It’s no surprise that SGA was the clear winner here. As we learned last season, when Denver’s Nikola Jokić barely edged Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in our poll (41.8 percent to 36.9 percent) but was the runaway winner in the official MVP vote (79 first-place votes to 15), there appears to be a gap between how players and media members see this debate. While Jokić was even better this time around, becoming just the third player to average a triple-double for an entire season and doing it in spectacular fashion for the 50-win Nuggets, Gilgeous-Alexander’s massive (two-way) role on the 68-win Thunder was clearly enough to give him the sizable edge here in the players’ eyes. In all likelihood, Gilgeous-Alexander (league-leading 32.6 points per game, along with 6.4 assists, five rebounds, 1.7 steals and one block per game) will win his first MVP. And the majority of players polled, quite clearly, would agree with that outcome.