Shaq explains why he thinks Shai Gilgeous-Alexander deserved to win the MVP Award over Nikola Jokić, who wins it for the third time.
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Shaqs gonna be on his deathbed like "i shoulda won that mvp over nash"
And rightfully so! lol
He should have! Not even close
@@chadanding8692Facts... Bunch of stat nerds short changed dat man legacy I'd be pissed forever too 😭
He should have
He shot 46 percent form the line that year he finished 2nd to Nash.
bruh kenny said "jokic is the best center in this millennia" and shaq not knowing what a millennia even is, didn't even get mad lmao
Shaw damn well knows what that means, he’s educated…
@@LAC32Griffin bro thought the moon was closer than another city in the USA, come on now 💀
Lmao! Of course. He been hanging with the general too much.
@@infalliblekingbrooks1700 Tell It Right! There has always been 'game' in/to the Game of Pro Basketball. True That!!! Astute Fan!!!!!
@@cimi93xseriously? Lol
You can tell Ernie voted for Jokić 😂
He already said he did weeks ago
he is correct
White people in America control nba are devil Shai average 30 #1 seed gave European mvp Jokic just want give him Mvp so say he great put him up there Lebron no way he should be Mvp
If he voted for Nash, he ain't voting against Jokic or Luka.
Ernie was pissed hearing shaq
Damn Shaq got real defensive there… who he lost the MVP to?
Steve Nash... Twice
Steve nash
@@calebreign8649And he'll never catch him
3rd time MVP getting swept 😂
@@bxdon122 and he'll never catch him
HOWS KENNY BALD WITH A LINE UP
Tattoo hair
He’s bright skinned😂
Good point 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My boy got the BLACK 😭😂
Shaq was low key out of line and made himself look bad. He made it about himself and was mainly mad he only won 1 mvp.
How? His point was you can be the best player in the league, put up stats and have a great record but you still aren’t mvp. Thats his point. Shaq was best individual player and most dominant player from 1999-2004 in the nba but he only deserved one mvp. Jokic best player in the league, great season great record but shouldn’t be mvp. Sga should be. Shaq was displeased how voting went were sga, Luka, Brunson and edwards got no votes which shows the voters aren’t voting properly for who is mvp. No reason for them to not have gotten more number 1 votes, it’s a very close year. Like joker deserved it last year. This year no. Sga deserved it. His point was he had seasons like joker but wasn’t mvp. Based on that same criteria Joker should not have gotten mvp this year, that’s Shaq’s point. It’s not best player award or best record award,
@nonyobussiness3440 Why does SGA deserve it??
@@nonyobussiness3440so if that’s the case why does he think he deserved mvp over nash?
@@nonyobussiness3440also he said shai stuffed the stats better than joker which is jus not true???
Okc don’t win without sga mvp
Shaq literally the definition of hater and ruined this moment for Jokic. Unprofessional and was way too emotional.
He ain’t deserve it
I'm sure he's more concerned with Ant and Kat sweeping him tbh
Shaq ever do this to a black dude?
It’s just at this point the nba isn’t even going by most “ valuable “ . OKC climbed to the top of the west off SGA. Shaq got a good argument here and he’s right. Cause how was it a “ runaway “ for Jokic ? P.s ( I flew to Denver to watch Jokic play ) so don’t say I’m a Jokic hater. Its just now they’re not even giving other players a chance
@@jercreason840do what?
IT AIN'T ABOUT YOU, SHAQ!
Exactly, he's not voting for someone he's voting against someone. Since he only has one MVP he feels bitter.
It's crazy to think about how if embiid didn't cry to the media for the MVP last year, Joker would have just won four in a row 🤯🤯 That's a top 5 center to ever live y'all.
Stop yapping embiid trashed jokic last year in the head to head and plays just as good in the regular season
Cap... There have been more than 5 centers better than Jokic. MVP is a cherry on Top but the CHAMPIONSHIPS hold more weight.
Wilt, Shaq, Russell, Hakeem, Kareem theirs 5 centres he ain’t better than them…
Embiid ducked Jokic when it was his time to play on Denver
@@anthonylouis2573tell Embiid to come to Denver been waiting since 2019
bro could have said that any other time...
It’s apparent that Shaq is like Kendrick when it comes to MVP. Dang, and I thought Shaq wasn’t like that. 😕
@@JimmyHossa i don't think it's like that. He didn't say it, and I don't think it's right to put that on him just because he doesn't agree Jokic should be MVP.
@@JimmyHossa Shaq not racial with it like Kendrick he just hates giving other big men their flowers
@@JimmyHossaeverything racial with u
@@Danny-lr1ygnah y’all racial no matter what SGA should be mvp y’all on code
Never seen so many ppl disrespect a player like they disrespect Jokic. Give him props and throw shade another day! Let the man have his day
Yeah, this was pathetic of him.
They mad coz he sent Bron packing two years in a row 😂
I bet you weren’t saying the same about embiid
How they disrespect him they telling how the feel they untitled to that
@@mambaforever3239he going to be packing soon himself
Hold On Shaq, Joel Embiid won MVP last year his team didn’t finish 1st in the East so what criteria are you using???
Embiid is black.
76ers has better record than the nugget lol
Whatever fits his narrative
@@FlorentStuartKetchamiTchouleng Yea by 1 more win and Bucks had the best record in the league so technically Giannis should win the MVP if we going by best record.
Feelings 😂
Shaq mad Jokic is gonna pass him all time 😂
I’d say Shaq is the most dominant. Overall though Joker is better than Shaq IMO
@@davida99Shaq definitely is the most dominant center ever but Jokić has a great chance at surpassing him in a few years if he wins more titles.
