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Two NBA players separated themselves from the league's other biggest stars in 2025. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets battled for MVP of the 2024-25 regular season, splitting all 100 first-place votes, dueled in perhaps the most memorable series of the 2025 playoffs and are 1-2 again in the first installment of the MVP straw poll conducted by ESPN's Tim Bontemps.