Alex Speers

And so as you go back, the calculation becomes more questionable.

But it's a quick and dirty method.

and most importantly it's very fun so i went back through every mvp season history of the league and looked at the win shares per 48 of the top four mvp vote getters i compared them to every other class and so without further ado here are the top five mvp classes in nba history according to my flawed but fun method number five 89.90

Okay, so 89-90, Magic Johnson wins the award, followed by Barkley, MJ, and Karl Malone.

The top three vote-getters each got at least 20 first-place votes.

There were only 92 first-place votes available at that time.

This was the closest MVP race in history.

Charles Barkley actually got 38 first-place votes to Magic's 27, but several voters left Barkley completely off their ballot, which allowed Magic to win by a very slim margin.

I would say great start for my method.

Number four, 15-16.

Steph Curry won as the first unanimous MVP winner.

He was leading the 73-win Warriors, but despite the unanimous win, this was still a great field overall.

You had Kawhi leading the 67-win Spurs, Braun leading the 57-win and eventual champion Cavs, and Russell Westbrook getting the nod over KD, who finished behind him.

That's one of those ones I kind of forgot.

I forgot that Russ finished ahead of KD that season.

Okay, number three, 2013.

Now, I just mentioned that Steph was the first unanimous MVP in NBA history.

It should have happened, arguably.

Actually, not arguably.

It should have happened in 2013.