Competition for regular season MVPs for the 2021-22 season is still fierce, as the ranking of regular season MVPs varies considerably every week. In the case of durant and Curry dominating the screen for almost the first two months of the season, the ranking of the MVP in the regular season has changed greatly.
In the NBA's official regular season MVP rankings, two of the top 5 players have changed, with Jokic completing the overtaking of Durant and DeRozan breaking into the top 5 positions:
1. Giannis Antetokounmpo
2. Nikolai Jokic
3. Kevin Durant
4. Joel Embiid
5. Demar DeRozan
6. Stephen Curry
7. Ja-Morant
8. Chris Paul
9. LeBron James
10. Rudy Gobert
It should also be noted that after not performing well enough in recent times, Warriors superstar Stephen Curry has fallen out of the top 5 position, considering that Curry was still the player who could lead the league some time ago, such a change is indeed surprising.
As for Joel Embiid, he can still lead the 76ers to play well enough, which also allows him to continue to maintain the top 4 positions in the regular season MVP rankings, but Embiid may have a lot of difficulty to impact the regular season MVP. There is also LeBron James, who can play a top-level performance so far this season but cannot lead the Lakers to play a good enough performance, can only rank in the 9th position, so unless the Lakers can suddenly break out in the second half of the season and play a good enough record, James is unlikely to hit another regular season MVP trophy in his career this season.
Of course, there is still half a season left before the end of the regular season, and the ranking list of regular season MVPs may still change greatly in the next game, especially if the difficulty of each team's schedule is different in the second half of the season.