It's not going to take long (or many more games on national TV like last night) before Dame starts getting some real MVP love. I mean, sure, he was 4th 2 years ago and 6th last year, but he was also +2800 to win this year in the pre-season. Giannis is a front-runner, sure, on a team where he's The Man (TM) and they're like mostly undefeated, and Doncic is playing great and is a great storybut Dame putting up 50-burgers or close every night on national TV against playoff teams is getting him some pub. Jackson and JVG were gushing over him last night. The TNT dudes do it all the time. He's finally getting some of the numbers to go with his leadership, and he has a situation where no one doubts he's putting the team on his back and carrying them until their 3 injured starters come back.
He's probably still going to lose to Giannis, but I don't think Kawhi, LBJ or Harden has a much better case than Dame right now, and Kawhi and Luca are slightly injured. Obviously, more to follow, but it's getting to be "how long can this *really* go on?!" time.