With his performance, it's not far that he will get that award, but the big award is winning the NBA Finals and getting the Finals MVP, and IMO, only great players do that like Lebron James, Kawhi Leonard, and Kevin Durant, Giannis badly need that kind of award.

Well yeah. He's one of the 3 candidates, right? Anyway he's great though (I am not denying that), however, I'll still go with Rudy or Brook, besides these two were on the the top list of players who has the most blocks. So, I think they are the most the deserving, oh yeah, even Davis too.

One more thing, he could get that Finals MVP award if they would be able to manage well in playoffs. They seemed off when bubble starts. You know... presure is a lot more intense in playoffs, so, I'm afraid they may not last long in postseason (not tryin' to drag them down or anything, don't get me wrong  ).

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4/5 for MVP award, and 2/5 for DPOY? Well fair enough. Oh it was made last April, it might still change I wanna see Gobert on their choice   for DPOY!!!

As it stands

Still hanging (below 8th place Grizzlies):
Blazers - .5 game behind
Spurs - 1 game behind
Suns - 1.5 game behind

Eliminated:
Pelicans
Kings

Zion can't do it all after all. He did well but getting eliminated early probably does more good than harm to him as he can start shredding those extra pounds before next season starts. He needs it.

JJ Redick's 13 year playoff streak has ended too. Not that important but it's still impressive. I remember Zion telling the press before the season that JJ told him not to mess up his streak
Who holds the longest playoff streak by the way?

This will be the 14th consecutive season that Kings missed the playoff. It's a long time rebuilding for this organization. I guess they can no longer replicate the success they once had with Chris, Mike, Peja, Vlade. That team used to give the likes of Lakers and Spurs real headaches.

I was just about to put an analysis too.
Thank you for doing this in advance because I am having a hard time to analyze everything.  

There is an intriguing part here. (After I read stadus bet for the Suns, that bulb of idea popped out of my head)
It's a bad one and just my own opinion, okay? You can call me crazy afterwards but for now hear me out.
Blazers is at 33 wins with 2 more games.
Suns is at 31 win with 3 more game.
If you look at it, its actually unfair. Suns is at perfect wins when we just count the restart of the season. Blazers already loss 2 games.
There is also a bad calculations with the games played.

Blazers 33-39 +2 more games = 74
Suns 31-39 +3 more games =  73 (correct me if I am wrong)

Back to my crazy opinion. Suns will be playing against OKC.
Melo and CP3 are good friends right? Really close.
Do you think CP3 will do everything to stop this Suns from getting another win?
I mean, that could mean a lot for Melo right?

That extra game by Blazers will probably help them clinch that last playoff spot if they win their 2 remaining games. It does look unfair but the teams also agreed to the current format so Suns and Spurs (71) can't do anything else but try to win all their games and hope for the best.

Every team is looking for their own interest so it doesn't matter I guess. Suns will always go all out to win regardless if CP3 and the rest of OKC will try their best to stop them. That's the way it should be - competitive.

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The ball is round and anything can happen. Who knows what kind of Harden will show up in their match.

I personally don't like the current Spurs team. I prefer the Suns to go through because of their perfect record so far but I don't think they'll have a chance against Lakers. If there's any team that will give them headache, it will be Dame's Blazers.

OKC was once a great team with KD, westbrook.and harden but they are persistent in getting titles that resulted to part ways and join other teams that has high potentials in getting championship titles. KD has already won championship but Harden and Westbrook still playing for it. If ever they get the chance to team up again in OKC high chances that they can win a championship game that if the three guys are in good shape.

With this results coming from staff  (former NBA players) we are seeing a glimpse of who might be winning the award. Remember that NBA awards are voted by a panel of sports writers and analyst and not all of them have played in the NBA so showing these kind of picks coming from staff of people working in the in the NBA media industry. And judging on where it stands I think Giannis is the one the media is favoring to win the MVP however all of this will change during the playoffs and if Giannis fails to perform I think they might shift their heads towards Lebron.

It will be difficult to achieve by now.
They part ways. They now have new teams on their own.
I bet OKC fans will also hate WB now, just like what they did with KD even though it should be their own decision of whatever team they will choose.
Since they are stars, a lot of offer will come in.

Maybe this is also the best chance of Harden and WB to get a championship.
Harden is in high amount of focus now. I think the WB addition gave a large boost for them.

^ Well, all four teams will end up playing once again today, which will make things change a ton in the next 10 hours or so (or whenever all 4 games ends). Spurs playing rockets, suns playing sixers, grizzlies playing celtics and portland playing mavs, all four teams have a chance to be in the playoffs right now, it is super exciting to watch however if you tell me that all four teams will lose today I would totally believe you.

Not that it will happen,  I am sure at least one of them will end up winning, however it really looks like all four are facing teams that are better than them, closest one looks like blazers versus mavs, but even they have a difference. I don't know how "fun" it will be, but it will be interesting for sure. And I call an end to Suns streak, sixers will probably get this game.

Still flawless, suns won again.. the streak is still alive as they continue to climbed, they beat the Sixers at a score of 130-117.

Booker led the team again with 35 points, this is insane, they'll make history in the bubble as this only happened once.  

Tied with the Blazers now, https://www.espn.com/nba/standings

if Blazers will lose, they might have better chance than the Blazers.