The MVP

The MVP
Well Stephen Curry won the NBA’s MVP last week and the first unanimous one at that. Curry averaged thirty points, five rebounds, and six assists per game on the best team in NBA history. The Curry lead Warriors were the best regular season team in NBA history and are on pace to be the best team overall in the history of the league. This is Curry’s second consecutive MVP award and second disputed award. Last season the runner-up James Harden and third place finisher Russel Westbrook had a ton of hype behind both of them respectively. This season Harden fell off, but Westbrook led the league in triple doubles and is possibly the most complete player in the game today. Kawhi Leonard came in second and also won the defensive player of the year award. Lebron James finished in third with the quietist season of his career averaging twenty-five points, seven rebounds, and six assists per game. Leonard averaged twenty-one points, seven boards, two steals, and about one and half blocks per game.
Both Leonard and James had zero votes by the writers around the country. I personally don’t believe that Curry should have won the MVP award this season. WAIT, WAIT, WAIT don’t click off the page just yet. I got this idea from Colin Cowherd listening to him one day this past week. He brought up the idea of Lebron being the most valuable player in the league today. I totally agree with him, because of one stat, and that is that the Golden State Warriors are still a good team, if not great team without Stephen Curry. The Cleveland Cavilers are one and five without Lebron. The Cavs are nothing without Lebron James, and the Spurs are a borderline playoff team with Kawhi Leonard. Both Leonard and James are more valuable to their respective teams and possibly the most valuable players in the league with Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis close behind. Don’t get me wrong what Stephen Curry is doing right now has never been done before and possibly might never be done again even with the way that the game is going today. Curry is the first and only player to make three hundred three pointers in a single season. That is an absolutely incredible statistic and is one of those records that will emulated but never repeated. Curry is the only player that might even come close to breaking the record. Curry is a natural scorer in a slim six foot three body and taking the game by storm. Curry hustles, grabs rebounds and throws up twenty-nine-thirty footers and coming down after the made shot and chases the opponent’s best scorer. His ability to have thirty points and have six assists is great. That means that Curry could have scored or assisted on forty-eight of the Warriors points on each and every given night. To have that many points by one player is very important and almost never heard of. I define Curry as the best player in the NBA but not the most valuable.
Sources:( nba.com/stats, basketballreference.com)

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