NEW YORK (AP) — NBA general managers overwhelmingly expect the Oklahoma City Thunder to be the league's first repeat champion in nearly a decade, while Denver's Nikola Jokic is their pick to reclaim the MVP award and Miami's Erik Spoelstra was once again the pick as best coach.

Those were among the findings of the league's annual preseason polling of general managers, the results of which were released Thursday.

The Thunder got 80% of the vote — teams could not vote for themselves or their own personnel in the survey — in response to the question of which team would win this season's title. No team has gone back-to-back since Golden State in 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Cleveland and Denver each got 7% of the vote, while Houston and New York each 3%. MVP

The GMs were clear: They expect anothe

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