The NBA announced on Wednesday that Nikola Jokic had won the 2023-24 MVP award. This is the 29-year-old’s third time receiving the prestigious trophy.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished second in MVP voting. Luka Doncic finished third to round out the top-three vote-getters.
Jokic finished with 926 points. Gilgeous-Alexander tallied 640 points: 15 first-place votes (10 points each), 40 second-place votes (seven points), 40 third-place votes (five points), three fourth-place votes (three points) and one fifth-place vote (one point).
The full voting results can be viewed below:
This shouldn’t be a shocker. It felt inevitable over the last month that Jokic was going to win the MVP award. The real intrigue was who would finish second.
Even though he didn’t win the award, Gilgeous-Alexander had a phenomenal season in which he entered the upper echelon of elite players. The 25-year-old has had back-to-back top-five MVP finishes.
In 75 games, he averaged 30.1 points on 53.5% shooting, 6.2 assists and 5.5 rebounds. He led the Oklahoma City Thunder to the top seed in the Western Conference and a 17-win improvement from last season.
This is likely the first of many All-NBA caliber seasons by Gilgeous-Alexander. At 25 years old, he’s in his prime. The Thunder continue to have MVP-caliber players on their roster.
