How Many MVPS Does Nikola Jokic Have? Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic has been named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the second straight season, sources told ESPN’s, Adrian Wojnarowski.
A formal announcement is expected this week, sources told Wojnarowski.
How Many MVPS Does Nikola Jokic Have?
Nikola Jokic makes history again. The Serbian, who last year became the first center to win the MVP of the season since Shaquille O’Neal (in 2000), returns to go hand in hand with the epic and wins the most important trophy in the NBA for the second consecutive year. He is the first center to repeat since Moses Malone, who also did it consecutively in 1982 and 1983, years in which he got his second and third awards. When it comes to centers, only Jokic, Moses, Kareem, Bill Russell, and Wilt Chamberlain have done it more than once. A list to which a Serbian player who has turned 27 relatively recently (on February 19) and who is already rubbing shoulders, on a historical level, with some of the greatest players of all time, signs up.
The Serbian center had an average of 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds, and 7.9 assists per game in the regular season, confirming himself as one of the most dominant players in the American League.
Despite the loss of Jamal Murray, the Nuggets managed to get into the playoffs as the sixth seed in the Western Conference, before falling in the first round against the Golden State Warriors.
Jokic, 27, is the 14th player in NBA history capable of winning the MVP more than once.
He chained two consecutive players of the year awards and succeeds Antetokounmpo, who took it in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.
How Many International Players Have Won The NBA MVP?
Hakeen Olajuwon (1994, Nigeria), Tim Duncan (2002 and 2003, Virgin Islands), Steve Nash (2005 and 2006, Canada), Dirk Nowitzki (2007, Germany), Giannis Antetokounmpo (2019 and 2020, Greece), and Jokic (2021 and 2022, Serbia) are the six players born outside the United States to win the NBA MVP.
How Many Players Have Repeated The MVP In Consecutive Seasons?
With the last two MVPs going to Jokic, that’s 13 players who have been named MVP back-to-back, with Karl Malone and Bob Pettit also winning two MVPs, but not in back-to-back seasons.
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