The Deep 3 Podcast - The Last 20 NBA MVPs Explained In 1 Word | TD3 Clips
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We are going to explain the last 20 NBA MVP's in one word or less.
Actually, there's no less than one word.
All right, Shaq.
One word or less.
We get facial expressions.
But yeah, I'm going to say the last 20 NBA MVP's.
We got to describe them in one word based on, you know, how they won the MVP, the storyline.
Whatever means to you, encapsulate the MVP season in one word.
2025, Shea.
ORA.
I go.
hating
yeah hating
what's the opposite
the people's champ
villain
villainous
maybe a little villainous
people gave it to him
begrudgingly
people really wanted to give
to Nicole Yokish
that's the best
begrudgingly
against my will
if they had to give
the MVP
fully deserved it
every NBA fan
that doesn't live in
Oklahoma or isn't
on this couch
really hated
for some reason
they decided he was
the villain
everything wrong
with basketball
and the way it's
played today
he's the only one
to ever draw foul
and they wanted Yokic to win MVP
but Shea was undeniable and he got it
fully deserved but he wasn't embraced by fans
as many other MVPs were especially
in their first MVP season
usually you have to win a few to get like
people to start disliking you winning one
first time they were like
this guy
I will say it is funny though
whenever somebody says that tweeting
they're like guess where She's at right now
that shit is fine
that is a good joke
and a lot of jokes are dishonest and are annoying
that's dishonest and funny
like that was like worth it
68 and 14
tough man
one word to describe it
dominant
like this is one of the most
dominant seasons
as a team and a player
67 and a half true shooting
is fucking bonkers
for 32 points per game
fuck man
six assists too
well many 68 games
like I can't believe
people thought he didn't win MVP
like that combination of things
to be that efficient
that much of a score
while your team is that good
just crazy
and defense
good about defense
yeah
lockdown defender
I'm kidding
overwork glazing
but
Yeah, okay.
That would make sense.
That one's easy.
Carry on.
2024, Yokic.
These numbers feel so pedestrian compared to what he's doing now.
That's so weird.
He leveled up and stop winning MVP.
26, 12, and 9?
Ugh.
Fucking bum.
Pretty amazing still.
Fake.
I'm gonna go fake.
Because the numbers don't seem real.
Yeah.
And everything that you guys just said of like,
these numbers look pedestrian compared to what he's doing.
The past five years, every time you look at a Yokin stat lines,
like, how is this actually happening?
It doesn't feel like an actual player.
I'm going to go stamped.
When he won this third MVP, it's like, oh, okay, this is one of the top 15 greatest players of all time.
Three MVPs in a ring is crazy.
When you get the third one, it's like, oh, no, you're a verified air.
Only a handful of guys have ever done that.
Man, you say Stamped.
I'm going to say Enigma.
Like, he's just fucking special, bro.
No one's ever seen this combination of scoring, rebounding in.
Playmaking from that fucking position.
At such a high level, especially, too.
What a guy.
My king.
What a legend.
My blubbery goat.
Rob Luca.
My bad.
That's two words.
That's two words.
2023, Joelle and Bede.
Farse.
Fars.
Fraudulent.
Fraudulent.
Scammer?
Stolen?
Stolen.
Merchant.
No, honestly, this one was like owed.
Like, people felt like,
Joel Embed was like, it was his time when MVP was a thing.
It was a very close race than him and Nicole Yokic.
Joel Abed had a very worthy MVP season.
The problem is so did Nicole Yokic and people like him more.
I think he's marginally better.
So when it's close to a tie, people want the better player to get it.
Joel Lentby was fully deserving an MVP, but I think the tiebreaker in reality was that he didn't have one yet.
Perkins.
Perkins.
Layaway.
M.P.
He lay away for sure.
But yeah, I think because we talk so much about how Nicole Yokich was a better player
and maybe more worthy in your eyes.
We act like Jolumbi didn't deserve it.
This is clearly MVP numbers.
65% you're shooting for 33 points.
That's still fucking nuts.
Like that's crazy.
Damn, man.
This season was nuts.
Like this is one of the most skilled big man I've ever seen.
Oh yeah, this is a hardened year too, right?
Man, special.
Four assists per game.
He's playing a little bit more early in his career.
He had kind of a black hole that couldn't pass out of double teams.
That came around.
This is when his handle was nuts.
The mid-range jumper was nuts.
This is still one of the best players of all time.
