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Jokic just won the MVP, which I believe he deserves but it is somewhat frustrating for me. Between The Shaq years and the Pau years, Kobe had some of the most dominant years the league has ever seen. He was the undisputed best player in the world but didn’t win the MVP during that stretch. The logic was always, well his teams were not dominant. They weren’t very good. Well the Nuggets were not dominant, barely avoiding the play in game. While Jokic deserves the award, so did Kobe.
Valid argument since the Nuggets were not a great team.
League needs to change title of award to Player of the Year.
MVP just confuses voters. We have an award for the regular season and the finals but not for the entire year.
Yep, but Lil Stevie got his. I mean got one of Kobe’s and one of Shaq’s.
“The logic was always, well his teams were not dominant. They weren’t very good.”
That’s where everything got screwed up. Seems like hard work don’t matter.
Those years that Kobe missed out on the award were frustrating to me, and that’s why I don’t put any stock to it anymore. It has become a joke to me.
You just have to be in the right circumstances at the right time to win.
The mvp of the season should be the player you’d pick first if you were building a team. The best in the league that year. The finals mvp is the big one though, and renders the other a consolation prize.
That is spot on, John. That’s exactly my thoughts.