The calendar has turned to 2023, and the NBA schedule is nearing its midpoint. High time to predict the season's stretch run, starring Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and the most loaded MVP race in league history.
Meanwhile, Doncic's Mavericks have won seven straight games — albeit against a light schedule — to vault into fourth place, two wins shy of Denver's West-leading 24 victories. It is not much of a leap to say,
storyline could run cold by voting time. Durant can spin a fascinating yarn. He has not won the award since 2014 for myriad reasons, not the least of which was a career-threatening Achilles injury in the 2019 Finals. He returned to elite form by the 2021 playoffs, piled up numbers for a mediocre team last season, requested a trade this past summer and got his coach fired two weeks into this season. Since then, the Nets own the NBA's best record , offensive rating and net rating .
The Minnesota Timberwolves, on the other hand, took their swing this past summer to make a leap from frisky seventh seed to the West elite, trading three rotational players and a decade's worth of draft assets for three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert. The deal was immediately panned as an overpay, but not many people figured the partnership between Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns to be this disastrous.
Even if Minnesota discovers an identity with Towns, Gobert and Edwards all on the floor together by the All-Star break, it will not be easy to climb from the hole they have dug themselves, even if they are half a game out of the final play-in berth, trailing a Utah Jazz team that could embark on a tanking mission at any time. The nine other teams ahead of them have clearly distinguished themselves as more viable playoff teams.
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