“Joel Embiid, DeMar DeRozan and…” Kevin Durant shockingly snubs Nikola Jokic with this player for his Top 3 MVP picks


“Joel Embiid, DeMar DeRozan and…” Kevin Durant shockingly snubs Nikola Jokic with this player for his Top 3 MVP picks

Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic

The 2021-2022 season has been incredibly serious. With a few groups playing mind boggling ball and dominating many matches, various players join the blend of being the top choices to lift the 2022 Most Valuable Player prize. The race for the lofty individual honor is too challenged as one can anticipate that it should be. Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, and Giannis Antetokounmpo are the current top three in the new most MVP stepping stool. Be that as it may, the considerable rundown of genuine competitors go on with players like DeMar DeRozan, Ja Morant, Stephen Curry, Luka Doncic, among a few others having a genuine shot at the Maurice Podoloff Trophy.

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Subsequent to conveying a MVP-like execution on Friday for the Brooklyn Nets, Kevin Durant got serious about the current MVP race between Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic, as well as his considerations on not being in the discussion.

The Nets destroyed out a home win over the Portland Trail Blazers, however it wasn’t all of the time. At a certain point they followed by 18 to a group missing Damian Lillard.

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Kevin Durant names Joel Embiid as his pick for the MVP race but in the process snubs Nikola Jokic

Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid
Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid

As of late, Brooklyn Nets hotshot Kevin Durant uncovered his best 3 as well as the #1 for the MVP prize. The Slim Reaper, who himself is right now one of the best 10 players in the MVP race, said:

“Joel Embiid, DeMar DeRozan, Ja Morant for me, those are my top three [for MVP] and I’ll probably go Joel. Jokic, you can throw Jokic in there. But I’ll probably go, Joel. It’s only great players playing at a high level.”

Indeed, JoJo, Deebo, and Ja are having a few truly unique individual missions. Be that as it may, for anybody to avoid Nikola Jokic with regard to their main three rundown would be criminal.

The Serb is as of now averaging a memorable 26.1/13.7/8.1 and is poised to complete the season with the best PER in NBA/ABA history. The Joker additionally has a nice 42-29 record, just a single win lesser than KD’s MVP leader, notwithstanding playing most of the period without any semblance of Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr.

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Regardless, we know one thing without a doubt – the MVP race is unquestionably not an uneven undertaking, and will without a doubt go last second.

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