Nikola Jokic has been named the 2024 NBA Most Valuable Player.
On Wednesday evening, the NBA announced that the Denver Nuggets star secured the prestigious award for the third time in his career.
In his eighth season, Jokic averaged 26.4 points, 12.4 rebounds, and nine assists while shooting 58.3 percent from the field as the Nuggets secured a second-seed finish in the West.
Their 56-25 season came after Jokic led Denver to their first NBA title last year by defeating the Miami Heat in five games.
Jokic got 79 of a possible 99 first-place votes from the panel of reporters and broadcasters who cast ballots on awards when the regular season ended.
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Nikola Jokic secured his third NBA MVP award, besting Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson
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Mavericks guard Doncic finished with four first place votes and 566 total points
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After a breakout season with the Knicks, Brunson finished fifth in the voting with 142 points
Oklahoma City´s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was second and Dallas´ Luka Doncic was third, both getting into the top three of MVP voting for the first time. With Jokic from Serbia, Gilgeous-Alexander from Canada and Doncic from Slovenia, it marked the third consecutive season that three players born outside the U.S. finished 1-2-3 in the MVP balloting.
This time, the foreign dominance atop the NBA was even more pronounced: Milwaukee´s Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is from Greece, was fourth – so this became the first time in the award´s 69-year history that international players went 1-2-3-4 in the voting.
It also became the sixth consecutive year that an player born outside the U.S. won the award.
Jokic is now the ninth player to win the MVP award at least three times. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won it six times, Bill Russell and Michael Jordan each won five, Wilt Chamberlain and LeBron James won four, and Moses Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are the other three-time winners.
The other players with three MVP trophies in a four-year span are James, Johnson, Bird, Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain and Russell. And Jokic becomes the fifth player to be first or second in the MVP voting in four consecutive years – joining Bird, Abdul-Jabbar, Russell and Tim Duncan.
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Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished second behind Jokic in the MVP voting
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Jokic and the Nuggets currently trail 0-2 against Anthony Edwards and Minnesota
The Joker spearheads Denver quest for a repeat as they compete in the postseason. After eliminating LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in five games, the Nuggets find themselves down 0-2 against MVP candidate Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Edwards finished seventh in the MVP results behind Jayson Tatum and in front of Domantas Sabonis and Kevin Durant.
The Timberwolves swept Durant and the Phoenix Suns before resuming their unbeaten playoff campaign against Jokic and the defending champions.
Jokic has a chance to lead his team to victory when the series against Minnesota resumes on Friday, May 10.
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