Heeeeereeee’s Jayson!
In the latest edition of his weekly Kia MVP Ladder, NBA.com’s Michael Wright has welcomed Boston Celtics’ star Jayson Tatum into the chat, ranking him fourth overall after a few weeks of floating just outside the top five. Ahead of Tatum remain the season-long presumptive favorites — Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, and Giannis Antetokounmpo, in that order. But Wright makes it known that Tatum did enough over the last week and change to leapfrog both Dallas’ Luka Doncic (now no. 5) and Memphis’ Ja Morant (now no. 6, likely thanks to the knee injury that will keep him out for a few weeks).