Rachel Nichols

And then offensively, that's where people understandably argue SGA over Wemby.

sga it is very tangible what he does he is the thunder offense with what he does with the ball on his hands web and yama it's things that go beyond the box score a lot of the times he does average 25 points per game he is a dominant scorer when he scores off of screens and finishes at the rim and all the stuff that you see in the highlights but it's the rim runs it's drawing two defenders into the paint it's

causing the Spurs to lead the NBA in history in corner three-pointers taken with the amount of tension that he draws in the defense, opening drives for Castle and Harper and Fox to get into the paint and make the pass.

That's all due to Wemby.

So even though it might go back, he runs back on defense and he gets nothing on the stat sheet,

He's the cause for why the Spurs had a 120.5 offensive rating with him on the court this year.

Only one point behind SGA, by the way, at 121.5.

And so I lean Wemby slightly over SGA, who is amazing in his own right.

I just think with Wemby, he just shaped the court and morphed both the defensive end and the offensive end.

It's just we only ever talk about the defense, but he did it on offense as well.

The only pushback I would give, because I think that there is no wrong first-place vote here, Wemby's minutes have been managed all year.

And by design, right?

You want this 7'5 unicorn who started the year with an injury.

You want him healthy for the playoffs.

We saw now the rib thing.

We're hoping that he is going to be 100% healthy for the postseason.

When you look at the minutes, and SGA played nearly 400 minutes more than Wemby, I think it was 393 minutes.

You divide that by the 29 minutes per game that Wemby played, it's the equivalent of 13 and a half more games played for SGA than Wemby.

I have a hard time.

Everything you said is true about the defense, and I'll even concede the impact on the offensive end, even if SGA is six more points per game, three more assists per game, more easily identifiable offensive contributions.