NBA unveils finalists for 2024-25 regular season awards
The NBA has unveiled three finalists for each of its seven major individual awards for the 2024-25 regular season Sunday night.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will be headlining the finalists for the league’s Most Valuable Player award.
Jokic, a three-time MVP who is looking to become the third player — along with LeBron James and Bill Russell — to win four MVPs in five years, is virtually assured of finishing in the top two of voting for the league’s top individual honour for a fifth straight season.
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It’ll be the first time anyone has accomplished that feat since Larry Bird did it from 1981 to 1986.
Jokic, who averaged 29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 assists to join Russell Westbrook and Oscar Robertson as the only players to average a triple-double for a season, will finish first or Gilgeous-Alexander will earn his first MVP award.
The Thunder superstar, who led the league in scoring with 32.7 points per game, fueled Oklahoma City to a franchise-record 68 wins — the most in the NBA since the Golden State Warriors set the record with 73 victories in 2016 — and finished atop the last two versions of ESPN’s MVP straw poll.
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