The next generation has already begun to take on the role, and two torchbearers are engaged in a quiet fight right before our eyes. With any luck, a dramatic turnaround could happen in June this year.

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokicé can lead the Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets to the finals this year to sort things out in ways they haven’t been able to yet.

They led their franchises to two of the last three NBA titles, with Stephen Curry winning one in the middle. Each Titan has two MVPs (안전놀이터) and a Finals MVP.

The basketball world is bracing for the inevitable aging and retirement of LeBron James, Curry, and Kevin Durant and is openly wondering if Ja Morant, Anthony Edwards or rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama will take the light and lead the way for the next generation.

In the meantime, what we’re missing is a battle between two supernovae that have made the league their own before our eyes. And these two are not makeshift, just that nothing has been given. Because older friends are absorbing so much oxygen. Older friends are still very good and deserve attention.

But going back to the question, a third MVP will make Jokic a historic company we haven’t had to talk about in quite a while. NBA MVPs are traditionally clustered together, but only Michael Jordan (5), Magic Johnson (3), Larry Bird (3), and James (4) have accumulated more than three of these trophies in the past 40 years. Individually, they can outperform Jokic over Antetokounmpo, who last won an award in the 2019-20 season, which was historically suspended due to COVID-19. Antetokounmpo is quietly claiming a late candidacy, but it could be too late because Jokic and Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgus-Alexander are off to some head start.

While his mind has yet to be set, Antetokounmpo’s all-around game could close the gap as Milwaukee returns to its usual position after suffering a slump early in the season and first-year coach Adrian Griffin is fired.

Antetokounmpo is a devastating two-way force that has returned in this way, was a former defensive player of the year and has been in the second and top 10 every year since taking his place.

Maybe the final matchup will solidify their existence and the league is better for that. Antetokounmpo is an irresistible force, and Jokic is an inevitable monster that cannot be stopped.

The Nuggets played a rematch last spring after silencing the doubters. It would be a great silence for everyone involved if the Bucks overcome the early drama and let Doc Rivers lead them back to June.

This iteration of the Bucks is treated as if 2021 doesn’t exist, a team that hasn’t overcome the self-inflicted devil along the way. Part of it is that they have won only one playoff series since 2021 and were eliminated in the first round last year with devastating results.

Some of that is earned, but Antetokounmpo deserves the trust here, as does his new running mate Damian Lillard at another level.

“That’s who I want to see in the finals,” Hall of Fame big man Shaquille O’Neill recently told Yahoo Sports. “There are so many questions and content to answer right now, but we have to wait.

“Milwokie’s starting to embrace it, Denver’s in place, they could be the No. 4 seed, they could be the No. 2. But they definitely have a blueprint for how to win a championship, and I can see they want to win it again.”

There’s also the invisible trophy issue, which probably the best international player of all time, Hakeem Olajuwon, still has (if you don’t count Tim Duncan as an international). Some will say Dirk Nowitzki and Olajuwon’s two wins over Nowitzki could be the deciding factor, but it won’t be much of a debate. Who knows if it matters to either side? Jokic never mind profiting off all the hard work he’s done, but he tries to explain how much he doesn’t care about everything outside of the game.

Either way, he’s an historic player and probably the most lucrative commodity in the game today. He’s proven to be able to handle on-field responsibility and pressure at the moment when the highest borrowings are needed, and it’s an almost inevitable force when you get your hands on the game late.

Antetokounmpo has stated many times that MVP doesn’t matter, but he certainly plays like someone who wants verification from the media and basketball world. It’s refreshing to see someone with a hardworking spirit in a space where indifference permeates basketball at all levels and players have become too cool to compete, and where the social media world is too afraid to laugh using their thumb. Time.

Antetokounmpo is averaging 33.6 points, 11.4 rebounds, and 7.6 assists over the course of this short month. This is because the Bucks still don’t have Chris Middleton, who has played in just 43 games due to various injuries (most recently a sprained ankle).

We’ve never seen the Bucks in full and the Nuggets look more likely to be back in the final as a well-oiled machine.

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