MVP Debate
The whole NBA MVP debate is ridiculous. Until the definition of "MVP" is understood the debate is irrelevant. Is the MVP the best player in the league, the best player on the best team in the league, the most valuable player to his team, the player that has allowed his team to exceed expectations the most, or a combination of all these factors? The league itself or sportswriters need to establish a concrete definition of what the MVP should be, else the debate over MVP becomes arbitrary. This debate is not conclusive to just the NBA as every major professional sports league contains this same situation. If you look at the history of the NBA MVP award, the criteria for MVP has changed every year. Some years the MVP went to the most statistically proven player, others it went to the most valuable player to a team, and so on. Personally, I think this is the wrong way to approach the MVP award. The award itself should be the a stable measure that does not change from season to season. Until the definition of the MVP is clear, the entire debate becomes a personal opinion of what an MVP actually is.
In conclusion, the MVP should go to Yao Ming because he is the tallest player in the league. And his broken English is humorous.
posted by MillerTime @ 8:02 PM
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9 Comments:
I feel Rasheed Wallace is the MVP of the league.
My vote, for the 3rd straight year, will go to Troy Hudson. No one is more valuable (when playing) for the opposing team.
All of the other players help only one team, buy T-Hud helps every team in the league except one. Thus, he should have the MVP sewn up.
The award has never been about being a reward for the best player...whatever your definition of "best" may be. The award...and all sports awards are about giving the media something to publish in regard to that sport. Having better definition to the award would lessen the ability to have countless articles about "who's it going to be?"
Baseball will continiue utilizing this strategy until David Ortiz has 227 RBI this year and they finally give a DH the MVP. Opening the door for Rondell White.
I understand what the award is actually designed to be (a device used by the sports media to be anaylzed repeatedly. I am only saying that the coverage for the award is annoying and that there SHOULD be a concrete definition for the award. Or maybe have five different awards, whatever, just don't change the interpretation of what the award is every year.
Be careful mr. millertime, you are on a blog with plenty of liberal arts college "grads". Remember they hate concrete definitions like science, math, etc. So really the NBA MVP is like a liberal arts college...
I also go to a liberal arts college, sometallskinnykid, and I bet I am taller and skinner than you. So there.
Dozens lbs of fury,
Taller, yes. Skinnier, the only real competition is found here,
And the MVP is clearly Darko - look at the combined record of teams with him on the roster...
As Pooh points out, I will take that taller and skinnier bet. I very confident in my skinniness.
Also, Pooh makes a good argument (never thought I would say that) that Darko's record is pretty impressive. So that mean Artest is 2nd right?
Dudes,
The fact that the MVP award DOESN'T have strict rules is what makes it so awesome. Than all these knuckleheads (I'm looking at you Tim Legler and S.A. Smith) "can bicker and argue about who killed who" and we in blogland can claim righteousness and criticize them with no discernable fact-checking or credibility of sources. Isn't that what sports is all about anyway? A competition between (mostly) men to see who is more "right" about somewhat useless (in the grand scheme of things) sports trivia. The word trivia itself sort of suggest it. It's the root of trivial, after all.
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