Annual NBA survey: OKC repeats, Jokic as MVP

The yearly NBA.com survey of each 30 of the league's beforehand offices has tapped the Oklahoma City Thunder to support their title.

Like successful ESPN's yearly offseason survey past month, the Thunder were runaway favorites to triumph the title, with 80% wide managers crossed the NBA picking OKC to triumph for a 2nd consecutive twelvemonth - which, if the Thunder are capable to bash so, would people the archetypal clip since the Golden State Warriors repeated successful 2018 that a squad would negociate to repetition arsenic champions.

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets each got a mates of votes, portion the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks each received a azygous selection.

The yearly survey - which goes retired to each 30 teams and doesn't let teams to prime themselves oregon anyone from their ain rosters, meaning nary subordinate oregon squad tin ever get amended than 97% of the ballot successful a class - besides had Oklahoma City and Cleveland arsenic the dense favorites to triumph their respective conferences. Besides the Thunder - who were archetypal connected 87% of ballots, and 2nd connected the remaining 10% - the Nuggets received 10% of the archetypal spot votes and the Rockets received a azygous one.

They were followed, successful order, by the Minnesota Timberwolves, Warriors, LA Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs.

In the East, Cleveland and New York some were unanimously selected to decorativeness successful the apical 3 spots successful the East, with the Cavaliers getting 63% of the archetypal place, 27% of the 2nd spot and 7% of the 3rd spot votes. The Knicks, meanwhile, received 30%, 53% and 13%, respectively.

The lone different squad to person immoderate archetypal spot votes was the Orlando Magic, who received 7%. The Magic were besides picked to decorativeness 3rd overall, followed by the Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics.

Nuggets prima Nikola Jokic, who has finished archetypal oregon 2nd successful the past 5 MVP ballots, was the runaway prime to triumph this year's apical idiosyncratic honor, claim...