Nikola Jokic strengthens position 1 in NBA MVP race

Nikola Jokić is presently the main favourite to triumph the MVP grant successful the NBA. The Serbian halfway of the Denver Nuggets continues to delight his fans and the full hoops satellite with his unthinkable games.

On Christmas, Jokić played a memorable crippled against Minnesota, signaling 56 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists. Such a triple-double grounds has ne'er been recorded successful the past of the NBA, and the statistic near galore breathless:

56 PTS

16 REB

15 AST

2 BLK

4 triples

MVP race

This crippled further strengthened his presumption successful the MVP race. In the play truthful far, helium has averaged 29.8 points, 12.1 rebounds and 11 assists per match, which makes him 1 of the astir implicit players successful the league. He is presently the 5th scorer, but leads successful the fig of rebounds and assists, which intelligibly shows his dominance connected the court.

Behind him successful the contention for MVP are presently Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luka Dončić, portion Jalen Brunson and Cade Cunningham are besides connected the list. With his plays, Jokić shows that the quality of 1 halfway to predominate successful each segments of the crippled is extraordinary, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile Denver does not person 3 starters available: Aaron Gordon, Cam Johnson and Christian Brown.

The Denver Nuggets are the 3rd squad successful the West with a grounds of 22-8, and Jokic's magic often makes the quality successful cardinal moments. The Serbian shows that helium tin inactive pb his squad done the astir hard situations, and fans astir the satellite travel his each determination with enthusiasm.

Christmas nighttime erstwhile again showed wherefore Jokić is simply a campaigner for MVP; his quality to people points, crockery retired assists and power rebounds connected the tribunal is seldom seen. If helium continues astatine this pace, hardly anyone volition beryllium capable to surpass him by the extremity of the season.

Denver fans anticipation that the Serbian halfway volition beryllium conscionable arsenic ascendant successful the adjacent matches, but the astir important happening is that injuries volition permission him out. We volition spot if the 30-year-old tin beryllium astatine the aforesaid level successful the remainder of the season, but knowing Nikola, determination is nary uncertainty that helium volition astir apt proceed successful the aforesaid rhythm.