Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Should've Won MVP This Year 

Joker had much more veteran help and that makes a huge difference to success. SGA did it with rookies.

Jokic's stats are way better and they have the same record. There is no debate

Jokic: - 10th in PPG - 13th in Steals - 1st in deflections - 3rd in APG - 4th in RPG - 1st in PER - 1st in Winshares - 1st in Winshares per 48 min - 1st in player impact estimate - 1st in box plus minus - 1st in on/off BPM - 1st in Value Over Replacement - 3rd in offensive rating - 5th in net rating - 2nd in amount of triple-doubles - 2nd in amount of double-doubles - 2nd in FG% within players that average over 25ppg (almost 60% from 10-14 feet away from basket!) - Epic game winner vs. Golden State - Tied for best record in the West - No all-stars in his team - No Jamal Murray for 23 games - 1st in amount of regular season games played among players who averaged over 25ppg - Almost average a triple-double Shai: - 1st in PPG - 2nd in Steals - 10th in APG - 20th in RPG - 6th in PER - 2nd in Win Shares (behind Jokic) - 2nd in Win Shares per 48 (behind..you guessed it...Jokic) - 4th in Value Over Replacement - 4th in Box Plus Minus - 8th in Player Impact Estimate - 23rd in Offensive Rating - 35th in Net Rating - 73rd In Double-Doubles - 0 triple-doubles - 2 triple-doubles in his whole career! As you can see Shai only beats Jokic in Steals and PPG. Jokic decimates him in mostly every other stat category under the sun. There's levels to this and Shai wasn't even close. Jokic was so far ahead in the MVP convo that they had to try and make it interesting by including Shai and making it look like he has a chance.

@@2g1c69way to expose yourself as a box score watcher. jesus

@@2g1c69Box score watcher. use your eyes maybe

yea not really

Lmao how are you saying they don’t win because of him when jokic stats dropped too. Again his team is 2nd youngest and went from the 10 seed to 1st. It’s lazy to say they didn’t make that jump because of him. This year that team would be nothing without him. Jokic of course is the better player but to say they didn’t get better because of SGA is foolish and you shouldn’t talk basketball.

What additions?? Only player they added was Chet and wallace

@@thomaschapman6088 he had the same stats and they finished with a 40-42 record, what did he do to add those 17 wins? Also I’m not saying he’s not a big piece of their success, but to say he’s a big reason and he carried them means people didn’t watch the games. Also Jokic is a bigger part of Denver’s success than Shai is OKCs, and the numbers show it.

@@benson5750 so Chet should prolly get a large chunk of that “success pie” since Shai did the same last year and the team was trash…

He’s just talking about mvp has been handled in all years prior. Almost every year has been awarded on narrative, and it’s almost never been strictly on who’s the best. Jokic is the best player & all candidates are deserving, but the nba/fans/media changed the rules this year & it screwed shai

What's Jokic narrative then? And why do they keep giving it to him? He's in a small market, he doesn't care about the media nor the MVP and still they give it to him! Jokic has no ties to the media to influence the votes. It's all based on numbers and merit.

Not always. MVP goes to the person who was most valuble for their team that year. Criteria being if that team was a decent enough playoff team, and their best player had a dominant impactful season. Thats how I see it.

Then, Tatum should have won? And Booker like 2 or 3 years ago? The Bad Boys 2 was also leading the whole NBA 1 year. So Rasheed or Billups should have won? NO. It's not that simple.

MVP should be the player that is the most valuable to their teams success. If you’ve already proven that you have enough help to be a championship team, then your value is likely less than that of say, a guy who takes a bunch of 23 year olds with no playoff experience and who’s primary help is two rookies and a second year player, all the way to the number 1 seed , as well as beating the reigning champs 3-1 in the season. That guy is THE most valuable player to his team. The award isn’t the best player in the league award. What is your value to your team?

@@august6281 yes

Yea, but it's not just shai, come on, we all know there's multiple reasons, if rj was gonna say chet was rookie of the year for his defense and role as a big man why isn't his importance considered, now aside that chet is like rudy but younger on a scale he lifted up the defense

lol it was a cool 3 games

Lost in the second round. Haha

@@NoNameWillBeGiven-ii5hu Was that because of Jokic?

It’s a popularity contest instead of actually being the most valuable player to their teams success.

I don’t think anyone hates Denver. They’re just acknowledging that Denver is loaded with talent and so it makes it easier for Jokic to put up big numbers because if you double him he’ll make you pay by kicking it out to one of the multiple high level players on his team. Jokic is amazing. No one is taking that from him. He’s just not the most valuable player to his team because even if he was out, Denver would still be a playoff team. You can’t say that about OKC.

​@@TheDeven1000yea, but besides mpj almost everyone was on and off and it's not jokic fault, chet holmgren defense was more important than anyother 2ndary component of denver in regular season

Fucking funny that you bringing up a rookie and Sophmore player. Watch yesterdays game and you see what Shai’s been doing all season dummies 😂

Jokic sets ILLEGAL screens all the time. And he rarely gets called for it.

wow u are not smart

“Jokic has more rebounds plus he sets screens” 😂😂 dude hes 6’11 center😂

He’s a center! Of course he’s supposed to have more rebounds 😂

theres 100% a case for Jokic to win MVP. this is not it

Your fucking username says “DallasAnubis” ofc you would think Luka deserved it as a 5th seed. Tell me what was Lukas team doing before the trade deadline? Dallas fans really fucking forgot 4 months of basketball to help them cope with trying to push an MVP narrative 😂

Agreed. Embid probably should've got it the year before he actually did, so his was a make-up call too.

Jokic: - 10th in PPG - 13th in Steals - 1st in deflections - 3rd in APG - 4th in RPG - 1st in PER - 1st in Winshares - 1st in Winshares per 48 min - 1st in player impact estimate - 1st in box plus minus - 1st in on/off BPM - 1st in Value Over Replacement - 3rd in offensive rating - 5th in net rating - 2nd in amount of triple-doubles - 2nd in amount of double-doubles - 2nd in FG% within players that average over 25ppg (almost 60% from 10-14 feet away from basket!) - Epic game winner vs. Golden State - Tied for best record in the West - No all-stars in his team - No Jamal Murray for 23 games - 1st in amount of regular season games played among players who averaged over 25ppg - Almost average a triple-double Shai: - 1st in PPG - 2nd in Steals - 10th in APG - 20th in RPG - 6th in PER - 2nd in Win Shares (behind Jokic) - 2nd in Win Shares per 48 (behind..you guessed it...Jokic) - 4th in Value Over Replacement - 4th in Box Plus Minus - 8th in Player Impact Estimate - 23rd in Offensive Rating - 35th in Net Rating - 73rd In Double-Doubles - 0 triple-doubles - 2 triple-doubles in his whole career! As you can see Shai only beats Jokic in Steals and PPG. Jokic decimates him in mostly every other stat category under the sun. There's levels to this and Shai wasn't even close. Jokic was so far ahead in the MVP convo that they had to try and make it interesting by including Shai and making it look like he has a chance.

That last sentence was a joke