{"id":434750,"date":"2023-05-02T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434750"},"modified":"2023-05-02T05:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:52:20","slug":"jokic-has-zero-interest-in-mvp-announcement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jokic-has-zero-interest-in-mvp-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic has &#8216;zero interest&#8217; in MVP announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets\u00a0star Nikola Jokic led his team to a 2-0 in over Phoenix Suns in their Western Conference Semifinals scoring 39 points and adding 16 rebounds on Monday night. It is less than a day before the scheduled NBA MVP announcement.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday it will be known whether he will win his third MVP award in a row. The other two favorites for the award are Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo. \u201cI don\u2019t really think about it,\u201d Jokic said after the win against the Suns. \u201cLike zero interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Jokic is the 5th player in NBA history to record 20+ PTS, 15+ REB, and 5+ AST in three consecutive Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (3x, high of 3 games)<br \/>\nWilt Chamberlain (2x, high of 4 games)<br \/>\nBill Russell (3 Games, 1962)<br \/>\nTim Duncan (5 Games, 2003)<br \/>\nNikola Jokic (3\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/inUgefUeKs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/inUgefUeKs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA History (@NBAHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAHistory\/status\/1653262718424477701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, it\u2019s gonna be sunny so I can be in the swimming pool,\u201d Jokic added with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>With the third MVP in a row, he would be the first player to do so since Larry Bird and only fourth in the history of the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets\u00a0star Nikola Jokic led his team to a 2-0 in over Phoenix Suns in their Western Conference Semifinals scoring 39 points and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":427880,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16737],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17859,17858],"acf":{"announce":"Nuggets' star could become only the fourth player in history with three MVP awards in a row","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434750"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434750"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}