“The worst MVP winner”: Shaquille O'Neal seemingly agrees with Gilbert Arenas’ point of view about Nikola Jokic’s NBA MVP claim

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Saturday, 06 April 2024 at 22:17
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The Los Angeles Lakers legendary centre Shaquille O'Neal has seemingly agreed with the three-time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas’ claim about Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic’s claim to become NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) this season.

The 29-year-old is currently leading in the official NBA MVP rating charts this season ahead of the likes of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics.

O'Neal, who is often regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA and won the season MVP award in 2003, recently reposted a video from Arenas where he stated that if Jokic becomes the MVP this season, it will be ‘statistically’ the ‘worst’ winner of such an award in the last 40 years.

"We can say whatever we want, but when Kobe's team was 10th, they didn't give it to him,” he said in his podcast. “Just like they didn't give it to every other player who had a great season, but didn't have a great team success...Y'all fuc**** it up, not me.

"When Jordan should have won seven of those motherfu*****. LeBron should have had bunch, Shaq should have had bunch...because of people like Mike Greenberg are voting, and you guys are changing the narrative on how you guys want.

“Jokic is probably, statistically, when it comes to overall game, the worst MVP winner…in the last 40 years. When you are talking about MVP, the people who won the MVP, their team was first and second place.”

Jokic is having a fabulous season for the Nuggets where he is contributing 26.5 points per game which is the eighth best in the competition. To go with that, he is also contributing 12.4 rebounds (fourth best) and nine assists (third best) per game this season.

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