Yeah, and I think this was the year where
rookie wemby walked into his building and he gave him fucking 70
yeah that was the next year was it yeah because last that
Wemby's Rumba wasn't a league yet he had 70 he gave Wemby 70
on the way to buy three back to back but then he got hurt
Wemby wasn't illegal it went away went to 20 yeah yeah yeah he was after this
but he had a game against the yeah everybody 70 this year felt like
damn he had a game against the jazz I think that he went crazy where he might
have scored 70 23 I don't think he scored 70 again but he probably had something
yeah something crazy something crazy
He had a bunch of crazy games.
Yeah, I got, I got it.
God damn, man.
If he didn't get hurt that in that year 24, God damn.
Yo, I was just looking at those stats.
Yeah.
The fact that he won up this season,
yeah, crazy.
It was 35 for like 35 games before he went down.
Oh, yeah.
It was his career high that he set,
that he set before the 74 game,
59, 11, and 8 with seven blocks.
My God.
You know, I'm going to change my word.
2023 overshadowed.
People, the controversy overshadowed,
the fact that Duel and Bid did have one of the greatest
problems of all time.
Yeah.
22, Nicole Iokic
Yeah
22
4834 this is when
his players were all hurt
on his team
It was him and Aaron Gordon
Because Jamal Murray
and MPJ were out for the year
He carried
No word backpacked
This season was all about
carrying his team
To the playoffs when his team
Was completely depleted
Just like Russell Westbrook's MVP
This is the next version of that
Yeah I think my word is like
Burth
He like officially entered the conversation
entered the conversation for like being close to or entering the conversation before looking
like an all-time player putting up 27, 14, and 8.
And I think they were like, what, a five or six seat or something like that as well?
So wins wasn't necessarily there.
But when it comes to realizing his all-time stats and all that, it was undeniable.
Yeah.
Are we getting it backwards of 21?
Which one was the one where Jamal Murray and APJ missed the whole year?
20.
No, this year.
Okay.
Because, no, we got hurt at the second half of 21, right?
Yeah, going into the playoffs.
Yes, okay.
Okay.
This is the second MVP or first?
Second.
Second.
Yeah.
Two MVP.
Yeah, he was, he was over, like, Compos on this one.
Two MVP's gets you in these conversations, man.
Two of compasos was crazy.
It was like Composso.
I think, uh.
Compazo, KCP.
Was KCP here at the time?
I think so.
Yeah, he was.
When they trade for him?
I think it was here.
I think it was end of 2022, I think.
End of 22, I think.
Okay.
So it would be.
Actually, I don't remember.
Maybe I'm wrong.
It would have been at the end of this year going into the, into the title of year with
KCP.
They traded for him in the summer.
They're traded for Aaron Gordon at the end of one of these years at the deadline.
KCP was the next summer, I think, from the Wizards.
Yeah, they dropped Will Barton for him.
Shout Will Barton.
And these years kind of fucking blend together.
Yeah, no.
I'll go narrative for this one.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, 2021.
His first MVP.
This one was just like.
Welcome.
Welcome to greatness.
Welcome to being one of those guys.
For a couple years, it was bubbling up.
He went crazy in the bubble against the Lakers.
It was like, oh, this guy's becoming a star.
Welcome to being one of the goats.
Elevated is when you definitely start to see Yokic, you know, again, elevate himself over a lot of the other players, a lot of the other, you know, really good bigs in that era and become one of the 10 best players in the world.
Is he lapped 80?
Yeah.
I was going to say my word is going to be leaps.
This is where he officially entered these conversations and he was one of the five best players in the world for real.
Mm-hmm.
20-Jannis.
Dominant.
Shack.
Yeah, officially just Shaq.
Gen Z Shaq.
This is the DPOI, you're right, the second one?
Yep.
Yeah, just dominant.
That's the only way you can say.
Both sides of the ball, one of the best plays you've ever seen.
How many players have we ever seen that have been this level defender and score?
It's so rare.
It's like seven all time.
Not even.
This level is score and defender?
I think it's like two or three.
30 and DPOI?
Yeah.
Really one other ones.
Steven Jordan.
Hakeem, him Jordan,
really him and Hakeem.
I don't know that I haven't seen
I don't remember his actual efficiency
for those years.
I don't think even Hakeem was as good
of a score relative to his era
as Yonis is like
it's tough
like he's scoring leader
and DPOI type season is tough.
I don't know when's the next time
we'll see this level of play
from someone.
Please get him to a good team, please.
He's not done.
He can keep doing this.
Please.
He has to want it.
Wembe got us, man.
Wemby got us.
