Tim Bontemps Handicaps the NBA MVP Race

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The second half of the NBA season is underway, and the MVP picture is starting to take focus. ESPN NBA writer Tim Bontemps conducts several straw polls every season, getting input from 100 media members across the country to get a sense of where the race sits at various points on the calendar. And with Joel Embiid ineligible for the award due to injury, Bontemps walks us through who the front runners are, and tells us what to make of the recent international flavor of the NBA’s most prestigious regular season award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Grat's an surviving with my man, good times, Tim Bon Temps, the NBA second half got going
0:05.0	last Thursday. How has the season treated you so far, friend?
0:09.5	It's been a been a whirlwind, Clinton. There's been a lot going on.
0:18.4	Inaugruling season tournament, all sorts of crazy injuries across the Eastern Conference,
0:24.0	new player participation policy rules, which
0:27.2	getting teams fine to getting guys ineligible for being able to win awards, a lot of great play on the court, a lot happening.
0:35.8	This is the time of year where the conversation around the MVP award of course
0:40.1	takes off. It's the first year with the 65 game restriction for
0:44.4	award consideration. That's been of some import to a lot of different players.
0:48.4	Tim you've got your straw poll version 2.0 out right now at ESPN.com any big trends we see emerging at the top.
0:56.4	Well the most obvious one Clinton is the one you just alluded to which is that with
1:00.0	the new 65-game player participation policy.
1:03.5	Jo Ellum Beed, the reigning MVP of the league,
1:06.8	guy who is the clear front runner
1:08.8	to win it for a second straight year,
1:10.4	is now ineligible to win it.
1:12.2	And because of that that as of right now
1:13.6	the koliokich who's been the guy who's gone back and forth in the past several
1:17.1	years is the clear front runner to win the award but there are a bunch of guys
1:21.8	behind him that I think have a real opportunity to pass him and I
1:25.2	think the fact that Nicole has already won a couple and would go into pretty rare fight air with a third one
1:31.2	I think it's going to leave the door pretty open for several
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