Serbian giant, Nikola Jokic beat out fellow European Luka Doncic and Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to claim his third MVP.
While his Denver Nuggets are on the brink of an early exit from the NBA playoffs thanks to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Jokic lead the Nuggets to a 57-win season while boasting 26, 9 and 12 stat-line.
The Serbian claiming the award has made the NBA see an uprise for international award winners with an all-international MVP name list.
It is award fever in the NBA with Defensive Player of the Year announced yesterday and Rookie of the Year the day before.
French duo, Rudy Gobert and Victor Wembanyama claiming the awards with Rudy Gobert collecting a staggering fourth Defensive Player of the Year.
He joined an elite list of Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace with both winning the award four times.
Wemby fever took the NBA world by storm as the Frenchman was hailed as the ‘Next LeBron James’ and it was safe to say he lived up to the hype. The 20-year-old collected a cool 21,10 and 4 while also swatting away an outrageous 3.6 blocks.
The 7-foot-4 monster even made a case for Defensive Player of the Year this season but the only fault on his record was his poor performing San Antonio Spurs who only managed to win 22 games.
Minnesota Timberwolves big man, Naz Reid beat out upcoming free-agent Malik Monk to become the third ever undrafted NBA player to claim Sixth Man of the Year.
Reid, who dealt with two superstar big men ahead of him still managed to have a stat line of 13, 5 and 1. His Timberwolves look to make finals run this season and are on the brink of causing a massive upset against the reigning champions the Denver Nuggets.
Philadelphia 76er Tyrese Maxey also claimed a Most Improved Player win beating out Chicago Bulls player Coby White.
Maxey was left with the uphill challenge of trying to keep the 76ers a float with former MVP Joel Embiid going down with injury in late January. Maxey enjoyed a 5.6-point increase while also diming out 6.2 assists.
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