Yeah thats something we pretend it is. But its also quite the narative driven award. When the competition comes down to a few players, you start to look at other things than judt their individual performance. Cause if it was a strictly performance based award, Lebron would have a lot more of them. And a few players would in reality. Hell a lot of players that do have them, probably wouldnt.

Jokic should have won it last year, but it was given to Embid because Jokic won is 2 years in a row and Embid was very close to winning it each of those 2 years so they gave it to him.

Now Shai does have what it takes to win it, but his competition has just as much. And unlike Shai, they actually have great playoff success. Hell i gurantee to you if the Mavs are a top seed, its gonna be Luka.

With the amount of MVP hype he gets every year, it would be shocking if someone else would get it. Its really just been his teams standings that have been draging him down.