Luka showing why Jokic winning MVP was rather laughable. Jokic is in no question great and a top top top current player but the fact he could only win 1 game in the play offs with a supporting cast similar to Luka shows why he shouldn't have been MVP. PHX is also a superior team to GS.
Why I said towards end of regular season; you really going to give an MVP award to a guy who is going to get crushed 1st round? People held it against Giannis for losing in 2nd round and Conf finals
But voters okay with this dude getting swept 2nd round and losing in 5 1st round. Lol
I don't really care who wins unless I have $ on it and get screwed or something, I think the reason it is such a hot topic now is because there is just so much content that needs to be produced now and the regular season is 5.5 months of mostly useless bball so they have to pound it. So they gotta push something.
The Nuggs team sucks, they didn't have their 2nd and 3rd best players all year and he raised their floor to a 48 win team. Mavs have way better players 2-9.
The award isn't "who is the best player", it is just who was the best/most valuable in that 5.5 months.
Doncic wouldn't have won over Embiid either. Both of them had better years than him, he also punted the first 2 months of the season by coming in out of shape. Yeah, I'd rather have him over both for a playoff series but that just isn't what the award is.
That being said, Doncic will be clear fav next year to win....Probably as low as like +250, anything over that and you snap bet him.