Alex Speers

You should not be able to work.

Your assets should be repossessed.

Your name should be forgotten for all time.

But we're also seeing novel ideas in the world of propaganda.

This week, I was alerted to a widely shared post among Lakers fans with a video clip from the very good All-NBA podcast with Adam Mares and Tim Legler.

In the clip, Legs is making the case for why he has Luka at number one on his MVP board.

You click on it, and you see all the Lakers fans in the comments are saying, you know, finally, someone who knows ball.

You know, I guess some people in the media do watch the games.

Legs is the best, which he is, to be clear.

The clip was from February 2024, over two years ago.

Just an amazing innovation in MVP propaganda.

Amazing.

Now, I'm not here to tell you how to feel about MVP, but I do want to make the case that this is one of the strongest MVP fields, not just in recent memory, but in the history of the league.

The top four candidates, in my opinion, Luka Doncic, Shea Gilgis-Alexander, Nikola Jokic, Victor Weminyama, which I have listed alphabetically.

is an unassailable top four.

Now, if you want to compare MVP classes across years, admittedly, there's not a great way to do it.

I chose win shares per 48 as a metric of comparison, but it's a flawed stat.

The upside is that you can calculate win shares per 48 going all the way back to the beginning of the league.

The downside is that it's a box score stat, which has its own limitations.

But also before a certain point in the league's history, they weren't collecting all the normal box score stats that we're used to.