Playoff MVP Race: Kawhi Leonard the inaugural No. 1

HoopsHype ranks the Top 15 players in the 2020-21 NBA Playoff MVP Race, led by Kawhi Leonard in the first edition of the new series.

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.