I found this excerpt the most amusing. Personally, I view D. Howard as being overrated. But, I do agree with this writer's opinion toward the end of this. In my opinion, seemingly every season the MVP is a conversation about the same three or four players with one or two new names brought up to keep it interesting. I mean unless your player wins it, you can careless about following the race during the regular season. Not to mention, that not every deserving player that year ends up winning it. As evident last season when Kobe won it instead of Garnett. As said, it's a joke, it'll be about the same three or four candidates until they retire. Who cares anymore? Last season was the first time I ever paid attention to it somewhat until Garnett went down.
Likewise, the great Bill Russell is quoted in the USA Today article about the MVP race: "If I had to pick, you know what I'd do? For the first time in history, we'd have three MVPs [LeBron, Kobe and D-Wade]."
Not even a guy who won five MVPs by playing defense, blocking shots and getting rebounds mentions Dwight's name.
What's it say about the ESPN-ization of the sports world when Russell can't even appreciate how valuable Dwight's dirty work has meant to his team's success? How shallow have we become as spectators when all we appreciate in sports anymore is the 5-second highlight we see on SportsCenter?
Why not just stop calling it the MVP and start calling it the ESPY?
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