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Subtly overlooked concern for Philly in the wake of all those “Their second half is so easy they’ll cruise!” takes is that 1. their team is centered around two guys who’ve never played even half of an NBA season worth of games in year and 2. there games post-AS break are easy, but they have more of them than any other…

I want him to join the parade of aging QBs who have dropped into Minnesota for one last, failed title run.

You can’t tell Scalise that his idea would be “a whole new ball game.” He was fucking shot at a ball game.

Curry’s a no-brainer to me. Feel you on Harden as a SG, but he’s there for me (as in, if you let me start an expansion team with a PG of my choosing, I’d go Harden over Westbrook if those were my options). After that? God I hate Chris Paul, but there’s no denying it.

Fair points. Curious, though - which 5 or 6 PGs would you take over Westbrook? I’d say Curry, Harden (though I still count him as an SG), Paul, but personally I can’t place someone like a Lillard or Irving over him, despite all of my reservations about Westbrook’s style of play.

I’m not a big Harden fan, but I woulda given it to him last year, especially over Westbrook’s blatant stat-mongering and the fact he made a lot of his teammates worse. He’s really good, of course, but there are five or six PGs in the league I’d rather have on my team than Russ. That isn’t really an MVP in my book.

I guess I can respect a 55-win benchmark, though personally I wouldn’t say Harden’s case was unassailable at 55 wins (an 8-win difference over Westbrook’s team). My threshold is probably around 60 wins, because the gap between a 55-win team and a 60-win team is fairly substantial (ignoring classic examples of teams…

I mean, yes, Harden’s been dominant, but Davis’ season hasn’t be a slouch, either. If he manages to pull his team up to the 3-5 seed range, averaging around 40 PPG the rest of the way, I wouldn’t think that an MVP award would be out of the question. His team is just so awful outside of Jrue and the now-injured Boogie…

Great question.

Right?? Like, he needed to put up 53/17 in order to beat the freaking Suns by 9 points, a team that would be better off losing every game for the rest of the season.

I sure hope they make the playoffs, but if you asked me to put money on it, I wouldn’t.

What’s your definition of “legitimate contender”, out of curiosity?

MVP voting ends before the playoffs begin. Also, the playoffs have their own MVP trophy - NBA Finals MVP.

The problem is that there would have to be no clear front-runner in the race already in order for AD to win it without making the playoffs.

I’m not saying that tommy t ruins players, but goddam tommy t ruins players

Did you know that Wayne Gretzky never won an Olympic Gold?

Would you consider Roger Federer to be one of, if not the best men’s tennis player in the history of the sport?