Similarly, this amazing tweet:

Relevant, the greateast tweet of all time:

No, for the very reason you say Curry or James should have the MVP, I say they shouldn’t. The MVP goes to the player most valuable to his team. Remove Curry or James and those teams still make the playoffs... remove Westbrook and OKC is probably worse than Brooklyn... Westbrook MVP hands down. Harden is a chump.

To be fair, he says everything with that level of intensity,

I tried to explain Gaelic football to a co-worker once. Her reaction was “that sounds like something a bunch of 7 year olds made up one day in the backyard”. She wasn’t wrong.

I guess I didn’t realize that the reputation of MVP voters was at risk every postseason. It’s an award based on past performance, not a predictor.

he said it in a “the only way this makes sense is if he was drugged” kind of way. his main point was that he thought Harden quit.

He did posit it...sort of? It’s really hard to tell if he’s being sarcastic because he never adds any inflection, he just keeps shouting. If I had to guess, I think he meant it in jest....probably.

He was there with his inner circle: family, friends, agents—all the people who ran his professional life...

This is a reminder that a call up to AA would mean Tim Tebow is a proud Binghamton Rumble Pony, which is just fantastic.

Well, luckily it’ll be Westbrook who gets the MVP, not this sad sack of a beard.
Besides, if we only gave the MVP awards or any seasonal awards to the best teams, than nobody would care for the awards. You’re telling me that LeBron, who’s been playing a soft conference all year deserves MVP over Russ? Who’s been…

This is an awful argument all around. Especially in regards to anybody in a Warriors uniform. The more stacked your team is (and by my calculations they are literally the most stacked team in NBA history), the less “valuable” any single player is. The only name you mentioned that would even remotely make sense in the…

Ummm.....90% of wins, if not more, are “walk-off” defensive wins. That’s how a baseball game usually ends, be it a 6-3 groundout or a 7-2 laser.

Not really—-Francesa makes that argument at least once a day, but its the ‘Most Valuable Player’ award. Not ‘Best Player in the League’—- in which I’m pretty sure most basketball fans would pick Lebron, even haters like me.

I pity whoever wakes up next to James Harden, because there is not an inch of that bed that he didn’t shit all over.

“Uh, preferably not like Brandon Knight?”

This is demonstrably false. A-Rod’s dWAR at SS before coming to the Yankees was 8.8. Jeter’s over the pre-2004 span was -2.5.

They had nearly identical fielding % at SS, but their defensive WAR was quite different:

+1 reference in the third per2on

I liked that time he forced a better shortstop to play third base for the rest of his career.