From the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Phoenix Suns’ Kevin Durant, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis, and perhaps the early leader, Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic who have also made some very solid cases to win the award. The host of the semi-eponymous “Hoops Tonight with Jason Timpf” podcast recently took a closer look at where he sees each in the MVP race early in the season.

Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what he had to say about where Tatum is in that race.

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