We debated if SGA should have won MVP over Nikola Jokic | NBA Countdown
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- I was joined on NBA Countdown by Stephen A. Smith, Michael Wilbon and Bob Myers to discuss if Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should’ve won the NBA MVP over Nikola Jokic.
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Stephen A didn’t vote for Jokic one time in any of his MVP seasons. So he’s been wrong every single time. He’s always hated him.
jokic is white SAS is racis
Yep
Thats the ESPN agenda. Shameless Ignorance.
Stephen a is a racist xenophobic piece of garbage
He shouldn't have a vote. He is racially motivated
We all know Stephen has a motto of "If it ain't black, it ain't right.". Not much surprised of his take.
Yep
The disrespect on Jokic is crazy on National TV.. yes you could consider Shai, Luka. But u are never wrong with Jokic
No one has even considered luka. Luka had 34/10/9 with 50 wins, and he only hot 4 votes.
And again he will take another ring while they are choking in hate. Too many good players but Jokić is mvp in any means! 🇷🇸
I’m starting to think ESPN and nba hates Luka
They have openly admitted to hating luka.
They certainly play favorites don't they?
Why Luki? Stats are not enough. Else MJ would have won 11 MVP
Luka is good he may even be great. He's gotta win when it matters
I'm agree @@MadMan-vu2gl
Im sick and tired of saying OKC have seed 1 when they have the same wins as Denver.
50 games over 30? so did luka and he even averaged 5 points more per game, 5 assists more and 5 rebounds more than SGA, there is not even an argument for SGA over Luka
Exactly.
1 seed vs 5 seed
@@delwinfurlow2609 no one has control over teammates missing shots. Not Luka not SGA not Joker. Doesn't seeding depend on how well your teammates play as well?
@@delwinfurlow2609 like 4-5 games difference it was super tight absolutely doesn’t matter
SGA is doing something historic that only him and MJ has accomplished
The Jokic disrespect is gross what happened to respect? It’s all just meaningless blanket statements
Settle down, bro already had 2 MVPs. What do you mean what happened to respect?
SAS is a complete fraud. He knows nothing about basketball. He just watches the highlights and reads a script.
He knows nothing about bbl and just wants the “brother” to win
these fools on espn need to pray Denver don't win the next two games
Been saying this all week. Never seen the media be so proud to take a victory lap and demoralize a dude when the series is 0-2. If Denver can win game 4 can't wait to check in on all these losers who were so quick with their hot takes about Jokic and Denver.
@@mattbedrosian5298 yeah it’s been disgusting . It’s become so personal now the media
Jokic should’ve won it last year so the league had to get it right this time
so I guess we will be saying the same thing next year for SGA
@@royaltydeal1441This was the only year SGA had a chance of winning it, Chet and J.Williams will keep taking huge steps up, SGA shots will go down and thus he will have no chance of winning mvp going forward.
Exactly, racist K Perkins pulled the race card and made voters scared of voting for Nikola, so that crybaby Embiid got it.
@@royaltydeal1441 sga aint winning shit, media got Ant as the american face of the league, they'll try to gift him mvps mow 🤫
I doubt Stephen A watched 5 games for OKC this season...
He hasn’t watched 5 games period unless he was at the game. Listen to him. He pretends to be a big Knicks fan he knows nothing about the Knicks.he probably didn’t pay attention to Shai until it became a story.
@@gutenbird precisely
take away that SA vote, that ninja crazy
He's too loud. espn media love loud tin cans that resonate in the NBA media
The LUKA disrespect
OKC and Denver have same score.!Do they watch basketball?
No Luka consideration?
Arguably, OKC has the more talented and much deeper team…. If you switched the Joker and Shai, would Denver still be the team it is,….Don't think so. Justice is served.
LUKA >>>>>>> SHAI
Denver gets no credit like Jokic has help
The Improvement of Williams and Adding Chet healthy help OKC being #1 seed....SGA had the same stats
You want to talk about disrespect? Giannis basically averaged 32 12 and 8 on 60 percent shooting the last 3 months of the season and he finished 4th. The award has become an absolute joke.