We're good.
I hope so.
I doubt it though.
2019.
I think this one is
flawed.
One word.
I'm gonna go flawed.
And that's really going to the playoffs.
This is back when Janus
was getting bounced out
from the wall and shit
in the playoffs every year.
And people were like,
can you win without a jump shot?
I don't know.
That was all the conversation
of is this MVP guy
ever actually gonna do something?
Yeah, I remember.
I remember.
I really,
maybe that should have been 2020 more.
But yeah.
We'll go.
we'll go Bledsoe here
Bledsoe
Because yes the wall
Was a thing
Eric Bledso also was horrific
In the playoffs
Also this is back when he was
Dunkin on everybody every five seconds
Now he dung us a lot less
This is back when he was like
Reach over people
And like drop it on their head
Something just freak
I think this
It was this year
The year prior
He jumped over Tim Hardaway Jr.
Oh
Was that a Christmas game?
No it's just a regular
Like I remember Chris Middleton
Through the LOP
I think
I remember I think it was before this
The 2018 playoffs I think
was his first like real coming out to all NBA level year.
I think he played the Raptors in the playoffs.
And I remember being like out of rush
like Buffalo Wobics or something.
And seeing on the screen,
he had like dunked like over two people in the rim
just like reached over them.
And that was when we just started seeing him
being able to like dunk while standing up.
And I was like, I have never seen this a day of my life.
Yeah.
I think he officially started to become a problem this year.
Yeah.
2018 James Hardin.
I'll say owed for this one.
Because there were a lot of,
a lot of years where James Hardin
his squawr was up there his assist was yeah i'll say finally he finally got his MVP yeah and so you
you like you can make the argument that this should have been a brown year but with the year that
james hardin was having it's like all right we we should probably get him one no yeah they're the
second best team in the west the only team to rival the warriors this was 100% his year finally
got it the team success was good enough his production was good enough wasn't overshadowed by one
the best stepf curry seasons of all time finally this is the definition of deserved br like he's
been routinely a top five player in the league.
He's broke the NBA
at that point in time in so many different ways.
People were fucking guarding him from behind,
from the side.
Can you know how insane that is?
Rugbyo was on defense, hip-thrustin.
Josh Hart was on defense just trying to figure out
what the fuck to do too.
No, that was the next year, but still,
crazy. Was it next year? Yeah, it was 2019.
That's when everyone was going. That's when he got better, but didn't win MVP.
Yeah. Because Janus was
two-way demon. People did
these. People still think Yachton should want MVP in 2019.
Yeah.
That's when he was averaging 40.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's not do that.
Don't want to open up those wounds?
That's stupid.
2017 Russell Westbrook.
Revenge.
Good word.
This is one, there's a lot of words to describe it.
Oh, this one also, my bad, purely.
Not purely, but this one, narrative.
Narrative, it's the definition of a narrative, you're right.
And this one is, I'm going to use several words, out the mud, just like finding a way to get wins with nothing around you.
Backpacking is one word.
Carrying.
That's what this MVP is all about.
It was about carrying.
The only thing you referenced in this season was who he had around him and the fact that he got his normal numbers with bullshit lineups got it done anyways.
Pure carry job.
Records.
Legendary.
All of that.
Legendary for sure.
ORA.
This is the most ORA MVP.
He won it because of ORA in many ways.
Specifically, like one of his last games that he played this year, he knocked out the Denver Nuggets while also hitting a game winner on them from like 35 feet.
He did that game.
And drop 50 that game.
Yeah.
It was a 50-point triple double game.
This season is about moments.
Legendary.
Narrative, legendary moments.
You remember where you were for this season.
I'm going to say overhated, just real quick.
Overhated.
Because I remember I was making content during that time.
The amount of think pieces everyone was getting off on Russell Westbrook and the hate.
Yeah.
He didn't deserve it.
In hindsight, he did not deserve all that hate.
Yeah.
Respected.
That's another one.
People will respect the hell out of this season.
You have to.
It's like this in D.
The repos, MVP is probably the most respected MVP seasons in 2016.
All right, next one.
We have
Oh, there you go.
Steph Curry 2016.
Unanimous.
Goat.
This way's one of the greatest
offensive seasons of all time.
Shooter.
Unstoppable.
Oh, my God.
Broken.
Broken.
I was about to say that.
2K.
The fucking game.
Gamer.
Unfatherable.
How?
Wizardry.
Erect.
Light skin.
Okay.
That went the wrong way.
Peter.
