In mid-February, the second of ESPN’s three NBA most dear participant straw polls confirmed Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with a cushty — if not ironclad — lead over Denver Nuggets heart Nikola Jokic. Six weeks later, the race is just about unchanged. If the outcomes from our remaining straw ballot are correct — for every of the previous 5 seasons, they’ve been — Gilgeous-Alexander will declare his first MVP award. And in a ballot that mirrors the league’s official voting and was carried out over a 24-hour interval Sunday and Monday, Gilgeous-Alexander claimed 77 of 100 first-place votes.Supply: ESPN
