It’s official – Nikola Jokic is the NBA MVP for the second straight year. 'I don't think about it now. But when I'm old, fat, and grumpy, hopefully I'm going to remember, and tell my kids back in the day I was really good at playing basketball,' he said.
The news had been expected since Monday, when ESPN first reported Jokic was set to repeat as the league’s MVP after leading the Denver Nuggets to another playoff appearance despite the team missing its other two top players for most of the season, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr.Jokic was notified of his win after he had been out racing horses at the stables in Serbia he trains at.
Jokic called winning his second straight MVP award and the way he learned about his win"a really emotional moment" for him, especially with his head coach and Nuggets brass there. And he said it meant a lot to him to be in the company of the 12 other back-to-back winners, especially coming up as a boy who was not thinking about playing basketball, but rather about harness horse racing.
"I think it's something I will look up when I'm older and say we did a really, really tough thing, and we did a great thing," Jokic added. Jokic received 65 first-place votes from the panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. Embiid finish in second with 26 first-place votes, while Antetokounmpo received nine first-place votes.
Jokic made his fourth straight All-Star team and was a starter for the Western Conference, as were Embiid and Antetokounmpo for the Eastern Conference.
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