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This is a big night in somebody's life. We're gonna be talking to Reggie in our next segment

As a matter of fact as he gets ready for this, but Chuckster you are absolutely. This is a big night in somebody's life

Michael Jordan won the award five times and the Kia MVP trophy bears his name and image

Glance at the list of winners through the years and you see reflected the global reach of the game

It's been awarded since

1956 and in the first 63 years only three players born outside the United States had claimed it

Akim Elijah won Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki

but the last five years

The honor has gone to players who learn the game and develop their love for it in their homelands Greece Serbia

Cameroon that global impact will be evidenced again in 2024 with Canada, Slovenia and Serbia

Represented here are the finalists for Kia NBA

most valuable player Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks Wow Cola yokic of the Denver Nuggets and

Oklahoma City's Shay

Gilgis

Alexander

Got two MVPs here

This is this guy is closest

But you passed up a charity golf tournament today in Alabama and wanted to be here and you're wearing a new suit

So you get wanted to be there. He's supposed to be here

Work, you didn't want to be late. Okay, I appreciate it Ernest

Next time big fella gonna look I want to just wait till he hears it the

2024 MVP

From the Denver Nuggets

Nicola Jokic and we congratulate the Joker who for the third time is

the Kia MVP of the NBA

26 points the game was number 10 in the league 12 rebounds was number 4 9 assists was number 3

At 25 triple doubles second most in the league 68 double doubles was second in the league

31 games of at least 10 assists this year 23 games with at least 15 rebounds and

Nicola Jokic

claims his third

MVP award

Shaq your thoughts I

Don't like to rain on people's parade, but I'm not happy with this one

Congratulations a joker you are the best bad big man in the league

But based on everybody's criteria my criteria stats that stuffer you guys criteria number one seed

Which team has a better record? I felt Shay Alexander deserved it because I've been I've been number two a lot

And I played my ass off number two so the fact that he has to start all over next year and try to win it again

I think it was I

Know it's gonna be hurtful for him. Hopefully he uses this to motivate him to win a championship

But I thought and again no disrespect to the Joker best big man in the league by far

You could have went this way, but I thought

Shade Gilges Alexander one of only you know a few players that had 30 points 50 times

That stuffer great season his team is number one. Nobody expected him to be number one

I thought she gives just Alexander was gonna win it by far, but congratulations to Joker

I'm happy for him third time MVP

You really can't be mad at this vote

But the fact that he has to start all over next year and win it over again

Because again, I thought I was robbed two or three times

Right, and I played my ass off stat stuffer won championships those years

But again, no disrespect to the Joker, but I may personally I would have gave it to shame

You keep throwing stat stuffer out there. It is no because that's my criteria

Okay, not stuff the statue. Yeah, but not like no, but not like I mean she

really

She is one of a few players that had 30 points in 50 games

Well, look at but when you're talking about stuff in the stat sheet

Look at all the triple doubles for Nikola Jokic you look at his ranks in scoring rebounding and assists

I don't think stat stuffing is a as an argument. Okay, but even doing all that

Okay, see was a number one. They had

No, they had identical records. It was a it was a division record tie breakers

That was the separating factor all this is subjective. Yeah, it is

Well, and you're and you're certainly entitled to you can make a case for any of those three to make it

Actually, I thought you could have made and I've said it before and I just said I thought you could have made a case

For five guys sure without Anthony Edwards and Jalen Bronson. I thought anybody voted for one of those five

I would have been like, okay, I can understand that because every year

Idiots get on TV and talk about who's the best player. It never goes to the best player

It goes who had the best regular season, you know, Shaq said he got robbed every year. It doesn't

Well most of the time it goes to the guy. So, you know Shaq say it got robbed

I don't know if he got robbed

It doesn't go to the best player go to the guy who had the best record you know what don't name it most viable player

It goes to the most valuable player in the league that was me

Well, don't name it that day let's let's

Let's stick to this year, let me give you the results by the way

Because it really wasn't close

Whoo

That's surprising first place votes 79 for Joker 15 for SGA

4 for Luca 1 for Yanis

Not for Bronson. No total votes total points

926 for Joker

640 for SGA

566 for Luca so it's Joker SGA and Luca Doncic 1 2 3

I mean 15 for SGA. Come on. I just I would say this, you know

Yoke itch is

arguably

Best Center in this millennial right now. There's no question that he has he's the one a third MVP

