After that, I’re not going to bother thinking about anyone else. One of these three kids will win the MVP of the finals. After four games, I see the ranking collapse. Select the checkbox to confirm that you want to sign up.

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1. Steven Curry

Curry is the favorite because Golden State, at least on paper, is in a better position to win the championship as things stand at the moment, having taken back the advantage of the field in a series of three games. If the Warriors are left behind, there is a precedent for a player from the losing team to win a MVP Final. Jerry West received the award in 1969 when the Lakers lost him in seven games to the Celtics. In more recent times, if ever a player from a losing team were to win a MVP final, he would have, and probably should have, LeBron James in 2015, when he averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8 rebounds. , 8 assists in the defeat of Cleveland. at Golden State. We know who really won the MVP of the finals in that 2015 series: Andre Iguodala. There remains intense debate, with Iguodala himself saying recently that he deserved the award against Stephen Curry, who, despite having some tough games by his standards, averaged 26-6-5 and created such a large space. in which Iguodala and others prospered. . This year, Curry, whose absence MVP of the finals in an otherwise remarkable biography of Mt. Rushmore is surprised, leaves zero doubts. Again, if the Warriors win this series, it has the material in the bag. No one else has a chance. The question is: Should Curry win the award even if the Warriors lose the series? You see, there is a long way to go. If Curry lays one or two eggs in the final straight of this series, he is not going to win. He will have to continue at his current rough pace until the end. That’s how it should be. To win a player who loses an MVP, the difference must be large enough to be overwhelming. So far, so good. No one in this series was as great as Curry, who currently averages 34.3 points, 6.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists and two steals with 50 percent of shots. Dude shoots 49 percent from 3 on a tick over 12 attempts per game. If he continues, these numbers will bring him to the finest historical company. With 25 triples so far, Curry is the first player in history to make at least five 3s in four consecutive Finals. Following on his 43-point masterpiece in Game 4, he is also one of three point guards to ever score a 40-point / 10-rebound line, joining Magic Johnson and the aforementioned West. Given the all-time defense he faces and the lack of help he receives from his team, what Curry is doing right now is superhuman. The Celtics are a better team than the Warriors. They are bigger, louder, faster. They have better defense. They have two excellent scorers against Golden State. None of the eleven need to compromise with the offensive defense, or vice versa, while the Golden State, one way or another, fixes at least one glaring hole every second of this series. Draymond Green can not play at the moment. Klay Thompson shoots 35 percent. If you still see this Warriors team through the prism of what it was, check your eyes. This is not the old Warriors. It’s, however, Carrie himself, who is literally the only card Golden State has to play. And so far, he holds them almost alone in his hand. This is exactly what James did in 2015 without Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. LeBron had that Cavaliers team that started with Matthew Dellaventova, Timofey Mozgov, Iman Schubert and Tristan Thompson 2-1 in a Warriors team with 67 wins. He was not as effective as Curry this series. It is not even close. But he was the best player in that series by a mile, and did not win the award. Some people would argue if LeBron didn’t get it then, Carrie can’t get it now. I’m not sure if I’m one of those people. My instinct is that I feel a little weird when a player from the losing team wins the MVP of the finals, although I usually despise the arguments based on the old, fragmented part of the traditional character. I do not know why. It just feels weird. But if LeBron had won in 2015, I think I would have felt good about it. The West precedent was created a decade before I was born. I can not balance this discussion with any level of intelligence. For me, LeBron should be the one who set the modern precedent in 2015. But my colleague Sam Quinn challenged me in our chat room to answer a simple question: Why would someone misinform another? As Sam argued, it is similar to the argument that a baseball player could not be voted on unanimously in the Hall of Fame because Babe Ruth or Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle were not. So they got it wrong. Obviously. Why do we have to keep getting these things wrong? Baseball voters finally broke their silly code when Mariano Rivera got 100% of the votes in 2019. People said the same thing about Carrie who won the MVP of the regular season 2015-16 by unanimous vote. How can this be when Michael Freaking Jordan never won unanimously? Again, two mistakes do not do the right thing. There was no viable option to win the 2015-16 MVP other than Curry. They understood it correctly. So again, if he continues at this current pace and the Warriors lose the series, Curry will definitely have a chance to win his first MVP Final. He will? I do not know. Tradition is hard to break. Again, for me personally, I do not know exactly how I would feel about this. It does not matter how I feel, of course. It only matters how the voters feel. I know this: If all the Boston players stand there with their hats and jerseys in the league and announce Carrie as MVP, it will cause a damn storm on Twitter.

2. Jason Tatum

Again, if Boston wins the series and Carrie does not break the modern precedent, it is a small difference between Tatum and Brown right now. Almost unlikely, both have averaged exactly 22.3 points and 7.0 assists so far in the series. Brown scoring was much more effective than Tatum, but I still rely on Tatum because of the playmaking. His 7.8 assists per game is double Brown’s performance. Overall, entry into Game 4 Tatum was responsible for 45 percent of Boston’s attack either through scores or assists. Tatum is the one who defends like the superstar, and Brown, if we split hairs, takes advantage of the secondary creation opportunities provided by Tatum’s gravity. Tatum near-edge finishing problems reappear, but it hits 45% of its 3 in this range.

3. Jalen Brown

To me, Brown felt like the best player for Boston so far, in a way that Iguodala felt like the best player for Golden State in 2015. You have to consider the weight of the superstar – with Tatum being Curry of 2015 – to let inefficiency slip and really appreciate the overall impact of the guy driving the bus, as Charles Barkley wants to say. But Brown was great. No question. His playmaking, though not the level of Tatum, was important, and it’s not that he does not create much of his own attack. Beat Draymond Green on many occasions for one-on-one buckets in Game 4. Both Brown and Tatum play their typically formidable defense. …