Dan Le Batard
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He is over 25 points per game.
He is over 50% from the field.
He's over 90% from the free throw line.
And he's got more than two steals a game.
And only Steph Curry in NBA history has done that.
And it was when he was unanimously the MVP of the league.
And I will say it again, I don't think it's happened before in the history of the sport where in a regular season an NBA team is 15 games under .500 and then it stops being under .500 and stops being under .500 after they traded his second and third best player.
Is SGA going to qualify?
Is he going to have enough games to qualify for the MVP for sure?
Also, with Jokic, he hasn't quite been the same since his knee injury.
There is some stuff happening there where his range from distance has been less good, and look,
We're grading on a curve, right?
And it's a curve that has very little precedent in the history of the league when you say Jokic is playing less well.
But he has been less efficient since the knee injury.
I wanted to circle back around on something that we were talking about and we just sort of glossed over.
And I understand why we glossed over it, but I want to bring it back up.
Kenneth Walker was the Super Bowl MVP.
And you guys are shrugging at him getting a three-year, $45 million contract that is what Bradley Chubb got.
And you're shrugging and saying, yeah, Dan, that's what's happened to the running back position.
And it has in terms of value.