Partnow: Are we valuing contributions to wins correctly for awards like NBA MVP?

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It’s just around the time the annual NBA awards talk starts in earnest. SethPartnow weighs in on exactly how much team success should matter when discussing the league MVP. Read:

as the replacement. While this largely aligned with the overall results, there is a vociferous minority wondering how one could not have either Curry or Dončić at the top, given how absolutely essential each is to their teams.’s play lends some credence to that argument. A 1-3 record and a league-worstover that span are certainly illustrative of the troubles the non-Curry Warriors face. But the 1-6 record with Curry not in the lineup only proves so much.

I bring those numbers up in the context of one of the great schisms in these award contests. How much On one hand, some argue that for an individual award, we shouldn’t blame a player for having worse team members than another candidate. On the other side, in basketball, a singularly talented individual can exert perhaps the highest degree of influence on wins and losses of any major team sport.

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