@RodriqueMcbean it's not being American excellence biased. I'm being modest, Nikola can 1000% be a top 5 player of all time. I personally don't think he is there YET. Him, and Dirk are the two best European players ever, and luka will be there quick as well.

Great point

Nope because they're getting swept. MVP gets swept.

​@@NYUArchaeologyIt's a regular season award.

Hard to guarantee that award because it's a vote and people are fickle and much of its narrative. He'll have to blow away the competition to get #4. If anybody is capable, it's him. He'll pass #3 on all time triple doubles next year probably

@@NYUArchaeologyyou are definitely special

@@chadmiyamoto9411 swept if they lose. MVP getting swept means it's a fluke award.

I watched Shaq. He was beast in the paint, great dominace but he was really bad at ft and he didnt shot 3s.Joker have all except vertical jump.Imagine Joker with his skill and mind with crazy jumping and blocking shots...No one is perfect.

Shaq was a less skilled and weaker version of Wilt.​@@aleksandarv8149

Narcissist #1 playbook technique ... PROJECT ONTO OTHERS WHAT YOU FEEL HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU!

Only they didn’t do it to him, that’s only his view. Nash deserved it over him, no doubt.

Luka deserved 2nd place

2 thumbs up and others have 40 or 50 ? Shady bs goin on

Yes. Which is even more ridiculous, because Jokic's stats are better. It seems to Shaq that stats = points.

@@ConsciousBreaks his stats aren’t better than luka though… shai averaged more points on a better seeded team. Jokic didn’t lead the nba in any major statistic and wasn’t on the best team. It’s just odd that now they are changing the criteria in order to give it to jokic every year. Shaq is making the point that winning an mvp used to make it harder to win another one but now it makes it easier for some reason. Keep in mind shaq only has one mvp and so does Kobe. You’re telling me that jokic is more valuable than those guys and is equal to magic and bird? Doesn’t make sense to me.

​@@calebconver2188 To me, neither the "best player on the best team" nor "baddest" player criteria should be what determines MVP. I have a similar view to JJ Redick: we need to weigh team success as well as individual stats/greatness (60/40 is what JJ proposed). I think we can all agree that one of the most important metrics for value is actually winning. We all know that you can pad stats on bad teams, so we can't simply say who has the best stats. Can a player actually be "most valuable" if their stats don't translate to actually winning? In what sense are they valuable, then? On the other hand, we can't just say the best player on the best team because it's not fair if you just happen to have better teammates. As for SGA and Jokic, they have the same team record. The only difference is via the tiebreaker, so that's virtually irrelevant. Jokic's individual greatness and stats IMO exceeds SGA's (more assists, way more rebounds, leads the league in TS% for players with 20+PPG). As for Luka, he has much better stats than SGA, at slightly worse efficiency (quite a few more turnovers too), but it hasn't translated to the same level of team success. This one could go either way.

@@ConsciousBreaks yea I understand your point from an idealistic perspective however there is precedent that needs to be factored in also. The precedent is that if a player has already won an mvp and it’s a close race then the award goes to someone that hasn’t won it yet. It was the same with shaq and Kobe and lebron and jordan. Now that jokic has 3 mvps he has equaled magic and bird yet in all time rankings he isn’t even close to top 10. If he actually plays even better next year and wins 4 now he’s tied with lebron. It devalues the importance of the award in terms of its value in assessing a players greatness when someone who isn’t top ten all time has as many as guys that are on the Mount Rushmore of the game.

​@@calebconver2188 I definitely disagree with that, on both fronts. First, I'm of the opinion that it's better late than never. Just because something was broken in the past doesn't mean we have to keep doing so. The NBA used to not record blocks and steals, so does that mean they should've kept doing so? (It's unfortunate because Wilt would've had so many more records and would easily be the all time triple double leader by a huge margin.) Side note: it's hard to say Shaq/Kobe should've had more than 2 MVPs each with my criteria, given teams' records and other players hitting their prime at the same time like Duncan, and Lebron. Second, it doesn't make sense to gatekeep MVPs because he's not top 10. Part of the reason those people are in the top 10 to begin with is precisely because they won MVPs, so the argument is somewhat circular. Besides, as time goes on, it's going to become harder and harder to break into the top 10 (look at Curry, people are only now *sometimes* putting him in the top 10). If that's the case, then that means we're going to reach a point where no one should ever win 3 MVPs anymore. Moses Malone has 3 MVPs and I think most would agree that Jokic is at least on par with him all time, which means he will easily surpass him when all's said and done.

So how valuable is Joker really, then?

Very Much, means He carried them to Excellent Record. He is the Best Basketball Player of the last 4 Years, deal with it ...​@@timm439

@@timm439 Valuable enough that they'd be a lottery team without him.

Pričaš glupostoVeć sada je Jokić br.2 svih vremena ,br.1 je Džordan .

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It's not a good "point" though. Aside from points and steals, Jokic smokes SGA in almost every other category (and is more efficient when it comes to points). Shaq was suggesting that SGA had the overall better stats...which he doesn't....then he pivoted to team wins...which were the same. He was just being a salty, narcissistic dick.

Nah Giannis played 11 fewer games in a shorter season. Not likely to win it that year.

27/14/8 63%TS, highest PER in nba history 32.85,played with Will Barton,Monte Morris,Campazzo no one ever heard of them

Lol....who is he bigoted against? You might be an idiot.

Why is he a bigot?