NBA MVP straw survey: 100 insiders of the league make their final voices

In mid-February, the second of the three most valuable straw issues from ESPNS showed three NBA straw issues in Oklahoma City Thunder, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with a comfortable-wenn not iron clad lead over the Denver Nuggets Center Nikola Jokic.

Six weeks later, the race is practically unchanged.

If the results of our final straw survey are correct for each of the last five seasons, Gilgeous-Alexander will claim its first MVP price. And in a survey that reflects the official coordination of the league and was carried out over a period of 24 hours on Sunday and Monday, Gilgeous-Alexander from 100 votes.

He finished second in the remaining 23 ballot papers for 931 total points, while Jokic ended with 769. After the two stars in the second round of the election in February all received a first and second vote, this edition was a clean sweep etwas that had not happened in the 19 earlier straw issues that had been carried out since the beginning of the 2016-17 season.

This dominance on the ballot is hand in hand with what both players have shown on the pitch.

Gilgeous-Alexander is at a speed of winning his first goal with 32.9 points per game for a Thunder team, which occurs on Wednesday evening against the Detroit Pistons (9:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) with a record of 63-12. OKC has to join the Chicago Bulls 1995-96 and the Golden State Warriors 2015-16 as the only teams in NBA history that win 70 or more games in a regular season.

Meanwhile, Jokic is trying to write history by winning the third player in five years and joined Lebron James and Bill Russell from 1961 to 1965 in the years 2008-12.

Despite the leadership of Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic may present his best MVP case.

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