By finishing second in this year’s Kia NBA MVP balloting behind only Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokić became just the third player in NBA history with a top-two finish in five or more consecutive seasons. He won the award in 2021, 2023 and 2024, plus was second in 2022 and again this year.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been voted the 2024-25 NBA MVP, according to ESPN, and obviously, that means Nikola Jokić was not. Whether Jokić or Gilgeous-Alexander was the proper choice was a matter of intense debate throughout the season,

During NBA playoff pregame coverage in Oklahoma City, Malone clarified, if he had a MVP vote, he would have voted for Jokić over eventual MVP winner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of th

As the NBA prepares to announce its 2025 MVP, check out the stats of the top two contenders from league's Western Conference.

With Denver Nuggets eliminated from the playoffs on Sunday, Nikola Jokić has officially ended perhaps the best five-year run in NBA history.

Modern-day NBA big men have been shifting toward a positionless style of play for several years as the league changes its style, but for the few t

For the second straight season, Nikola Jokić's eternally resilient Denver Nuggets took a Western Conference heavyweight to seven games in the second round. And for the second straight season, Jokić's Nuggets ultimately fell short for the same reason.

They weren't that thin for the Denver Nuggets. They were as thick as Nikola Jokić. The best player in the world had the 68-win Thunder on the ropes multiple times. Jokić outplayed presumptive MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in a second-round series that went seven games but ended in an OKC blowout.