Ja Morant has been making improvements every single year that he has been playing in the NBA. During his third season in the league last year he averaged 27.4 points, 5.7 rebounds and 6.7 assists in 33.1 minutes per game. That is 10 points more than his rookie year.
Former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins thinks that the Grizzlies young star is ready to enter the MVP conversation this season. It seems that the player has similar thoughts.
“MVP for sure,” Morant told Malika Andrews on ESPN’s NBA Today. “I’m not a big individual goal guy, but that’s the one I definitely can say I feel like that’s pretty much everybody’s goal in this league.”
“I feel like it starts at winning. Secondly, being available, being out there on the floor, not missing games. I feel like it’s the top two things for and I feel like as long as I’m doing those two things, I’m definitely in that category of winning MVP,” the 23-year-old point guard said when asked about what he needs to do win to win the prestigious award.
