After the Feb. 1 game, the West's rankings are as follows: Suns, Warriors, Grizzlies, Jazz, Nuggets, Lone Rangers, Timberwolves, Clippers, Lakers. The Nuggets, who are fifth in the West, have only one win difference left with the Jazz in the West, and the Nuggets have won 11 of their last 13 games, and they feel that the Nuggets are determined to hit the top four in the West, because Malone wants to help Jokic storm the MVP.
Jokic has been extremely horrific this season, his points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, shooting rate, true shooting rate are leading the team, in the absence of Murray and Porter, the Nuggets win rate of more than 50% 7 games, it is clear that Jokic is the MVP leader. (28 wins, 21 losses)
Jokic is also the first MVP in the double list, in the BBR's MVP list he has a 47.3% chance of winning the MVP; the NBA's official MVP list Jokic has been ranked first for two consecutive weeks, he is also likely to compete with Paul for the best of the month in January, if the Nuggets can enter the top half of the West in the record, it must be a good teacher.
The Jazz, currently fourth in the West with 30-21 losses, lost Joe Ingles in a Jan. 31 game against the Timberwolves, who sprained his knee without confrontation in a breakout before being lifted out of the arena without weight on his left knee.
In the early morning of February 1, ESPN reported that Ingles suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and that he would miss the rest of the season and would soon undergo ACL surgery. His 12.43 million contract also has one last year left, and this year Ingles is 34 years old.
The Jazz have only won two of their last 13 games, and they have suffered widespread injuries, with Gobert suffering from a sore calf on Jan. 24, Mitchell suffering a head blow on Jan. 18 (activating concussion protection mechanisms so far), Mitchell missing the Jazz with a 6-1 win and Gobert missing a 5-0 win.
And the Jazz also rumored that Mitchell's departure, if this season's Jazz continue to stop the first round of the playoffs, then Mitchell will be willing to join the Heat or Knicks. In other words, the Jazz are already internal and external troubles, they fell out of the top four of the West is a high probability event, and once the Nuggets enter the top four of the West, with Jokic's basic data + high-level data + team situation, he will really be the MVP.
Text/Yan Xiaobai