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Every NBA regular season, ESPN updates its MVP straw poll three times — at around every one-third mark. In the second one for the 2025-26 campaign, Gilgeous-Alexander is so ahead of the rest of the field that he's lapped them twice.
The odds to win the NBA's regular-season MVP have tightened, with the top two betting favorites -- Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Denver's Nikola Jokic -- at risk of not qualifying for th