Lightskin
This might have been like the peak of the light skins
The light skin, you're right
It's just the peak of the
Just like as a people
I had a terrible time in life
In basketball
In basketball
I don't know if there's ever been
A moment for light skins
That's better in 2015
Well they can't say they have the only unanimous MVP
So like
Yeah it's up there
It's hard to do better
It's up there
This is a season that changed basketball
In every way
Yeah
And his
Yeah
It never mind, but yeah
You better start glazing.
You go ahead.
Go ahead, get out for chest.
No, it wasn't glazed.
No, what's he that? I'm actually interesting.
It wasn't glazed.
Get out for chest.
Okay.
No, it was more like Umar stuff.
Yeah, I don't.
I mean, and like, you talk about light skins, people like, they're soft and weak or whatever.
Like, Sep Curry, he's not like some like super strong guy.
So it's like the stereotype of what a light skin do looks like, he is that light skin.
So you're saying him and Drake in 2016 made it okay to be soft?
Views did come out that year.
Feel no ways and Curry when an MVP came together it made it okay to soft controller and one dance and now you just have these lightskins everywhere whining like this is this is the peak of light skin as a culture yeah right Kelly Uber was at his peak too yes right because Kelly Uber was that almost
he was like one of the first players is just new era and his peak is being sexy yeah exactly
Steph Curry made it cool be really good and to shoot Kelly Uber made it real be real cool to be hot exactly
Who's to say, which is more important?
Next up, 2015, Steph Curry.
Maybe.
Arrived.
Arrived, yeah.
I will say.
Surprising, also?
Surprise.
Yeah.
I see that.
What's the word for something that came before?
Like the pre-something?
Precedent?
No.
Precedent?
Before the main course.
Appetizer.
This is the appetizer before the 2016 main course.
This is just a little.
drop-butt you got before you got the full load. This is
the little microversity curry
you got before you got the legendary season.
He said micro-currie.
This was a taste.
In 2016, was the whole load.
This is the definition of a breakout
basis, which you're saying, yes, I agree.
But it was like a breakout before the breakout. Like, 23
points for game, he was obviously shooting crazy, 67
wins, but we didn't know that another
breakout was coming right after this. Yeah.
It was baby steps.
You're so disgusting.
I just respect Paul
years.
2014 Kevin Durant.
It's such the same that this is his only MVP,
but also makes sense why it's his only MVP.
Yeah, yeah, when you join Steph Curry the next year,
a couple years later, it's kind of hard to win more.
Your best years are spent next to Curry on a super team.
It's hard to win MVP's.
Definition of a bucket this year, though.
Yeah, just machine, scoring machine this year.
This is one of the best scores you will ever see in your life.
Everything they say about young KD and how, like,
he was the prototype, had no flaws.
It's all true.
Yes.
It's all true.
Prototype is, he's the definition of prototype.
You have no idea how many players.
after this year.
Well, really it was like two years after this.
That started to get drafted,
trying to mold their game around fucking KD.
Yes, they're going to tell stories
and make legends of young KD
later on when he's retired.
They'll all be true.
Yeah, you got guys like Chet modeling his game after KD.
Wembeach's a couple of games ago said,
yeah, Katie was my favorite player growing up.
You got the BIs.
You got, at one point in time,
people thought Jayden McDaniels or Jayden Daniels
is going to be, no, Jaden McDaniels.
I keep getting them confused.
Was going to be like the next version of KD.
It's disgusting.
Also, loved.
People forget because he ruined his reputation.
in Golden State.
He was adored on OKC.
This is one of the most popular
loved players in the world.
I'll go thunderstruck.
Nice.
Lovely.
Yeah.
It's crazy because all the plays
they're going to say about Katie in 20 years,
it's all going to be true.
Like you, anything they say,
like, that's the best score I've ever seen.
He can do everything.
And the biggest bag was really the best player,
just yada, yada.
He can.
It can all be true.
Yeah, complete.
Like, he's going to age so well.
If you go back, like,
it's always crazy when you see somebody,
when you see these players that are like still obviously super super effective,
but you go back like five years prior and you see how fast they were moving.
This is now 12 years removed from his MVP.
And you see the twitchiness how high he was jumping over people.
Like it was a different.
His ball handling, how tight the crossovers were.
It was ridiculous.
How low he was able to get two on those.
My goodness.
He was pulled out of Ramal Crawford moves like that how tight it was.
It was crazy.
2013 LeBron James.
Goat.
