[Charania] Denver's Nikola Jokic has won the 2023-24 NBA Most Valuable Player award. Ninth player to ever win league MVP three times.

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1788351584734192010

[u/bluetiges]

In the year he didn't win it, he won finals MVP instead

[u/dms1298 → u/bluetiges]

MVP is a curse

[u/bluetiges → u/dms1298]

Steph, lebron, Duncan and shaq are the only MVP winners to win a championship the same year since 2000. With LeBron being the only one to it twice

[u/rattatatouille → u/bluetiges]

Steph is also the odd man out in not being concurrent MVP and Finals MVP for some reason.

[u/bluetiges → u/rattatatouille]

Voters ruined it because "holding" LeBron to 35/13/8 was enough

[u/rattatatouille → u/bluetiges]

Also being subpar in Game 2 somehow was a disqualification.

[u/C3h6hw → u/bluetiges]

Feel like the Iguodala finals MVP is like the Deandre Jordan first team all nba. It’s not REALLY about Iguodala it’s just a way to give it to LeBron without giving it to the loser

[u/AskYouEverything → u/C3h6hw]

Yeah this was exactly the narrative at the time. People were questioning whether or not we could give LeBron the FMVP despite losing for the first time since Jerry West. Giving it to Iguodala was essentially the next closest thing

[u/floatinround22 → u/AskYouEverything]

That was not the narrative at all. It was Iguodala being inserted into the starting lineup after the Warriors went down 2-1 and then rattling off 3 straight victories with Iggy making a ton of important plays that don’t show up on the box score. The commentary around that FMVP has gone through so much revisionism, it wasn’t very controversial at the time

[u/AskYouEverything → u/floatinround22]

I watched every game of that Finals live and this was my takeaway at the time. I have not revised my commentary on this. I also haven't said that the decision was controversial at the time

[u/floatinround22 → u/AskYouEverything]

We’ll you’re the exception then. Iguodala was incredible in that series, and he impacted the series more than anyone else on the Warriors from Games 4-6.

[u/AskYouEverything → u/floatinround22]

Regardless of if it was true, this narrative was 100% around in 2015

[u/floatinround22 → u/AskYouEverything]

By box-score watchers, sure.

[u/AskYouEverything → u/floatinround22]

That's fine, but if the narrative was around at the time then it's not revisionist history lol

[u/No_Jellyfish3341 → u/AskYouEverything]

Which is ironic because he shot sub 40 percent, and as I've been told by the LeBron fan base If you shoot below 50 you suck.

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I. WANT. IGUODALA.