{"id":482875,"date":"2024-05-09T00:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T04:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482875"},"modified":"2024-05-09T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T04:58:03","slug":"nuggets-jokic-triumphs-with-his-3rd-nba-mvp-in-4-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-jokic-triumphs-with-his-3rd-nba-mvp-in-4-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets\u2018 Jokic triumphs with his 3rd NBA MVP in 4 campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> continued to add to his name as 1 of the best National Basketball Association players ever by triumphing with his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Most Valuable Player award today.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian won the trophy for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time in 4 campaigns, succeeding last campaign\u2019s MVP. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/philadelphia-76ers\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a>. Nikola beat \u00a0Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the OKC and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> of the Mavs, who finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, respectively, in the pool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got to begin with the teammates; without them, I cannot achieve anything,&#8221; the Serbian shared on TNT after winning the award.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola\u2019s 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Most Valuable Player triumph wasn&#8217;t close. Jokic had 79 1<sup>st<\/sup>-placed votes and a total of 926 points. Gilgeous-Alexander got 15 1<sup>st<\/sup>-placed votes and 640 points. Luka received 4 1<sup>st<\/sup>-placed votes and 566 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the top 5, we will also find Bucks&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> and Knicks\u2019 Jalen Brunson.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> center in 6 decades to secure the trophy 3 times in 4 campaigns as only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did it in the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked Nikola Joki\u0107 about having his family in the room with him for the announcement and reactions and he said: \u201cI didn\u2019t invite them, they just showed up.\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a special moment I\u2019m probably going to remember my whole life. It\u2019s &#8211; I like to say- a legacy for after career.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zhqx4SaSjl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zhqx4SaSjl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katy Winge (@katywinge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katywinge\/status\/1788373506788405641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic continued to add to his name as 1 of the best National Basketball Association players ever by triumphing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482876,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17837,16737],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17858,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Nikola won his 3rd MVP in 4 seasons as SGA, Doncic finished 2-3.","video":["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\/482875"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482877,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482875\/revisions\/482877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482875"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482875"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}