The final and most talked-about award of the 2021-22 regular season, the regular season's Most Valuable Player, is finally out! Serbian center Nikola Jokic from the Denver Nuggets overpowered another international player, Joel Embiid, for the second consecutive year as MVP. Congratulations to Mr. Yo! This can be a little soothing for him and the Nuggets, who have already been out of the first round of the playoffs, and make this season that is not so perfect because of injuries a good end.
With the election of Mr. Yo, it also means that since the birth of Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2019, American players have not touched the regular season MVP trophy that symbolizes the status of the jianghu for four consecutive years, which is the first time in history that times have really changed. For Jokic, he is not only the 13th NBA player in history to be able to accomplish the feat of MVP in Lianzhuang, but also the third international player to be able to do so. Before him, only Steve Nash in 2005-06 and Alphabet brother in 2019-20 were able to win the MVP trophy for two consecutive years as international players.
As the fifth most passable player in history, Jokic and Embiid are very similar to Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu in the Three Kingdoms period, embiid is already good enough, but in the MVP selection, he can only secretly lament "he sheng yu he shengliang". After all, it seems that the Philadelphia 76ers, who are fourth in the East, have only won three more games than the Denver Nuggets, who are sixth in the West, and cannot be suppressed. However, in terms of data statistics, especially in high-level data statistics, "human pork belly essence" has formed an almost all-round crush on the "Cameroon lion".
In the regular season, Jokic, who led the team alone, handed over a record of 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds, 7.9 assists and 1.5 steals per game, while his shooting rate was as high as 58.3%, and his 66 double-doubles and 19 triple-doubles were ranked first in the league, which means that including steals, the above 8 statistics are ranked in the top 12 in the league! Horror is like this, this is the ultimate form of the Almighty Warrior.
In high-order statistics, Teacher Yo is more like another dimension, in another plane. His on-field contribution to BPM (Box Plus/Minus) is as high as 12.6, the first in the league and the first in history! The only thing that can compete with The Covenant Teacher is LeBron James in 2010, when the old Jan in his prime had a BPM of 12.5. This season, the total score contribution value of the teacher about the TPA (Total Points Added) is thriving, leaving the second letter brother a big cut. The efficiency value PER is 32.6, also the best in history, and in second place is the PER value of 32.3 handed over by the Greek monsters this season. In terms of player contribution value statistics, Teacher Yo still beat the emperor's 21.6 with a data of 22.9, becoming the first in the league. From the high-level data, we can see that Mr. Jo is a historical-level presence in terms of contribution and efficiency to the team, which is why he was able to successfully erase the aesthetic fatigue of the judges in the case of being in Denver, and willingly voted for him in the first vote.
As the fifth center in history to win more than one MVP trophy, Jokic has left his own mark in the history of the NBA, and has also associated his name with such famous names as Karim Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Moses Malone. If Mr. Yo maintains this momentum, it is difficult to say that in a few years the NBA's center President Hill will not change, and the human pork belly essence will not have a place there. Watching Jokic and Embiid clash at the pinnacle of the MVP selection, it is also impossible to help but sigh - at the moment when small balls are rampant, we seem to witness the history of the return of the fifth player to glory, basketball is still a game of elders after all, when the modern center has the skills and range of defenders, they can still dominate the offensive and defensive ends of the court.
However, there is a high probability that Teacher Yo has returned to his hometown in Serbia to take a beloved carriage and live a short offseason life like a wild crane. For the Nuggets management, there is no need to hesitate, when eliminated, Mr. Yo has given hints that "if the maximum salary contract is photographed in front of you, believe that you will accept it", then the super maximum salary of 260 million yuan in 5 years will be the best gift to tie Mr. Yo and the team firmly together.
Last offseason lone ranger formed a luxury contract renewal team of Cuban + Nowitzki + Kidd to go to Slovenia, and Bi Gongbi offered Doncic a maximum salary contract, so that the handsome guy had a lot of face. This summer, it is the turn of the Nuggets management to show sincerity, and Serbia must have run a trip, after all, the historic fifth position of Mr. Jo is worthy of such respect and honor.