The pantheon of NBA legends is about to disappear Nikola Jokic to their ranks. The Serbian is days away from being crowned the MVP of the 2023-2024 seasonthus achieving the third Most Valuable Player of his career in the Regular Phase -he also won one in the 2023 Finals-. A milestone that until today, they have barely achieved 8 of the greatest players of all time.
In the club of the three MVPs there is no glued. Position by position, the best exponents in history appear there. Among the bases, only Magic Johnson he won the award three times. Between the guards and forwards, Michael Jordan, LeBron James y Larry Bird. And among the interiors, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell y Moses Malone. Some may be missing, but no one is left over. And neither will Jokic, whose dominance in recent years is on par with those big names.
Jokic will add his third MVP in 2024 regular in four years. He won it for the first time in 2021, repeated it in 2022, lost it at the hands of Joel Embiid in 2023 and will regain the scepter in this campaign, in which he already There seem to be no contenders for his reign.. He has the best numbers and his team is at the top of the West. There is no discussion.
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But that is not all. Considering that in 2023 he did not win the Regular Phase MVP but he did win the Finalesyou can talk about 4 years in a row in which the Serbian has been at the top of the league. And that has never been seen in history.
The Denver Nuggets star would be the first player to win four MVPs in consecutive campaigns.
Neither Magic, nor Bird, nor Malone, nor LeBron, nor Wilt, nor Jordan, nor Kareem… no one has made it. Not even Bill Russellalthough in his favor it must be said that the Finals MVP -trophy that today bears his name- was created in 1969at the close of his string – barely interrupted in 1958 and 1967 – of 11 titles in 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics.
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Of course this doesn’t mean that Jokic is the best player or interior of all time, but it does give him a historical context to his achievementsmonths after having just turned 29 years and with a lot of thread on the spool.
In a league of constant income and rise of stars and in which many times the narratives of each season lead to changing who is placed at the top of the general consideration, carrying 4 campaigns in a row like the rey of the league It is extremely unusual.
So unusual that, until Jokic in 2024, no one had achieved it before.
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2024-04-10 15:39:46
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