Matt Moore

The net rating hasn't been there as much.

He had a bad February and he was gone for January.

those factors combined get me to third but it is really close and i can get like i go through three times a day of being like come on it's nicola it's got to be yokich it's got to be yokich it's it's really difficult to kind of parse right now honestly i love how you stopped after four even though i asked you for five and the reason i love it is because i don't think there's any more real candidates not since not since kate got hurt like kate would have been five pretty easily for me um i think donovan mitchell has a case

I am fine with the Jalen Brown vote.

I wouldn't make that vote, but I'm fine with it.

I think there's a couple of other guys that you can kind of slide into the conversation as far as like, hey, these guys probably need to be considered.

But ultimately, I think it's Kawhi, actually.

The last time we did the MVP straw poll, I had Cade 4th and Kawhi 5th.

Now I would have Luka 4th and Kawhi 5th.

Yeah, I've kind of wound up with this, which is just like, what's the point of professional sports?

Money.

Okay, what's the second point of professional sports?

Winning.

You're supposed to win the games.

And

If you win, I think if you have a situation where a guy's net rating is impossibly high, but his bench really is awful, even though I don't like doing the on-off splits, because I'm like, it's about what you do on the court.

But if you win your minutes by the most, I think that matters.

But the problem is just this season, Victor's number one in that category, and then it's Shea, and then Jokic is a little bit lower.

And he's still up there.

He's in the conversation.