re: What could Derick Rose have benn?

Dwight was better than both of them and should've been MVP.

Rose won basically because he had the best surrounding cast that actually knew how to play with each other from the beginning of the season.

Though I suppose you could make the argument that he did as much to improve his team as any other MVP winner if you ignore his defensive numbers.

Offensive ON/OFF differential of past ten MVP winners:

'16 Curry (obviously going to win): +16.4 Pretty sure this would be some kind of record
'10 LeBron: +15.3
'07 Dirk: +14.6
'15 Curry: +14.3
'09 LeBron: +13.0
'12 LeBron: +12.4
'13 LeBron: +11.9
'11 Rose: +10.1
'15 Durant: +9.0
'08 Kobe: +6.2