Joker was robbed of it last year anyway so this is moral justice!
And we all know SAS NEVER voted for Jokic in all the time he was top dog since he is a RACIST.
hell no, luka and joker better than sga lol
The problem is that all these big networks only focus on the big market teams as they have a bigger audience and a bigger voice. They barely give any coverage on the smaller markets, that is why it took everyone by surprise that okc was ready for the playoff and not still in rebuilding mode. Other players in the NBA knew that the OKC players were a threat, except the media and nba fans.
NBCA awarding coach Mark Coach of the year just proves that they have not just been watching the big market teams only. Coach Mark has been developing this team by using the G-league. He did an amazing job in creating a culture and developing them. We knew they were ready for the playoff, but no one in the media talked about them. The media only focuses on the bigger market audience so the bigger market audience only knows about the accomplishments of the bigger market only.
That is why the audience of bigger markets are able to talk about their star players and put a bigger case for their behalf and don't think SGA deserves MVP. That is why many NBA fans think it was just pure luck they got the playoffs and underestimate the Thunder.
If the media had followed and covered the OKC for the last few years since it started rebuilding, no one would question why people think SGA is the MVP this year.
The audience and the media would have seen the fast progression of their development. How after every loss they would adjust their game and you could tell they had adapted on the next match-up with the same team they lost to. They would have noticed how many OKC players were constantly being send to the G-League, something a bit unconventional. A move that many fans hated and thought was degrading. Yet Coach Mark used that as a way of developing their players and gave them the opportunity to get more playing time and experience. They would have known that the bench of the OKC started developing really well and it is thanks to them playing on the OKC Blue.
OKC has shown the NBA how a rebuilt is done properly and effectively. Yet they are barely hearing about it.
Yet the facts are the facts, SGA is the true MVP this year.
Also, I was surprised Luka was given such low votes, I thought it would me more. Yet Joker getting that many is unbelievable.
Arent yall the people who vote us fans cant vote 😂😂💀
They tryna change the narrative so joker doesn’t win mvp again.
Jokic had better stats & his team had the same exact record as OKC. 26pts, 12 reb, 9 ast > 30pts, 5 reb, 6 ast
Jokic ties the series and prove them why he's mvp while embiid can't do that shittt, and Sga is down 2-1 , all SGA did was scoring and that's what shaq reason on why SGA should won MVP, while jokic and luka almost average a Triple double this season
SGA shouldn’t even have more votes than Luka, let alone win.
Jokic
26/9/12
10th FG 58%
2 seed
Record 57-25
10th points
3rd assists
4th rebounds
13th steals
38th blocks
3 pointers (not top 100)
2nd triple doubles (25)
SGA
30/6/5
25th FG 53%
1 seed
Record 57-25
3rd points
19th assists
58th rebounds
2nd steals
35th blocks
3 pointers (not top 100)
Triple doubles 0
Nuggets and Thunder finished joint top in a tie breaker settling it. They won the exact same amount of games
PER rating 1. Jokic
Win shares 1. Jokic
Offensive win shares 1. Jokic
Win shares per 48 minutes 1. Jokic
Box plus/minus 1. Jokic
Defensive box plus/minus 1. Jokic
Offensive box plus/minus 1. Jokic
Value over replacement player 1. Jokic
Usage rates
1 Luka
2 Giannis
3 SGA
5 Ant
12 Tatum
17 Jokic
If it wasn’t Jokic it should’ve been Luca Luca was the leading scorer in the league wasn’t he
How did SGA carry his team when he had same stats last year and they were like 10th?
Shai not the MVP of his own team even!! Chetto!!!
2:22 Only one allstar? Yeah,Gobert isn't good...
Edward's has a defensive player of the year,a sixth man of the year,teamate of the year and an allstar teammate...give it a break!
JOKIC IS GREAT
For me it was jokic,luka or SGA.
