By the way, not once in here did I say Harden didn't deserve the MVP. If I had a vote, he would have gotten mine.
Well that kind of makes sense since the award is for the regular season, not the playoffs. I wonder who Matt Barnes voted for?
Years from now (not many years mind you) the players and not the media will vote on mvp, the players choice award is the first step to that. It was originally a player award that was given to the media to try and get them involved in a dying sport, now, they're a bunch of sychophantic **** bags and they need the nba more than the nba needs them.
This is the best recognition a player could get, being named MVP by his peers and not biased agenda-driven media members. Congrats to Harden! With that said, how's the league going to live with this sort split MVP honors? From a marketing point how do you advertise the MVP Curry when his peers disagreed? This has the makings of the WBO/WBC/WBA type nonsense where the awards are disputed and diluted to the point of irrelevance.
Almost every player who won actually said it meant a lot because it's coming from other players. Why would you care what the media thinks? The other award has more flash than substance. Over time I see these awards having more prestige than the NBA awards.
Anyone who watches ESPN at all knows that they and most media like Stephen Curry and the Warriors much more than James Harden and the Rockets. Seems weird to me that the "normal" MVP isn't voted by players, it seems like it makes so much more sense. But we all know that MVP is usually "best player on best team" and since it is voted on by the media, it will usually go to the player/team that had more media coverage. Feels good knowing that the actual players recognized Harden as being the true MVP of the league. Obviously big picture it doesn't really matter but I would just use it as motivation if I were Harden.
The media are sheep. If they would have heard ahead of voting time that the players all thought James was the MVP, that would have swung the vote more in Harden's favor. Who knows how much, but it would have swung the vote for sure. Anyway, the other MVP award is spilled milk. Let's enjoy this one.
Ask an actor, writer, doctor, or architect, everyone would say it's a higher honor to be recognized by your peers.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So James Harden wins MVP. He's the PLAYERS MVP. He beat out Curry,Westbrook,LeBron.Would you rather be the players or media's MVP ?</p>— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkJonesESPN/status/623672569850257408">July 22, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I'd rather be the players MVP. Not the media's.Too many media don't know difference between a horns set,or pistol,flare screen vs rip screen</p>— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkJonesESPN/status/623674000045027328">July 22, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
