NBA misses mark on awards timing
The NBA Finals are long over. And we still don’t know who the regular season MVP is yet. It just doesn’t make sense. On Monday, when the NBA puts on its award show, I am no longer going to care.
This is so silly for so many reasons.
• Russell Westbrook, who we haven’t watched touch a basketball since April, when the Rockets eliminated him and the Thunder in the first round, is going to win. I haven’t thought about the guy who is going to win for months. Very few have. No one cares about any of his triple-doubles anymore.
• The guy who is going to finish second, James Harden, had the worst game we’ve ever seen him have in his playoff finale. It waters down the interest and the competition.
• LeBron James and Kevin Durant were the best players in the postseason and they aren’t up for any major awards.
The NBA tried out this new awards show this year. The league needs to call it a loss and get rid of it next year. There’s no way we should know the Finals MVP (Durant) before we know the regular-season MVP. It’s plain stupid. No one is talking about the awards anymore. The time to care has passed. Making this so late is watering down every award. The only thing NBA fans are talking about now is the disparity in the league — who can beat the Warriors in the next few seasons? The MVP discussion and drama is over. The Rockets could win Coach of the Year (Mike D’Antoni) and Sixth Man of the Year (Eric Gordon) and that will be nice, but it should have happened two months ago while the team was together and could celebrate the honors. It’s fine that the NBA wanted to try something new. But it didn’t work. Let’s get the award schedule back on track next season, shall we? I’d like to know who wins MVP before I know who wins the championship.