With the Denver Nuggets and the Oklahoma City Thunder set to square off in the Western Conference semifinals, it means the league's top contenders for the 2024-25 MVP award, Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, will line up across from one another. (We'll likely see the official award announcement early during this series too.)
But who has been the MVP of the past few weeks?
On a much smaller scale, we wiped the slate clean to some extent, outlining the 10 stars who've played like MVP contenders from the play-in tournament through the first round of the playoffs.