NBA MVP
Russell Westbrook was named the NBA MVP last night in a ceremony that was upstaged by a rookie’s dad in the WWE ring and Draymond going Donald Duck with a tuxedo top and shorts.
We have no problem with Westbrook getting the top honor. Dude messed around and averaged a triple-double. (Props to Cube.) We believe Westbrook deserved it over James Harden, even though the Rockets were the better team and Harden was more efficient. (And yes, we still believe – as we predicted here before the season – that while Westbrook would be the MVP, LeBron is the real MVP.)
Side notes: Looking back on those predictions are pretty scary. We got Westbrook. We had Embiid as the rookie of the year, a title he would have easily claimed if he had not gotten injured. Again.
We had DeMarcus Cousins getting traded, which happened, and the Knicks making the playoffs, which was not even close. We had Cavs over Warriors, which did not happen, and the folks at fivethirtyeight.com‘s preseason simulations had the Warriors going 68-14, a record that was off by one.