I

Would have to agree to with Shaq on this regard that

He's shakeout shakerless Alexander has taken his team to heights that no one knows no expected and

That actually hurts being great like Shaq was and Yoke itch at times

It hurts they're like, oh well, you're supposed to do that. You're supposed to do there's an expectation

and the expectation that Joker would join us is coming to pass because

The MVP for the third time over Nikola Yoke, it's joins us tonight Joker

Congratulations to you on number three

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, you're I guess you're pretty good at these acceptance speeches now

This is your third time, so where do you begin in in your recognition in this one and what does the third one mean to you?

I

Mean, we've got to start with the teammates, you know without them. I'm nothing and

Without them I cannot do nothing, you know, so coaches players

Organization medical staff across 10 coaches development coaches, you know, it's a

Old one big circle that I cannot be where I am without them

Joker as the president of the big man alliance, you are the vice president of the big man alliance, you know

I love you the best player in the league. I want to congratulate you, but I want you to hear from me first

I thought the SGA should have been the MVP. That's no disrespect to you. But congratulations

And what do you guys have to do to get back on track versus Minnesota?

Thank you, we don't judge people here, you know, so that's fine

All good, I love you I love your brothers one thing we always gonna do is keep it real with each other congratulations

I love I think there is a lot of people that a lot of players deserve it

You know, it's probably details in it and a small small things

But yes, we have a we have a target have a touch patch we lost two games in at home against Minnesota

tomorrow we leave we're going to

Minnesota to try to get back serious to Denver

You know joker number one. Congratulations, you know

How has the shock of the size and the defensive pressure?

Kind of caught you guys off guard because the way they're the two big guys obviously one didn't play last game

But their perimeter players are playing so aggressive defensively. Do you think that kind of caught y'all off guard? I

Don't think so because we played against them four times and they're the number one defense the whole season and they were number one

spot the whole season so

No, it's just you know, it's a it's a part of basketball, you know

They are playing really good they had they didn't they didn't lose the game the first round and the day they continue to play

We're on a really high level and they're just kind of getting getting higher and higher and

We kind of just I'm gonna say stop. We didn't play didn't play the our brand of basketball

So that's our goal for the next tomorrow whenever we play to play our brand of basketball

Congratulations, Jokic, you know, I want to say that also you came into the league

and you kind of

Redefined what the center position is has done in terms of the threes the passing and the ball handling is a different era

Untraditional so you win your third MVP. What is an MVP to you? What does that actually?

Qualifications that you need to have and to be an MVP that you've done three times. I

Mean, I don't know

Probably

Some people say it's the best best player the best team

But I don't know probably the guy who helps there with the most viable though who like the team cannot play without him

There's I don't know probably probably that

Last thing for me

Nicola is just what and in times like this when there is this singular award like this

And you know, you have your current crop of teammates and coaches and that kind of thing

But when you think back

Who was it that helped make this possible the most for you? I?

Mean since I came here I'm working with them in the nuggets organization

Individually, I'm working with two three people. It's it's a Jason Miller. It's Felipe and it's Augie and you know

Those are guys who work with me closely and of course our coach and then our coach was one

I'm with seven seven year eight years and

You know tomorrow the guy who are playing the most in this organization and you know, and my family

You know, they're always with me and what was around me, but you never see actually you kind of see them

Yeah, so who last thing who planted the seed with you that this would ever be possible

That's it I really don't know I mean I really don't know I mean it's probably

I

Think it's not one person

All right. I'll take that for an answer

Didn't try to stump you on your on your night, but I appreciate it

So, yeah again the Joker SGA Luca Donchich one two three four

Fourth Yanis was fourth Brunson fifth

Tatum six Edward seven

Sabonis eight and Kevin Durant nine Edwards was that low? Yes. He was Edwards had

One second place vote one third place vote one fourth place vote and three fifth place vote. Yeah, I thought and I thought