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Originally Posted by Underdog

It has never been the criteria, yet nobody has ever won the award without being consistent for SEVERAL years... except Derrick Rose.

Hit me back in a few years when you turn on ESPN and hear, "Rose won MVP just a few years ago, and he's still a great player, BUT..." - nobody could say that about any of the past MVP's because it was pretty obvious based on several years of evidence that those players were, indeed, the best player in the league... A long track record provides little doubt that the season at hand isn't just a fluke.


And Chicago won plenty of games this season when Rose played like ass - their defense more than makes up for his chucking on most nights... Orlando, on the other hand, pretty much lived & died by the play of Dwight Howard - when he was good, they won, when he was bad, they lost... Same with Dirk and the Mavs - they were definitely a much worse team when he was injured. Hell, even Durant had a better individual performance as the league's top-scorer...

So, yeah, I'd say there were definitely other candidates who could have earned the award based on more than just "best player on the team with the best record," which seems to be the ONLY defense that anybody can give for Derrick Rose's MVP award... It's a damn shame.

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