{"id":4232,"date":"2017-03-30T00:55:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T05:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2017-07-08T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:37:03","slug":"mvp-russell-or-james-it-really-does-not-matter-in-the-whole-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"MVP? Russell or James? It really does not matter in the whole of it……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the long of it, looking back at the 2016-2017 NBA Season from twenty years in the future, we will only remember who won the Most Valuable Player award in context with one of the greatest seasons a hoopster has ever had.\u00a0 And that season will revolve around Russell Westbrook and his record breaking triple-double year.\u00a0 And that will not be a knock on neither Russell Westbrook or James Harden, the two most dominating players in basketball of the past forty years in the Association.\u00a0\u00a0The MVP loser will not be second in my mind.\u00a0 I really could give a care if he,\u00a0Westbrook\u00a0wins the award, or if former team-mate of number zero, James \u201cthe beard\u201d Hardin is voted the honor.\u00a0 Both players are on historic runs for their respective teams, the Thunder of Oklahoma City, and the Rockets of Houston.\u00a0 Both players are going to grace the Hall-of-Fame when their careers\u00a0are finished.\u00a0 But what\u00a0Westbrook\u00a0is\u00a0accomplishing this season might never be\u00a0witnessed again, as\u00a0his\u00a0role on\u00a0the\u00a0team\u00a0that plays on\u00a0Reno Street\u00a0 may change next year.<\/p>\n

James Harden plays with-in a system in Houston that their head coach \u00a0Mike D\u2019Antoni<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has surrounded him with tremendous scores\u00a0of the three point shot.\u00a0 Harden is given an option to drive the basket or pass off to one his gunners and that puts him in a superlative position to score and assist the ball. He has also developed his game enough to rebound the ball allowing him to chase the triple-double each and every evening. Harden has also improved his defense (it could not have been any worse) to be adequate in the league as a point guard.\u00a0 Make no mistake about it, James Harden is now a top five player in the world, something that you could not say last year.\u00a0 Give credit where credit is due.\u00a0 James has upped his game big time.\u00a0 His triple doubles are proof.<\/p>\n

As for Russell Westbrook, the chase of the Big \u201cO\u201d,\u00a0Oscar Robertson,\u00a0and his record triple-doubles is beyond anything a MVP award can bring the man.\u00a0 As with James Harden, Russell is a top five player in the world, and the most productive player in the Association in the past fifty-seven years.\u00a0 His numbers associated with scoring, assisting, and rebounding the ball are astronomical.\u00a0 Westbrook is Mr. Triple Double, that is not under consideration.<\/p>\n

Good luck to Westbrook and Harden on winning the MVP.\u00a0 But no need to fret for either that doesn\u2019t win it.\u00a0 James will have a superlative season and Russell will have one for the ages.\u00a0 And Russell Westbrook will have one on James Harden after the regular season. He will be the king of triple doubles for a season.\u00a0\u00a0It will be his season to be remembered.\u00a0 if Westbrook doesn\u2019t win the\u00a0MVP the saying will be\u00a0\u201che\u00a0accomplished something that nobody in the Association has ever done in quantity.\u00a0 And he did not win the MVP. What were they (the voters) thinking back then?\u201d\u00a0 Sports fans, that is the way I see it.<\/p>\n

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