Howard Beck

But that's the group in some order.

And yeah, there are tiers here, right?

Like Shea and Jokic are kind of the go-away top tier, and then everybody else is just chasing for the lower spots on the ballot.

But I'm glad Logan mentioned Jalen Brown, and I apologize for cutting you off, my friend.

I just, you know.

That's the important thing.

No, like Jalen Brown, if like people have all these different constructs for how to, and it's fine.

I have the beholder for how you define MVP.

There are some people who define it as kind of like, well, if you took player X off of team Y or the, the guy who's like team depends on him the most,

Jalen Brown has almost the strongest case for the—if the exercise was who won with the least amount of help around them, all due respect to Derek White and Anthony Simons and everybody.

But, dude, the drop-off is steep.

Derek White and Peyton Pritchard are your returning guys from their title team.

You've got Anthony Simons imported as just kind of a cap placeholder.

And he's become really important.

Nemeus Keita, Luka Garza, they've just got random dudes.

All due respect to the random dudes, but outside of, they've got a deep guard core, but the front court is just a bunch of guys.

And they have won at the rate that they have.

Huge testament to Jalen Brown.

Also to Joe Mazzulla, who we may name check again later.

But yeah, I think Jalen Brown has a really strong case based on just how far he has taken them with his production and his leadership.