Quote Originally Posted by Clipper Nation
No. He averaged a triple-double while dragging a garbage team to the playoffs. The alternative was rewarding Frauden's flopping and incentivizing more players to play refball instead of basketball. Anyone who likes real basketball should be glad Westbrook won MVP.
It should have been Kawhi last year. I would even go with harden ahead of Westbrook. Yes, hardens game was ugly but it helps the rockets, thus valuable. Westbrook made the thunder better for sure, just that he hogs the credit through stats and took what would have been contribution from other members anyways; very Kobesque.

Quote Originally Posted by Clipper Nation
The year he won MVP, he led the league in overall win shares, was 6th in defensive win shares, top 5 in TS%, and was an elite rebounder and shot blocker. And that was in addition to his scoring prowess. Honestly, a case could be made that he also deserved to win MVP the year before.
Mcadoo was the original stat whoring mvp. He’s like elvin Hayes reincarnate. Kareem should have won that year but didn’t because of the injuries. Mcadoo stat hogged to make himself look better than he really was. He was better the previous year.