Missile.
mercenary killer
oh mercenary villain
villain
well he dropped that after this year
so you think 2012 was a villain year
2013 wasn't yeah
peak yeah
peak yeah
yeah
peak is the right word
this is this might be the peak of basketball
this might be the best version
the best player of all time
you might it might be impossible
to find a better season than this
unstoppable
go
god
unfathomable
king I want to say complete
deity
Batman
I remember
who's that
he jumped he jumped
He jumped over.
Superhero.
He jumped over somebody in this year, I believe, too.
John Lucas?
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
Metaphysical?
Galactic?
Intergalactic.
Oh, shit.
Interdimensional.
You saw in space jam.
There's no aliens.
There's no, there's no fictional beings.
Omni present.
What do you think his numbers would be like today if he was playing in the league with all that spacing?
Right now, Pyle LeBron?
Yeah.
Well, he wouldn't have 75 because he still wouldn't be.
Like he would still be a pass first guy
I think whatever just moved like 30
But the efficiency would be insane
So the same as his young numbers
He probably average 32 about that
Lucas shoots more than him
So he's not getting to 34 number
But 32
9 assists 9 rebounds
Right 8 rebounds
Probably about the same as he always
Was rebounding was
Damn man
True shooting though would be like 70
Yeah he might hit 70
Yeah he's a physicist
Would be out the fucking
If she can hit 67
LeBron would hit 70
Damn man
Yokish hit 70 in the year
He didn't win MVP
one of them.
Yeah.
This is.
It's up there.
2012, LeBron.
How many more words you could think of?
Nightmare.
Nightmare.
Now this is the villain one.
Hate it for sure.
But it was like fake villain.
He wanted to be the villain.
This is redemption.
This one also is still not villain.
Because he dropped the villain.
Oh, after you lost.
Yeah.
He was like, I wasn't myself.
Like, I was trying to play into this thing.
And I'm just not that guy.
Okay.
So, no, redemption is the word, though.
season is all about redemption, about finding his way back into the goat debate after he had
the worst loss of any all-time greats ever had in 2011, pure redemption art.
Got clamped up by J.J. Barreya? That's what's worse. It's like, you can just play bad,
but the fact that we can say the eighth man on that team was small, white, and he punked you,
tough. Yep, ultimate disdain. Fuck the DPOI, rim protector, fuck Dirk. It was J.J.
Borea. And we're always going to say that. It was J.J. Bray and Jason Terry.
Yeah. We're going to say this. Dot in his eyes. The smallest guys are the ones who locked you up.
The ultimate stand on any superstar's fucking career, bro.
And then this came back.
Redemption.
Yeah.
I was going to say only 46 and 20?
I forgot. Short and season.
Yeah.
Lockout.
Wrong one.
2011, Derek Rose.
Historic, iconic.
Youth.
Midwestern.
Midwester.
Athletic.
I'll say, no, I'll say hope.
This was hope for the Bulls after the in-between era, after Jordan.
They finally had their young hope.
doesn't lead them to a new generation and have them be contenders for 10 plus years.
The new Jordan was here.
Yeah.
I think when I see this version of D-Ros, I'm like, man, explosive.
Like, whenever you think about an explosive young guard, the conversation always starts
to D-Ros and then you go ahead and talk about the Russell Westbrooks, the John Walls, and all that.
But it always starts with them.
Yep.
What could have been?
2010, LeBron James.
Unit.
Just moving different.
Oh, vertical.
I'll say vertical.
The way he was jumping at this time, he's a specimen.
Yeah, the way he was driving and dunking just for ferocity.
Tomahawk.
Yeah.
I'm going headband here.
I'm going whimsical.
This era of LeBron was very fun.
Like, they were dancing in the pregame.
He had all, you know, handshakes with everybody.
He still has handshakes, but you had that, a lot of celebrations that were pre-planned with his teammates.
He was still having somewhat fun.
Oh, I'll say solo.
He had no help.
He was by himself.
It's the year that led him to form into Heald's,
didn't have what it takes to beat the big three in Boston,
be able to contend with all the best teams in the league.
Solo.
Man, stop acting like Moe Williams, was it uprocious?
Stop acting like.
He was an awesome.
I'm not going to lie.
Stop acting like Zendrinas.
Like Big Z wasn't knocked down from 18 feet.
Is Big Z better than Yaka Perto?
Two years ago?
Yes.
Two years ago when Yakaferto was good?
Yes.
Or did he just play with LeBron?
What did he just play with LeBron?
We'd be Pertil!
We never have him so fondly.
Yo, his life would be so different.
If you replaced Moe Williams and Zendrinnis with 2023 Yaka Purdle and 2021 Dilo, does anything change?
Yes, they go out in the first round.
I don't think so.
LeBron might get them exactly as far.
2021 D-Lo, yes.
I put a D-L-State.
Say, All-Star, was that 2019?
2019 D-Lo, and he also had that fake All-Star?
Oh, no, no.
D-L-L-L-L-L.
They went out in this.
second around this year?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Same thing.
Yeah, same thing.
Yeah.
Same guys.
2009, LeBron James.
How many words can we use, man?
Prince.
This is the first MVP?
Yeah.
Have you not watched these highlights recently?
I've seen him every day.
He's so fast.
He's so fast.
09 LeBron.
Oh my God.
Watch those highlights if y'all ever have time.
Dude, it looks like Derek Rose highlights,
but he's fucking six inches taller and 50 pounds every year.
He moves ridiculous.
Nightmare.
Train.
Amazing.
Oh.
No, that was a nasty, sticky tent.
2008, Kobe.
Oh, my gosh, right.
Fire picture.
A jersey is hard.
Why don't they?
They need to bring back.
All it takes is to make the collar white with one color in the middle.
That does so much.
And then the drop shadow numbers.
Bring you back.
The collar is everything.
This one.
Earned.
Oh.
deserved again.
Yeah.
Yeah,
we were going to earn.
Right before this,
he got robbed by Steve Nash, right?
No, people say that,
but he didn't get robbed.
He was third place.
He was third place.
He got robbed.
He got robbed by LeBron.
LeBron was the second.
Yeah, he got.
Steve,
both?
Yes.
It's possible.
You can use one gun to rob two people.
That's what Steve Nash was doing.
For multiple years,
then you let this Canadian get away.
Lock him up.
2008.
Two thousand eight.
Legacy pick
He had to get one eventually
This is a year
He finally got one
Cemented the legacy
He can have MVP
What might say Kobe did the robbing this year
Mm hmm
Of who?
Chris Paul
Ah
Man
Stop talking man
That's lies
That's lies
That's lies
Okay man
Chris Paul was going crazy that year
That's lies
I will say
That's a better take
Than people that say
He should have had
He got robbed
The year before
Whenever he was third place
Hey
I'm a Kobe guy
I don't want to say
Not relaxed.
Neither won a robberies like that.
But that was closer to like a Chris Ball could have got it.
I wanted to say for Derek Rose earlier too, but we went a little bit too fast.
But hey.
Yeah, we just be nice to them because Derek was tired.
So we just, we ignore the fact that Laplace best player.
This guy doesn't respect hoops.
There's a lot of them that we're just like, listen, we respect 11, respect 17.
It doesn't matter about the other guys.
Yeah, it's cool, man, it's cool.
2007, Dirk.
Smooth.
Skilled.
Pressure.
Okay, after 2006.
He had a lot of.
shoulders. Yeah. Had a lot on his shoulders, but also failure. Because he accepted this one at
the crib. That's the craziest thing. Failure. You're right. Number one seed MVP. Sting. You get
bounced out. Stink. Unbelievable. You allowed another franchise to have the ultimate underdog story
at your expense. You were Goliath to their David. That's embarrassing.
Damn. Embarrassing is a word for this MVP season. It's literally,
because Dirk and the Mavericks
could not win that series,
Stephen Jackson runs around like he's pot.
Stephen Jackson has the crowning achievement
of his career. Him and
the Weebly Warriors, that is the best thing
of their career. And now they get
to live on forever. He created
multiple media members.
He gave Stephen Jackson a platform.
He gave Stephen Jackson an origin
story. That's crazy.
2006, Steve Nash.
Stephen Jackson saw that. He goes,
You go swing on me.
2006, Steve Nash.
Efficient.
Robbery.
Oh, whatever.
Blueprint.
Blueprint, for sure.
For sure.
Shaped the modern NBA,
which didn't know it yet.
And efficiency.
Only 18 points for game.
63% true shooting for 2006 is fucking bonkers.
It's like 10% over league average.
That's insanity.
The offense was all about making the most happen,
the least amount of time,
being efficient with their movement,
efficient with their shots.
They were really laying the groundwork.
influential because you can play like this for a year and get your MVP and it would be like a nice
blip but the fact that you have back-to-back MVPs of this playstyle does cement it for the
rest of the league of oh you can actually kind of kind of do this two-time MVP's crazy man
good for him and that's the last one that is the last 20 NBA MVP's
