00:00While I respect the fact SGA is a legitimate MVP candidate and is going to win his back
00:05the second consecutive MVP award, I didn't think the spread should be as great as it
00:11is when it comes to the odds.
00:13You know, and he's a prohibitive favorite to be winning his second consecutive MVP.
00:17And everybody started yelling and screaming at me like, you don't need to, you need to
00:21look at the advanced analytics.
00:22You know, tell me you don't know Bo without telling me.
00:24Shut up.
00:25All right.
00:26And here's why.
00:27I'm not suggesting he's not a good candidate.
00:30He is a damn good candidate.
00:31You know, best player, best team.
00:33He's averaging 30 points a game, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
00:37Seven assists a game, all good, right?
00:39And he's a great player.
00:40And I made an argument for Jalen Brown a week ago.
00:43I made an argument at the time for Cade Cunningham.
00:45But of course, you know, when he had the punctured lung, that kind of ended his opportunity.
00:51But what about Jokic?
00:53Was a case I made.
00:54And I said, if Joker gets to 65 games, and it was debatable whether or not he would, well,
01:01then wouldn't Joker be a legitimate MVP candidate to the point where you could make the argument
01:07one and one A?
01:08Like, I don't think that SGA is so significantly better, or let me put it better, had such a
01:15significantly better season statistically where it shouldn't be close.
01:19So I just happen to be looking at Joker's numbers, Tyrone, now that the year's over.
01:24Do you know that he's the first player in the history of basketball to lead the league in
01:29both rebounds and assists?
01:31Yes.
01:32Let that sink in for a second.
01:34He's also seven feet tall.
01:36He led the league in rebounds, and I'm rounding up a bit here, at 13 rebounds a game.
01:42And he led the league in assists, also rounding up here, at 11 a game.
01:48SGA had seven, six and a half, seven assists per game.
01:51Joker had 11, right?
01:53He is more than double the amount of rebounds, as you'd expect, a big man versus a ball-heavy
01:59point guard, right?
02:01And when it comes to points per game, again, rounding up, Joker at 28, okay?
02:07So, again, if you want to give the MVP award to SGA, I've got no quarrel with that at all.
02:13But the fact that SGA is such a prohibited favorite, and Joker's not in the conversation,
02:21make that make sense to me, because it doesn't.
02:25I hear you.
02:25And I agree with you that he should be right there with him.
02:29And the fact that...
02:30And I think he got his last game of 65, right?
02:32Yeah, yeah, he's all eligible.
02:33So, he's got the 65 games in, so if he was at 64, I wouldn't even bring it up.
02:37Right.
02:38But I think the last game the Nuggets played, he got to 65.
02:41So, he averages a triple-double on the season.
02:44That's only happened, what, four or five times in the history of basketball?
02:48Mm-hmm.
02:48He's tops in rebounds, tops in assists, and was damn near 30 points a game.
02:53So, if you want to pick SGA, I'm not going to argue against SGA, but you can't tell me
02:59that SGA is light years ahead of Joker.
03:04No, it's right there.
03:05Now, the people that will cite analytics, we can use those as well to highlight this point.
03:10They use win shares a lot.
03:12In fact, that has hurt Brown a lot, as far as his, with the stat heads.
03:17Yeah.
03:17And that's why he's not going to really be close, because of win shares and those advanced metrics.
03:22According to win shares this season...
03:24I don't even know what win shares is.
03:26They...
03:27Anyway...
03:27It's a stupid stat nobody's ever used.
03:30This is what they use, though.
03:31Points, rebounds, assists, steals.
03:34Let's look at the big four.
03:36That's what it is.
03:36But they also use usage rate now, how much you have the ball.
03:40They do use that.
03:41Usage, usage, usage.
03:42Like, Luka's the highest in usage.
03:43He has the ball all the time.
03:45Okay.
03:45Brown was second in that.
03:46But, he's right now, SGA's the leader.
03:49The season's over, 15.2.
03:52Okay.
03:52Second in the league, though.
03:54Jokic, 14.9.
03:55Yeah.
03:55And then, after that, the gap jumps all the way down to 11.
03:58So, it's right there.
04:00So, it is close.
04:01I think the other part is, according to the advanced metric, SGA is a significantly better
04:07defender than you.
04:08Again, I don't...
04:09Look, they're both great players.
04:11Yeah, if you want to...
04:12And I want to be very clear about this.
04:14If you want to make an argument that SGA's the MVP, that's fine.
04:18I'm not going to argue against that he's a worthy candidate.
04:21But you can't tell me that he's five to one better than Joker, a three-time MVP already.
04:28Because this year, you're talking 28, 13, and 11.
04:33All right?
04:34Mm-hmm.
04:34He's got more rebounds, as he should, than SGA.
04:37He's got double the assists.
04:39And when it comes to points scored per game, while SGA's got him, he's got him by a bucket.
04:45A bucket and a half.
04:47So, the points per game is pretty damn close.
04:50And SGA's nowhere close to Joker when it comes to rebounds and assists.
04:55So, I want to be very clear.
04:56This is not an argument that SGA should not get it.
05:00It's an argument that the voting should be neck and neck.
05:04And for all you hammerheads on Twitter and Instagram that are going to see us and yell and scream at
05:09me,
05:09as soon as you go to some type of dopey, deep in the weeds, you know, advanced metric,
05:17then you're not a basketball fan.
05:19Basketball is based on the eye test and the four big stats.
05:23Points, rebounds, assists, and steals.
05:27If SGA wins it, Joker better be damn close or you should lose your vote.
05:33That's how close this MVP award should be.
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