It's like the two dudes that left are the ones you wanted to stay. And the star that is there you kinda wish was gone.
It's like the two dudes that left are the ones you wanted to stay. And the star that is there you kinda wish was gone.
Having the awards after the draft was dumb. Also the three MVP candidates didn't feel like the right three after the playoffs, even if it is a regular season award.
I feel like with players like LeBron trying less and less in the regular season and just saving everything up for the playoffs, the MVP award is becoming less and less a reflection of reality. In all honesty, LeBron was not the most valuable regular season player this year. But in the postseason, he's the MVP pretty much every year. The more this trend continues in the NBA, the bigger that disconnect will get I think.
I'll always make the argument that MVP is not best player, but player who performed the best during the designated time frame your discussing. I have no argument against Russell Westbrook being the regular season MVP, but more on the timing of the announcement. If you had said on April 20 that Russell Westbrook was MVP, then it makes complete sense.
Now, after watching the playoffs though it's clear that Kevin Durant and LeBron James are the best players on the planet and having an MVP ceremony without them two weeks after the finals just felt silly.
This is fair. It does feel odd that they have regular season awards this far after the postseason.
I do kinda get it though. This was the first year of their "NBA Awards Show" and you probably aren't get all of the players together in one place to have this show when they are getting ready for the playoffs.
I guess the thought is that if you have it between the reg season and playoffs, no one would show up, then you wouldn't have a show, so at least having it at this point makes it where some guys will make an appearance. Players probably don't want to go to this kind of event and ham it up with other players right before they are getting ready to try to beat them in the playoffs.
So announce it with the player in front of their fans like they have in the past. Durant's MVP speech was great, I'm not going to remember or even watch an awards show in June after I've already checked out of the NBA for a few months, but I will watch his speech as we're gearing up for the playoffs.
Ultimately they are trying to extend their season like the NFL, so there's constant news for at least 10 months a year. I just think they should do regular season awards earlier. How about the six days between the conference finals and finals. That would have made sense, just like the NFL does it right before the Super Bowl.
Also, I don't think I've ever met a single person who watches those NFL Honors or NBA award shows. What is their market for those? I mean I guess people watch the ESPYs, but I wouldn't think their would be a market for more of that kind of show to pop up.
What hurts/sucks the most is feeling like the homely girl who got invited to the prom by the stud athlete.
He whispered how special we are. Told us how he'd never leave us. Told us how he's a "one-girl" guy, and wanted to spend his life with one special girl.
We bought all that hook, line and sinker.
Folks said, "he'll dump you the first chance he gets", and we argued with them! No he won't dump us, he loves us! As the prom date neared he kept up the charade. Even doubled-down with fancy dinner reservations (1st contract extension).
We were all like, "is it so hard to believe that he really cares about us?"
Then. . . literally at the prom, we find out he's been sexting with new young hottie for some time behind our back, and leaves us standing there on the dance floor with no time to find another date.
So, quite naturally we're angry at him. Not so much for dumping us, but for telling us what we wanted to hear all these years instead of what he truly felt.
But mainly, we're angry at ourselves, for believing him when he told us what we wanted to hear, but it's easier to project that anger onto him.
At least you got laid a couple times.
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