It’s not discounting Ja, it’s just a fact. All he did was improve his scoring. He didn’t improve anything else. DJ improved on 3 areas in scoring, assisting, and defense. I know he made second team D like 4 years ago. He should make it again this year too. But DJ led the league in steals. And was second in triple Dubs. The dude just improved more than Ja improved. Also the Grizz went bananas against the top teams without him. They have a better record without him. And it’s not particularly close. The reason why the Grizz are the 2 seed isn’t primarily bc of Ja, it’s bc of the others in JJJ and Bane. They stepped up their games big time too. You can’t miss a third of the season and be why your team is the second seed. It doesn’t work that way.
Giannis won bc he came into the league averaging like 8 points a game or some . He should’ve won the award. And Ingram I felt was a consolation prize by the media to NO for giving up on AD. Like look you got the MIP. See it was a good trade for both teams
. Bc there’s zero metric where he should’ve won over Luka other than we expected this from Luka