After spending some time atop NBA.com’s MVP Ladder, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has fallen to second again, with Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic leapfrogging him. As a reminder, these rankings are not representative of the NBA as an entire monolith but of solely the writer, Michael C. Wright, who pens this weekly column.
Behind Jokic and Embiid to round out the top five are Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum and Domantas Sabonis. For Jokic’s section, Wright wrote the following segment:
“Jokic’s standing at the top could prove tenuous in an MVP race that’s shaping up to be the closest since 1989-90, when Magic Johnson bested Charles Barkley in a vote separated by 22 points.