Howard Beck

The stats are legitimately great.

He's been legitimately great, and the Celtics are great.

And again, to me, the outline of MVP is a great player on a great team.

Not a great player on a meddling team, not a great player on a fringe contender, but seriously in the mix.

And if Wemby had played more games, he's way higher.

He's no worse than third, probably.

Yeah, you're right.

We should not fixate too much on the three, four or five.

It's the first two spots that matter most, and especially in a year like or the last several years where it's been really close races between two guys.

And that's what we'll keep the most attention on.

The guys who I felt bad about not get like apologies to Anthony Edwards, who, yes, was, you know, one of the toughest cuts on this exercise.

Luca deserves some part of this conversation.

Jalen Brunson, who has been in this conversation the last couple of years, probably deserves at least some consideration.

I will ask once again, plea once again for a seven man ballot.

Baseball has, I believe, a seven or nine man ballot, something like that.

It gives you a chance to acknowledge more guys.

And what we'll have, of course, across the spread of 100 voters is.

people will pick different combinations of that three, four, five, right?

Almost everyone will have Jokic and Shea.

And then the three, four, five will give us that spread of like eight, nine different guys who get votes.