SAS is very upset that the two best players in the world are white guys from Europe. 🤣
SGA shouldn’t be on this 😂
With all due respect to the esteemed panel, and the incomparable Malika, i think the players should vote for MVP, I think they would get it right. No politics, no regional bias, the players would keep it real, and they know who's playing the best on the court.
No they wouldn't..they'd just vote for their teammates
@@joeduru7582 Lol..the pros respect the game, they respect the other ballers...ball respects ball...they respect their own talents so they don't have no problem respecting the talents of other players, and tipping their hat to those who out duel them in a fair fight. Not a popularity or image contest, not whether they like them or not, it's just ball, and only ball.....which I can't really say the same about the media.
Agree…. This panel has become the CNN of Sports…..Fake
Most players often have OUTRAGEOUS takes and enormous biases.
@@pistolpetetc Lol. That's what most people say about the media
Stephen A Smith didn’t have Luka Doncic on his All-NBA 1st, 2nd, or 3rd team ballot last 2 years. He voted for Jrue Holiday over him. This should be called out, and he should have to address it. This is pure bias, and anyone else would have their vote taken.
Number 1 was boston cut the cap..sga os great. If you have the #draft rifht now, who are you picking SGA or JOKER? Nobody can stop Joker. Periodt. Joker is mvp. He's the best palyer in the league.
Jokers goin off tonight he the real mvp place everything on denver m.l i know i am my last 2700 is on denver ml
Black HATE. The narrative of him rising his team up to nunber one seed is FALSE: HOLMGREN had a major impact...
well, that's your opinion mr. smith....fact is: jokic is mvp 🥳
Luka > Jokic > SGA. Luka just beat Shai with the #5 seeded team and Jokic may be about to be eliminated by Ant-man. Every fan vote had Luka winning MVP By like 60%. Looks like the fans had it right. The "fake MVP'S" are dropping like flies. Shai and the "dogs" of OKC got spayed and neutered tonight.
1,5
If Joker was black Steven A Racist wouldn't have a problem with the vote lol..
Luka should have won. Nothing stellar from Jokic. Shai fouling opponent with 19 seconds left in order to score 30 points.
Jokic is the MVP and the best player in the league , cry to your momma
HELL NAH🫡🤣😳😩🥲😅😆😂😹
Stephen A is garbage
If jokics the best he need to come hoop in the summer with regular no made up NBA just regular hooper and NBA player bet he look like a pedestrian out there KD Kobe mj all showed up either in New York or LA tell jokics pull up we gon see
shai is only an offensive player, jokic is both defensive and offensive
in what world did shai overstep best scorer in the league who is more efective then him,10 times The passer and better rebounder? Oh yes luka dont play no defence.... O and he is white
Yah they got it wrong. It should’ve been Ant
Now that is at least legit argument
Erm Luka?
Only can be 1 white persons in the convo a year.
@@MadMan-vu2gl that’s what it’s starting to feel like or at least non American players in general.
How is sga superstar when in europe 90 % dont even now who he is . Superstar is global star and not someone who stephen A Shitt likes , o pardon Stephen A Smith
These bums.
And whose fault is it for not getting OKC exposure? Shai got robbed for MVP this ridiculous
Joker had better stats & his team exact same record as OKC. 26pts, 12reb, 9ast > 30, 5, 6
Luka is the real MVP.
Jokic is about to get swept for two times in three years.
I guess not...
yeah they got it wrong. Ant should have won it!
Luka should’ve won 🏆
Stephen A Eventhough I’m A Bid Upset With Your Last Political Observation About The Democrats vs Trump and. the Republicans, However I Am A Fan Of Your Professional Sports Intelligence and I Agree With Your MVP Votes………..
They Finally Got Their Great Whit Hope……
Their great white hope is better than your great black hope. If you vote for Shai then he's your great black hope.
Jokic has a worse team and he had more rebound, assists and better advanced stats than Shai.
#1 seed. Had a far higher zed score than Jokic for fantasy which is a culmination of all total counting stats. Shai should have been mvp in my mind.
Voters should be former nba players thats it. Who the hell cares about SA opinion.