It was only a matter of weeks before the start of the NBA season, with the phenomenon of the Dallas Mavericks, Luka Doncic, installed as the favorite of the victims to win the MVP honors.
However, as in all cases during this time agreed upon by the pandemic, no salary as planned.
Doncic’s Mavericks are in the 14th round of the Western Conference, joining the career of the Judge Más Valioso with a huge camp of candidates and possibly abiding with a truck for LeBron James to win a historic fifth trophy of Jugador Más Valioso.
Second-place finishers have a time ahead of Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was converted into the dubious player in NBA history to win MVP consecutive trophies, James waved to the top in ESPN’s first campaign for the 2020 MVP -21.
To find out where the career is at this point in time, ESPN has asked 100 members of the media to participate in the informal poll that will vote on the post-season awards. For the most realistic realistic vote, there are at least one vote in each of the 28 league leagues, as well as a representative model of national and international reporters.
However, with the NBA official vote in the final of the season, votes will be taken to present a ball of five players, and the results will be tabulated using the league’s scoring system: 10 points per first vote lugar, seguido de siete puntos por el segundo; five points for the third; three points for the quarter; and a point for the fifth.
If James is currently holding the temper tantrums on his impulse for a fifth MVP trophy that he hopes to win in the race for a fifth champion in the event, receiving 54 out of 100 possible votes, his career is ahead of schedule. competes like any other in the last few seasons, with a pair of centers – the star of the Philadelphia 76ers Joel Embiid and the star of the Denver Nuggets Nikola Jokic – pisándole los talones.
Now in his season number 18, James, of 36 years, is looking to be remarkably consistent, playing in any of the 25 games of the Lakers up to the moment and claiming more than 25 points, siete rebotes and siste assistances for this consecutive time. James is saving 41 points for 3 points, the best of his career. This is the first time since 2013, the year in which he won his ultimate MVP award, which James has saved more than 40 per cent since 3. It was also the only time of his career to launch this brand; disappears at a rate of 37% from 3 points in each of the last six seasons.
James scored 99 out of 100 ballots in the end with a total of 760 points, leading to Embiid (23 first place votes) for only 95 points. The last vote by the Most Valuable Player in holding a final margin was made in 2004-05 when Steve Nash beat Shaquille O’Neal by 34 points. Jokic fue tercero, scored 18 photos of the primer and a total of 596 points.
This puts the difference between James in first place and Jokic in third in 164 points. In comparison, Antetokounmpo leads the second lie James by 152 points in the initial version of the question of last year. No final MVP vote has shown a small margin between the prime minister and third place from 1998-99 agreed by the patron saint, when Alonzo Mourning and Tim Duncan finished 100 points from MVP’s governor Karl Malone.
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Embiid is offering the highest time of his career, with a bonus of 29.3 points per game, the highest of his career, while also accumulating the best figures of his career in shooting percentages, including from the camp (55.3%), of 3 points (39%) and the line of free throws (85%) for Philadelphia, which holds the best record in the Conference This is and promotes the impressive figure of 15.2 points for every 100 points Embiid has been in the field, in Comparison with when is sent.
Philadelphia also has a 16-3 mark in games that Embiid plays this season, and 1-4 in games that do not play.
Jokic is currently the only player in the NBA among the top 10 scorers (27.6), rebounds (11.5) and assists (8.6) per game, and he will briefly lead the league in assists, even though no center has a go at it. Completely completed by Wilt Chamberlain in 1968. Él y Embiid aspires to be the first center to win the NBA MVP Award from O’Neal in 2000.
The depth of the career is reflected in much more than the competence in the superior part of the ball. Siete jugadores recibieron al menos un vote de primer lugar, más than in any previous edition of this poll. More from James, Embiid and Jokic, the star of the Brooklyn Nets, Kevin Durant, obtained three votes for the first place, while the teammates of LA Clippers, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, received one vote for the primer lugar, al igual que la estrella de los Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry.
During, after losing all the time passed with a rotation of the tendon of Aquiles, ended quarter in the vote with 272 points and appeared in 75 balls, while Leonard (153 points, 64 balls) finished fifth.
Antetokounmpo, the actual two-time MVP, was a distant sextet, gaining a handful of votes and appearing very likely to be successful. Doncic, the favorite of the past, received only three votes to lie, and his brilliant statistical curriculum was easily surpassed by the deceptive record of the Mavericks.
A total of 15 different players will receive at least one vote, including three players from the same team who will receive at least one vote per first time in any iteration of this poll.
The Rudy Gobert Center and the Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley Schools led the UBA Jazz to the best record of the NBA, only to receive one vote (for Gobert, two for Mitchell and one for Conley), mixed with the naturalness of team exit in conjunction this season. The ultimate team of ten players who received MVP votes in the time trial of the Suns of 2004-05 (Nash, Amar’e Stoudemire, Shawn Marion).