NBA News: Watch Nuggets' Nikola Jokic Being Told About Winning MVP Award

Shams Charania of The Atheltic reported that Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets had won the NBA's MVP award.

The Tweet from Charania can be seen in a post that is embedded below.

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic has won the 2020-21 NBA MVP award, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 8, 2021

Later in the evening, The NBA on TNT shared a fantastic clip of the NBA commissioner Adam Silver interrupting the Nuggets' meeting to share with them that Jokic had won the MVP award.

The video can be seen below in a Tweet from their Twitter account.

Nikola Jokic thanks his team after becoming the first #KiaMVP in @nuggets history 🙏 pic.twitter.com/jTzXoOlB0n
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) June 8, 2021

The Suns are 6-point favorites over the Denver Nuggets in Phoenix for Game 2 on Wednesday evening, according to FanDuel.

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