MVP

As we all know, the race for league MVP this season has been an epic two-horse race almost from the very beginning, as Russell Westbrook and James Harden have each been having all-time great seasons. That makes the decision for who should be honored as the league’s most valuable player extremely difficult, and former league [...]

Whatever you do, don’t suggest to Patrick Beverley that James Harden doesn’t have the NBA’s MVP award on lock. Per The Vertical’s Michael Lee: [tweet https://twitter.com/MrMichaelLee/status/841158496343191552] The MVP debate has been diluted down to Russell Westbrook and Harden. LeBron James needs to be there, and Kawhi Leonard’s argument has picked up steam in recent weeks, but [...]

As the final month of the NBA season winds down, prognosticators around the league and every grouping of NBA fans around the country will participate in the debate: Who should win the 2016-17 NBA MVP award Russell Westbrook or James Harden? The reigning two-time MVP has already given his opinion/prediction on the matter and his [...]

Has an MVP talent ever flown under the radar quite like Kawhi Leonard? Yes, he’s the reigning two-time Defensive Player of the Year. And sure, it was him who finished as a runner-up in MVP voting last season, to Stephen Curry, who had just wrapped up one of the best individual campaigns the NBA has [...]

There are 30 seconds remaining in a tight battle between two of the best teams in the western conference Monday night, one MVP candidate crosses over, pulls up, and nails a huge three-pointer in the grill of another MVP candidate to give his team a 110-108 lead with 25.4 seconds. That’s 37 points for the [...]

Mark Cuban is back to belittling Russell Westbrook. Maybe. The Dallas Mavericks owner said the point guard wasn’t a superstar last May, and now, apparently, he doesn’t believe Westbrook is in the mix for league MVP, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: [tweet https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/838544941915631617] If Cuban’s sentiment is that Westbrook isn’t as valuable as James Harden and [...]

Well whatya know: Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander shares the same MVP sentiments as NBA Twitter. During a conference call about his funding for various local charities, Alexander told reporters that he believes the league’s MVP race is down to James Harden and Russell Westbrook, per ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins: In a conference call with reporters [...]

James Harden is playing out of his mind, and he knows it. Asked for his own MVP pick by SI.com’s Ben Golliver, the 2014-15 MVP runner-up didn’t hesitate to name himself—in a manner of speaking: Harden didn’t pause or blink when asked for his own MVP pick. He simply nominated himself. “The Beard,” Harden told [...]

Damian Lillard is setting a high standard for himself this season. An MVP-level standard, per Portland Trail Blazers writer Casey Holdahl: [tweet https://twitter.com/CHold/status/790298514026737664] Lillard’s individual expectations are pretty typical as far as these things go. Press a superstar for an individual goal and it will likely include one of the single-player awards, perhaps most of [...]

The year before Paul George broke his leg, he was playing the best basketball of his young career. In fact, the Pacers began that season really strong and George looked like an early MVP candidate. But then both he and the team came back to earth a bit. He was understandably tentative on the court [...]