Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry holds the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award at a basketball news conference Monday, May 4, 2015, in Oakland, Calif.Stephen Curry, the Golden Satte Warriors’ sharpshooter is your NBA MVP. Here’s our column on the former Davidson stud-duck who proved to everyone he can play with the game’s best.
We do not think he is more valuable than LeBron, but we understand why he got the award. He was the best player on the best team, and he’s undeniably great. (Quick side note: The NBA playoffs are getting good, and we believe if the Cavs can get by the Bulls, who won Game 1 last night, they will win the whole thing. We’re not real sure they’re going to get by the Bulls, however.)
We do think that Mr. James Harden, the Houston star who finished as the runner-up, was less than thrilled with the voting. Harden finished second and said “it was nothing” and offered nothing in the form of a tip of the beard.
So it goes, and let’s throw out that we’d love to see a Golden State-Houston Western Conference Finals. Speaking of the Western Conference, three of the key figures in deciding the West winner were part of the 2009 draft.
Here’s a redraft of the top seven from the 2009 draft: