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“Criteria for MVP that applies to Jokic this year, Harden in 2018, D-Rose in 2011?”: A LeBron James fan page asks a reasonable question as The Joker wins MVP over Joel Embiid

Akash Murty
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"Criteria for MVP that applies to Jokic this year, Harden in 2018, D-Rose in 2011?": A LeBron James fan page asks a reasonable question as The Joker wins MVP over Joel Embiid

LeBron James has won several individual laurels to make his resume one of the greatest of all time, but his snubbed MVPs poke his fans more than him.

NBA has an award for the best player of the season that is decided based on the regular season performance by a player.

Generally, a player wins it when he’s been better than other players in the league and also his team does significantly well following his brilliance in that very season.

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Except for maybe 2016, when Stephen Curry won the Unanimous MVP and a few of Michael Jordan’s MVPs, there’s almost no season in which the best player of the league wins this award for some reason. At least their fans don’t believe so.

If it worked the way it should, Kobe Bryant wouldn’t have just 1 MVP and LeBron James might have had more than four. That’s just some bizarre and inconsistent way of deciding one of the biggest awards in the game.

Was LeBron James really overlooked for any MVP award?

An argument sparked on Twitter when a LeBron James fan page started a debate on whether, Nikola Jokic winning the MVP this year over Joel Embiid or James Harden winning the MVP over King James in 2018 was fair. They also brought up his other snubs over the years while trying to find out what’s common among those MVPs each year.

Twitterati was ready with the answers. Some had the right answers and some were bang on.

Although James should have many won more MVPs considering he has been playing at the top for 19 years relentlessly, he might have lost it because of voter fatigue which has robbed many other NBA legends of the deserved reward, including Michael Jordan.

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Akash Murty

Akash Murty

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An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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