Nikola Jokic scored nine of his team's last ten points. He did all the things in the clutch to win, but in the end, it was Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the defending MVP, SGA, who did MVP things better and delivered the three-point dagger with two seconds left that crushed the Nuggets in this game, and likely confirmed what Tim MacMahon had already said, "MVP is Shai vs. Wemby now."
Tim MacMahon was debating the MVP race along with fellow guest Tim Bontemps and host Brian Windhorst on the latest "Brian Windhorst and the Hoop Collective" podcast when he said it was down to two horses left in the race, and Jokic wasn't one of them.