I can’t stress enough how much I love Jaime Jaquez Jr. Steal of the draft for sure. Efficient scorer, uses his strength to post up and get easy looks. Also a great catch-and-shoot target. Hustles on defense, averages over a steal per game. Put him on a struggling team and I think he’d be a dark horse for ROY.

Can someone tell me how Cedric Maxwell won the FMVP over Bird that series? Maxwell just barely edges Bird in PPG (17.7 vs 15.3) but Bird’s rebounding was insane. He nearly matched Moses Malone of all people (15.3 to 15.7), not to mention leading both teams with 7 assists and 2.3 steals per game. Bird had a team-high 27 points in the clinching game 6.

All I have to go off of are box scores, so was there an eye test thing I’m missing? Was this, in any way, comparable to Iggy’s FMVP in 2015?