Either pick the best player in the world or the player who made the biggest individual impact on winning for his team in the regular season. They chose the latter, and I’m more than fine with it.

People who bring up the playoffs expose themselves, because they know, as we all know, that MVP is a regular season award. And Jokic’s stats, both counting stats and advanced, are extraordinary record-setting stuff. And his impact on winning, both from stats and the eye test the regular season, is transparently obvious.

Giannis had Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday and won 51.
Embiid had Tobias Harris, Tyrese Maxey, and a quarter season of Harden and won 51.
Jokic had… Will Barton and Aaron Gordon… and won only three fewer games than the other MVP candidates.

Like, context matters.

Giannis is obviously the more well-rounded player. Would’ve been happy with him too. But Jokic is the best offensive player in the NBA, and he impacted regular season winning at a crazy level this year. If you don’t think that’s an MVP resume… I don’t know what to tell you.