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In the rarest of NBA seasons — an MVP center! — let’s remember the best to ever do it

We might as well dispense with the formalities and give Nuggets center Nikola Jokic his first MVP award right now.

That’s what you get when you strap your Jamal Murray-less team across your broad shoulders and carry it — despite many outsiders assuming the situation is hopeless — on a 9-2 tear that puts the clamps on a top-four seed in the Western Conference. Murray’s ACL tear last month was a cruel blow to the Nuggets, but Jokic will bring the franchise its first MVP and the center position its first MVP since Shaquille O’Neal won the award in 2000.