
#182: Embiid-Giannis & the MVP “conversation”
Thinking Basketball
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How Do You Identify That Last Three Percent?
Ben: We struggle so much with those last three percent that we start doing these weird mental gymnastics to try and elevate whomever it is that we're trying to put out there. I would say Cody if I had to describe from like a basketball historian perspective knowing a lot of the MVP races knowing the results and the voting patterns, he'd be Magic Johnson. Ben: This would be sort of the most atypical non-traditionalnon-traditional MVP since Magic Johnson still had magic in him. He says Bill O'Neal missed a handful of games where people were freaked out about the record but Steve Nash actually lost them all and looked terrible and some voters felt sorry for him.
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