Breaking down the NBA's MVP contenders so far.
Tony Anderson, Mike Sykes and Charles Curtis discuss the large number of players in the NBA they could picture winning an MVP award come season's end.NBA MVP narratives begin early and, right or wrong, help shape the MVP race for the remainder of the season. Start strong and finish strong, a player can remain in the conversation all season.
But that doesn’t mean the player who is atop the MVP poll early in the season wins the award, which is voted on by media. Last season, Golden State’s Steph Curry got off to a hot start, cooled off and finished strong. But it wasn’t enough to overtake Denver’s Nikola Jokic who won his second consecutive MVP. Curry finished eighth.Curry is off to another strong start along with Jokic, Boston’s Jayson Tatum, Milwaukee’s two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, Phoenix’s Devin Booker and Dallas’ Luka Doncic among others.
With help from USA TODAY Network staffers Jim Owczarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman, Duane Rankin of the Arizona Republic and Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star, we take a look at the top six MVP candidates after a quarter of the season:Doncic is almost in the same position as Curry: eye-popping stats but on a team that is .500. Doncic averages a league-best 33.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 8.7 assists and 50.5% from the field. His 33.
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