re: Jokic MVP

I am a huge Shaq fan, but he takes pettiness to a new level in these types of things.

Big man is an all time great and there likely won’t be another like him, but he can’t stand that other bigs are getting recognized because of the game being changed. If Shaq could hit a free throw consistently, he may have been the greatest of all time, but he just couldn’t get over that hurdle.

I honestly think a lot of the overblown love for Kobe after his death has also rubbed him the wrong way. People try to prop up Kobe now undeservedly simply because of his untimely death. He was an amazing player, but the credit he is being given now is just stupid.

Kobe could not win anything without a dominant big man for example. Hell, in his second set of titles he needed two and had to have Pao saved his arse in their last Finals only to see Kobe undeservedly get Finals MVP.

In the end, Jokic was significantly more deserving than the others and SGA, while playing great this year, is not that dominant. You keep posting his stats compared to guards in rankings yet Jokic has more assists than him as a center that doesn’t control the ball nearly as much as SGA. Jokic is responsible for more points per game than SGA.

Kid is good and it has been a phenomenal run for OKC, but I would not be shocked to watch them be a sub 4 seed in the coming years consistently.