No. I don't think MVP needs to come from an inner circle title contender, but you should probably be in the top 10 of your own conference before you get to warrant serious consideration
This was my thought, and I don't think it really carries over to All-NBA. Problem is it's gotten really hard to find players with the combination of 1) good enough; and 2) played enough games to qualify. Because if you're not voting Luka once you get out of the top 4 I have no clue how anyone can throw together an argument they care about/believe in for just about anyone else. Tatum hasn't been great for a few months now, but at least he plays every night.
if they were hovering around the 7 to 8 seed and was still playing, I am sure he would be right in the mix around the SGA area. But instead, portland is wasting a career year
Jalen Williams month by month NOV: 10.9 PPG on 51/29/82 DEC: 12.3 PPG on 50/32/69 JAN: 13.6 PPG on 51/33/71 FEB: 14.9 PPG on 50/38/83 MAR: 20.2 PPG on 57/50/87 Pre-ASB: 12.2 PPG on 51/32/76 Post-ASB: 19.8 PPG on 56/46/87
i dont particularly care for or follow mvp discourse but i'm surprised giannis hasnt really entered the embiid-jokic conversation. the bucks have gone 15-4 since the 2.0 straw poll in mid-february and he's lost ground. he's on the title favorite and best team in the league. he's the consensus best player in the league. he's an elite two-way player. and his numbers are outrageous (31/12/6) and even better if you adjust to per36 as he plays fewer minutes than embiid and jokic. the bucks might win 60 games and he still might finish third. crazy!
celtics definitely performing some black magic ritual before bucks games to continue shooting at the clip they are against us
Sometimes MPJ looks like a max guy and sometimes he looks like he should be coming off the bench for the Shanghai sharks tonight he was rough , and Aaron Gordon without a trandscendent passer looks sad
MPJ has a handful of nights like tonight every year. Like legit 0/10 type nights. It's uncanny considering how good of a shooter he is the rest of the time. Gordon is just really good as an off ball guy/defender. He unlocks a lot for Denver with Jokic but yeah he's not great outside that role
this version of the pelicans is going to be a weird matchup imo. cj is their only starter under 6'7 and ingram is a problem for most teams
Wouldn't be surprised if Clippers/Grizzlies gets postponed. SUPER severe weather with possible tornadoes coming through Memphis tonight.
cavs and knicks combined for 89 first quarter points. both jalen brunson and donovan mitchell are over 20 points already with 10 minutes left in the first half
Wizards push the pace and score nearly 100 through 3 Walk it up all 4th and score like 12 points and I miss over by half a point. Dickheads
weird that ads ankle only seems to hurt when he makes a basket and not at any other point when he moves around its almost like hes completely faking it
Can you imagine your franchise being too cheap to pay Jalen Brunson and instead going all in on Kyrie fucking Irving? man, that would be embarrassing!