At ESPN, writer Tim Bontemps conducts a yearly MVP straw poll update where he pulls together 100 media members from every market in the league to gauge who might be leading the MVP race throughout the regular season. The straw poll is often a pretty good indication of where the MVP voting currently stands at the time, and in the latest installment, Nikola Jokiu0107 shook up the order.
What the voting concluded is that it’s basically a three horse race between Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. We already had a rough idea this was the case, but what we did not know was how those three would shape up in the voting.