[GRANTLAND] Handicapping the NBA MVP Race

blunto · Apr 4, 2012

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7770130/handicapping-nba-mvp-race

10 POUNDS: The typical MVP trophy (sized like our current one), handed out for a stereotypical rock-solid MVP season: Think Kobe in 2008, Hakeem in 1994, Jordan in 1992, Magic in 1989, any of the three Bird MVPs … just a really good season for a great player.
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One other wrinkle for this "varying MVP trophy sizes" idea: We keep the voting process the same — you vote right after the regular season, with the winner getting announced in Round 2 — but vote for the actual trophy's weight after the playoffs. Why? Because that gives us flexibility to change trophy sizes depending on the postseason results. Remember when the 1995 Spurs won 62 games and everyone decided David Robinson was our MVP, then they gave him the trophy before a Spurs-Rockets playoff game in front of a pissed-off Hakeem Olajuwon?5 You know what happened next: Hakeem eviscerated Robinson for the next four games and rendered that MVP vote obsolete. Robinson should have been downgraded from a 10-pounder to the Wimbledon platter. Same for Karl Malone after the 1997 Finals, Nowitzki after Dallas's 2007 collapse to Golden State, LeBron after checking out of the 2010 Boston series, and so on.
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