The NBA is back, and with it comes a new batch of predictions. Bleacher Report asked our best basketball minds to place their votes for every major award this season from MVP to …

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Luka Doncic’s sizable MVP share is probably the least surprising development in this whole exercise.
This is just his third season, and he is only 21, but it feels like his time. His superstardom is still novel, protecting him against voter fatigue, and he headlines a Mavericks team that in no way downplays his candidacy. If anything, Kristaps Porzingis’ recovery from a torn meniscus and career’s worth of spotty health only adds to Doncic’s indispensability. He’s still a one-star show in a duos league, fighting to keep Dallas not just relevant but near the tippy-top of the brutal West.
It also helps that the field of contenders could organically thin itself out. So many of the usual candidatesGiannis, LeBron, AD, Kawhi, KDmay see their MVP stocks fall by the wayside as their team shields them from too much volume amid a truncated season, or they may suffer from voter fatigue themselves.
Doncic may have to contend with fellow one-star operations, but his team is more likely to pull a better conference finish than, say, Stephen Curry’s Warriors or maybe even Jayson Tatum’s Celtics.
MVP Odds: +410
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