RWO is in full swing. They hate us cause they ain't us. Let Curry get his MVP, Harden is hunting for bigger game here.
Curry. Harden deserves it more, if you want the literal MVP, but Curry is very deserving as well and he's also a safe pick because of Warriors' success.
You could see Harden and the Rockets are no longer thinking about the MVP race but about winning. This year has been a breakout year for him not only in terms of stats but more so in maturity. Not a coincidence
Both Curry and Harden have taken their games into the playoffs. Why not co-MVPs then? http://uproxx.com/dimemag/2015/04/2015-nba-mvp-james-harden/ Stephen Curry is a better shooter than James Harden (I know, HOT TAKE ALERT), but the Warriors’ offense is so deadly overall that he still gets to catch-and-shoot more frequently, and is more open on average than Harden. According to NBA.com‘s player tracking data, 21 percent of Steph’s three-pointers were catch-and-shoots, compared to 14.7 percent of Harden’s. Both of them shot about 5 percent better on those attempts than pullups. In addition, Steph took 15.3 percent of his three pointers while wide open, which NBA.com defines as having no defender within six feet of him. Only 7.1 percent of Harden’s three pointers were wide open. Steve Kerr designed the Warriors’ offense to get Stephen Curry open shots. When he doesn’t have the ball, he runs all over the floor, over and under and around screens until he gets an opening (and the ball), and then he fires. James Harden will curl around a screen every so often, sure, but the Rockets’ offensive strategy is simply giving him the ball. Full stop. So when Harden got the ball, he mostly did so while facing a defense focused solely on him. He’d take a deep breath and barrel straight into that defense over and over again, night after night, to a heroic extent. He wasn’t Shaq or Howard, a player so big that defenders bounce off of him. Harden knew he would get hit, and he knew that it would hurt, and he did it anyway because the Rockets needed him to. And save the flopping complaints for somewhere else – everyone flops. You don’t need me to go into all of the usage statistics that point out how much more of a burden James Harden shoulders than Steph Curry. All of the fourth quarters that Curry sat out because the Warriors were so dominant with him reduce their meaning. Plain and simple, the Rockets needed James Harden more than the Warriors needed Stephen Curry. Of course, Harden wasn’t the “most needed” player in the NBA this season; Russell Westbrook takes that crown. But James Harden took the Rockets higher than Westbrook took the Thunder, and he was better in every statistical measure that doesn’t count towards a triple-double. At this point, Stephen Curry is a better player than James Harden. But in my inexact triangulation between a player’s quality, his team’s success and his relative contributions to that success, Harden is the MVP.
Stephan a smith, "klay Thompson is avg. 20pts this season, with rockets injuries the next top scorer next to harden for a big part of the season was ariza with 12pts a game" Guy from his&hers, "steph had a splash brother, harden is a only child" I'm curious to see how people vote behind closed doors tho for this although I think it will be steph
I think Harden deserves it, but Lebron is and has been the most Valuable player in the NBA since the moment he stepped on the court. Lebron turns lottery teams into contenders and contenders into lottery teams pretty much by himself. I'm not saying he wins championships by himself, but he can turn a scrub team into a contending team just by joining it.
Not a knock on Leborn....but if you put Harden, Durant, Curry on any of the lottery bound EC teams, they would automatically be a contender
