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Frank Urbina

Playoff MVP Race: Kawhi Leonard the inaugural No. 1

The 2020-21 NBA playoffs have started off with a bang.

One team is already eliminated, and they were the Eastern Conference champions last year. (If we were doing a Not-Playoff-MVP ranking, that team would feature two players at the top of the list.)

Another franchise has already clawed back from a 2-0 series deficit after both losses took place at home.

The Western Conference champions, meanwhile, suffered two major blows this weekend, losing a crucial Game 4 as well as potentially one of their two best players.

Regardless, today, we begin a new series in which we rank the Top 15 players in the Playoff MVP race, as voted on by all of our writers.

Let’s jump right in.

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