We’re weeks removed from ESPN’s Straw Poll, which narrowly had Joel Embiid winning MVP. To be exact, he didn’t actually win the first-place votes, but edged Nikola Jokic out by having more second-place votes.
Voting is closed, and it seems like there’s been a massive shift thus far. The Dream Shake’s Max Croes has a yearly google sheet, tracking confirmed votes by those with a ballot — for MVP, All-NBA, Defensive Player of the Year, etc. We nearly have 20 percent of the ballots tracked, which is a healthy sample size of what might come.