If AD had stayed in New Orleans, he for sure would’ve won an MVP award. He was putting up big numbers during his stint there and with no other star player around him, he could have beefed up his stats. However since going to Los Angeles, he had to play along side LeBron James, and despite being well into his late 30s, he’s still that guy and AD’s chances of winning MVP diminished.

  • captain_ahabb@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think AD would ever have been a good enough passer and decision maker to win an MVP, so you take the ring.

  • HEEMZAGIN@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s not a fair question because we KNOW he won a title, the MVP is a complete crapshoot.

    If we are saying he was hypothetically guaranteed an MVP if he stayed, he still goes to LA for the ring IMO

  • runevault@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The odds he stays healthy enough to ever win MVP if he stayed in NO is incredibly low. It isn’t like the idea of AD being day-to-day was new to his time on the Lakers. It was a risk they were willing to take on because the upside if he could stay healthy for a playoff run was a title in their eyes (which was clearly correct, even if they needed specific conditions to make it easier to stay healthy, and to be clear this isn’t shitting on the Lakers every title has some favorable conditions of if nothing else health of traditionally healthy players [See: GSW’s last year with KD where they couldn’t win because of injuries]).

    • Juniper41@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      idk I think there’s a few MVPs who prefer the award over the title.

      Allen Iverson and James “I am the system” Harden both strike me as preferring their individual accolades. Just from the way they talk and regard themselves, I think they value their success more than team success. Quite literally when asked to come off the bench to help his team his response was all in regards to his prior individual accomplishments. "I don’t know any Olympian that comes off the bench. I don’t know any All-Star that comes off the bench. I don’t know any former MVP that comes off the bench. I don’t know any three-time scoring champion that comes off the bench." I also think had Carmelo won MVP he’d be in this convo.

  • jambr380@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A guaranteed MVP is better than a ring as a team’s clear 2nd best player (especially since it was in the bubble). I don’t think he would have won an MVP in NOP, but in your hypothetical, I take the MVP every day.