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Topic subjectWhat "traditional" criteria? So, not the criteria from like, last year?
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2650687, What "traditional" criteria? So, not the criteria from like, last year?
Posted by Orbit_Established, Sat Apr-14-18 09:20 AM
>If two players have very comparable stats and one of them won
>15 more games in a tougher conference, the traditional MVP
>choice is almost always the one on the better team.

Except when that doesn't happen, which it hasn't, many
times.

>Personally I might vote for LeBron this year. Insanely
>impressed by his 2nd half. But I don't subscribe to the
>traditional "best player on one of the best few teams in the
>league" criteria -- to which there have been almost no
>exceptions (Russ one of the very very few, and he achieved a
>long-mythical, considered-near-impossible statistical feat).