According to reports, Jokic became the 2021-22 regular season MVP, the second consecutive year jokic was elected regular season MVP.
As a result, Jokic also became the 14th player in NBA history to win the MVP multiple times, and the 13th player in history, and the fourth player in the current game to win the MVP. Among the active players, James, Curry and Alphabet Brother have all won MVP in a row, and James has done it twice.
In addition, Jokic also became the fifth center player to win MVP multiple times after Abdul-Jabbar, Russell, Chamberlain and Moses Malone. Before Jokic, the last time a center player got the MVP, it was back to O'Neal in 2000. That said, no center has ever won an MVP in the last 20 years, and Jokic broke this embarrassing record, and it was two in one go.
Jokic is also the third international player to win the regular season MVP, the first two being Nash and Alphabet Brother. After Jokic won the MVP this season, the NBA's regular season MVP for four consecutive seasons was an international player, and Alphabet Brother and Jokic won twice each, and both of them were European players. The last American to win the regular season MVP was Harden in the 17-18 season.
It is true that the ownership of the MVP this season is very controversial, but Jokic's performance this season is worthy of the MVP. Jokic averaged 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists in the regular season this season, leading the team to a record of 48 wins and 34 losses. Jokic ranks first among the Nuggets in terms of points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and shooting percentage per game. Jokic also became the first player in NBA history to score 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 assists in a single season.
It is worth mentioning that when Jokic was on the court, the Nuggets had a total of +444 plus or minus this season; and when Jokic came off, the Nuggets' all-team plus-minus was only -255, which is where Jokic's value lies.
However, despite Jokic's impeccable regular season performance, his team performance in the last two seasons of the playoffs has not been very good, and after winning the MVP last season, Jokic was swept by the Sun in the second round. This season, Jokic was eliminated by the Warriors in the first round and nearly swept.
For the MVP, such a team performance is indeed not good enough, from this point of view, among all the players who have won the MVP, Jokic can be regarded as relatively watery. However, it is not Jokic's problem to get out early in the playoffs, who has been excellent, averaging 31.0 points, 13.2 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.6 steals per game in the playoffs this season, shooting 57.5% from the field. It's just that the team is plagued by injuries, and it's no wonder That Jokic. And MVP is a regular season award, which has nothing to do with the playoffs, and cannot be used to negate the regular season.
In addition, the players who have won the MVP in the past 19 years, only James (2012 and 2013) and Curry (2015) finally won the championship that season, so the regular season MVP cannot be judged by the success or failure of the playoffs.