donnieme wrote:FinnTheHuman wrote:donnieme wrote:He's right to an extent. Not about Lebron winning it but that voters are the media and are very prone to narrative bias
Here are the voters from last season. https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2020/09/2019-20-Kia-NBA-Most-Valuable-Player-Voter-Selections.pdf
Windhorst, Wilbon, Candace Parker, Sam amick, elhassan, broussard etc The voters are the guys you see on TV daily
Yeah, but somehow the majority of voters always ends up voting for the deserving player, and the deserving player wins. Most of these people don't want to be labeled "corrupt" by voting for the undeserving media darlings.
We'll see if the push for Jokic gains traction in the coming days. If not he'll probably have to finish with a higher record to solidify it. The stuff about deserving candidate is subjective. They always go for the person with a higher record. Harden should have won it in 15 but they gave it to Curry for having the better record, in 2017 Harden had the better record but they decided to ditch their own criteria to give it to Westbrook as an 8th seed for averaging a triple double. Harden was my deserving candidate those two years. I however don't think Lebron is undeserving if the Lakers for example finish significantly higher in the standings (now very unlikely). That's just following the established criteria for 9 of the last 10 MVPs
That's established criteria when 2 players are close statistically. Otherwise Gobert and Mitchell would be candidates number 1 and 2. But Jokic and Lebron are not close statistically, Jokic is leading in 99% of the stats by a hefty margin, be it advanced stats or regular stats. These journalists voting don't want to be clowned for the rest of their careers for following an unfair agenda, even tho you wish they would.
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