So far, the NBA's 2021-22 season has been a crazy and exciting journey for everyone, especially Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, whose latest regular season MVP rankings have been announced, all hints that last season's MVP winner is hopeful of winning the award this season.
The MVP leaderboard is as follows:
1 Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets, center)
2 Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers, center)
3 Letter Brother (Milwaukee Bucks, Big Forward)
4 Demar DeRozan (Chicago Bulls, Forward-Back Swingman)
5 Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors, point guard)
6 Devon Booker (Phoenix Suns, shooting guard)
7 Ja Morant (Memphis Grizzlies, point guard)
8 Luka Doncic (Dallas Maverick, Strike-Back Swingman)
9 Chris Paul (Phoenix Suns, point guard)
10 Jimmy Butler (Miami Heat, small forward)
While jokic appears to be the player most likely to win the regular season MVP of the season, as the playoffs get closer, a lot of things are likely to change in the coming weeks. While all the players on this list have played very well on their respective teams, it's hard to ignore the season Jokic is going through, averaging 26 points, 7.9 assists and 13.8 rebounds per game. Although Embiid behind him put a lot of pressure on Jokic, in addition to averaging 29.6 points per game better than Jokic, he averaged rebounds (11.2) and assists (4.5) slightly behind Jokic, in other words, of all the MVP candidates, Jokic performed best.
Jokic is the main reason the Nuggets have still been able to achieve 34 wins and 25 losses this season, ranking sixth in the West, and in the absence of Michael Porter and Jamal Murray, I believe their record would be much lower without Jokic, and if he wins the regular season MVP again, this is what he deserves.