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MVP Race: Early Intrigue Among Top Candidates

I do not have an MVP vote. And the most games any team in the league has played is 11, or roughly 13.4% of a full 82-game season. Is that going to stop me from subjecting you to a way-too-early MVP conversation? Absolutely not. So as we approach the (kind of) halfway to the quarter mark of the NBA season, I’m going to fill out my nonexistent ballot, mostly because I think it will be fun to revisit this list at the end of the year and see how well it held up. Can the best players from the first 11 games keep it up for a full season?