DALLAS — Devin Booker doesn’t need much to get him going.
So he’ll probably use the NBA MVP voting results as fuel after finishing a distant fourth to Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, Sixers big Joel Embiid and Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Tallying 65 of the 100 media first-place votes, Jokic finished with 875 points. Embiid received 26 first-place to finish with 706 points and Antetokounmpo had nine first-place votes in gathering 595 points.While the top three vote-getters were expected, Booker placing fourth will put him in the NBA MVP conversation at the start of next season as opposed to making a late entry at the end of the season like this year.
The three-time All-Star averaged five rebounds, 4.8 assists to 2.4 turnovers and a career-high 1.1 steals in the regular season. Booker averaged fewer than three turnovers for the first time since his rookie year in 2015-16. The Suns went 11-4 without Paul. Booker played in 11 of those games as he missed four in NBA’s health and safety protocols.
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