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surprise?
Somewhere, Harden is
surprise?
I would have given it to Harden, but Curry is also a great candidate. He certainly is deserving.
I wonder how close the voting was....
Harden did more with less talent. But you couldnt beat 67 wins i guess
Legitimate cases can be made for both. They're almost equally deserving, tbh. I gave Harden a slight edge because I thought he did more with less. He carried that Rockets team w/o Dwight for 60 games to the #2 seed in the West in a year that it's the toughest it's ever been. But, Curry had a great season as well and the award usually goes to the best player on the best team, so I digress.
Best player on best regular season team... possibly best team when it's all said and done...
Somewhere, Harden is
The WCF will be interesting
Kind of a lame stat considering his minutes were pretty low thanks to Golden State destroying other teams so badly that fourth quarters were often garbage time.
Harden makes no sense for MVP. If it's best player you give it to LeBron. If it's best player on best team it's Curry.
Why? The term is "Most valuable player", remove Harden from houston this season with an injured howard and they are looking at the lottery. Remove curry, they still have pretty decent role players and a go-to guy in Klay although they will sure be a low seed or even kinda the Suns or NOP.
MVP is always flawed. It SHOULD be the best player and it SHOULD go to Lebron every year since 2009 but it doesn't work that way.
Not even Jordan got it every year when he played during the 90's. I still remember Barkley getting it in '93 and Malone in '97. In both cases Jordan ended up embarassing them on the national stage. Anyways Lebron maybe the best player in the league but he hasn't been dominant the last 2 years like he was at his peak from '08-'13.
It's flawed but shouldn't be the best player. It should be the player that made the most difference. If Lebron didn't make a difference, he's still the best player but wasn't the most valuable player in the league as far as his contributions. Lebron should have won for other reasons, like the fact that the team he left missed the playoffs after making the Finals every year he was there, 4 in a row, and the team he came to that missed the playoffs every year he was gone, is now favored to win the East. That's what "valuable" really means, it's a game changer. I can see if there's no one like that and you start looking at who moved the seeding around by being in the game, but Lebron did a of a lot more than that.
And if you remove LeBron from Cleveland? Removing him from Miami dropped them into the lottery in a horrendous eastern conference.
He's been the best player in the league, hasn't missed the Finals in 4 years. Probably won't miss it this year. I'd call that dominant when you consider the other players in the game can mostly only boast about making the playoffs or having played in the Finals.
I agree with Lebron getting it for MVP because he's really the most valuable player proven by miami and cleveland, I just didn't agree with Harden not making sense if he had won it.
Harden was good for Houston, and due to watering down of the contestants and Lebron being written off because he would have to basically raise the dead now to get MVP again (which he did in Cleveland), but Houston has been in the playoffs before Harden got there. He didn't make that much of a difference for them. I cannot recall the last time they got out of the 1st round though, but we're talking about regular season.
It's speculation to say what the team would have done without Harden. It's not speculation to say what teams did without Lebron.
No crime there. Kudos to Curry.
Im not arguing against Lebron winning it over anyone btw. Just that if Harden won it, for me, he would have deserved it.
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I'm guessing there won't be any more of this going on between the two. #tbt
I didn't want to see that flopping got win the MVP. Half of his points are at the free throw line. There's nothing MVPish about that.
WTFI'm guessing there won't be any more of this going on between the two. #tbt
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