Never…
@@davida99🙄
@@ConnorMiller417na Kareem could at least score outside the paint and changed the game. Shaq changed the game by introducing the hack a Shaq
EJ had enough of shaq haha
Shaq used winning record as part of his arguments when they literally had the same record
😂 yeah, he is grabbing at straws
But I mean OKC beat Denver 3-1 and won their division this year....
@@PBittz Yeah but he didn't say that, he said they had a better record
I get wat shaq was trying to say you people are blinded by the okc being so good you forgot they were SUPPOSED to be this good everyone nd their mother had Denver 1 but the young cats beat them out their spot led by the real mvp
It's a reason OKC was #1 over Denver. They won the tie breaker and so better record
Shaq getting Nash PTSD flashbacks.. man needs to stop projecting his insecurities and move on. Kenny always kisses up to Shaq for some reason lol
He's not insecure being pissed isn't insecure not everyone is insecure
Shaq did get robbed though, and he's entitled to his opinion 😂
Kenny gon get his ahh beat that’s why
He aint projecting, hes relating bruh. Thats why he was passionate about it.
Kenny called Jokic the best center of the last 25 years-- better than Shaq, in other words. So that's not kissing up
Shaq is just hating here. Identical records. Jokic just impacts more aspects of the game
He's not hating sga won the season series against jokic 50 30 point games set a franchise 30 point game in a season lead the league in steals Went from a 10th seed to the 1st on the youngest team to win 55+ games If not SGA Luka 34 9 9 both of them deserved it more
FACTSSSSSS BRO..CASUALS DONT UNDERSTAND @@calebreign8649
@@calebreign8649 They have the same records, jokic was more efficient, a better passer, a better offensive rebounder, a better defensive rebounder, higher PER, more Win Shares, more defensive Win Shares, should I keep going? The criteria for the mvp isn't who is the youngest or who's team was worse the previous season. Joker is a better player and every GM would want him on their team over SGA, period.
The difference is people were expecting Denver to be here. Nobody thought OKC would be at the top of the West.
@@queyoung6597that's what i think that sga should be the mvp his team are 21 years olds and not expect the expectation to be the 1st seed
Sga, joker or Luka all deserving. I’m not mad abt the decision.
Thats 4 MVPs in a row for Jokic in my book.
Terrible... Shaq's zero manners.
Absolutely!
The arguments Shaq brought up were more in favor of Nikola. Shows he just yappin. MV3 🃏
They need to stop calling it the Kia MVP can’t even take it serious.
Right because who in the hell is driving a Kia?
😂😂
Shai average 30 2 yrs straight racist voters this evil Jokic not Mvp Shai had thunder #1 seed average 30 an lost mvp is sick pure evil
@@breonmitchell2443typical projection. You’re the kinda guy to be in a blm riot
@@gregansbootstrap5352you’re the kind of guy who watches nick fuentes
Let's look at the stats ▪︎Total points SGA= 2nd. Jokic= 5th ▪︎ Total rebounds Sga= 62nd Jokic= 3rd ▪︎ Total assist Sga= 18th. Jokic= 2nd ▪︎ Total Steals Sga= 1st. Jokic= 8th ▪︎ Total Blocks Sga= 35th. Jokic= 33rd ▪︎Fg% Sga= 25th jokic= 10th ▪︎ win shares Sga= 2nd. Jokic= 1st ▪︎ player efficiency rating Sga= 3rd. Jokic= 1st ▪︎Box plus/ minus Sga= 4th. Jokic= 1st ▪︎ Value over replacement player Sga= 4th. Jokic= 1st What are we talking about?? Also both teams won the same amount of games. Jokic did this despite Murray missing 23 games for the nuggets who is their second best player.
I think Steve Nash just need to give Shaq the MVP trophies so he can stop crying!
trophy not trophies. Don't believe Shaq when he says he got robbed twice. Shaq wasn't even in the MVP conversation the second time in 2006.
Crying worked for Joel 🤷🏻♂️ haha
@@mekacrabit's even amazing he was considered for MVP on 05 when that was his worst season at that point in his career.
Should have been 4 straight for Jokic
Jokic winning MVP almost 4 times in a row. And three out of last 4 years . RESPECT
should have won last year as well
all stats show he should have won it over embiid too. embiid is worthless fake mvp another useless player propped up by the whistles and fts and flops
Sad to see Shaq hating like this….
Yeah, a real bummer. Oh well.😒
How
He right
Exactly he could think sga was mvp that’s fine. It’s the way he acted and made it about himself
Yes,it is and very disappointing. I had mad respect for him.
Joker the best player in the league hands down and played 79 games bbq chicken its faneto
It's not best It's most valuable. MF don't even play defense and 7 foot
@@HakeemTheDream616 ima have to disagree with the defense part. i think jokic plays alright defense at least
Shaq hates to see himself fall down spots on the all-time big men list
He also doesn't like seeing white players get recognition
@@lightbeforethetunnel this isn’t that, but cornballs like you keep spinning that narrative
@@lightbeforethetunnel y’all are so lame
@@chavo2k7 Hey it's just a fact. He's the only basketball talking head I'd say that about. He's made it very clear over the decades. He attempts to veil it slightly, but just enough so those who don't want to see it won't
@@chavo2k7 I call out racism no matter who it's from. If that bothers people then those people are the problem, just sitting back saying nothing is what allows problems like that to fester and results in real problems. People need to be called out for it, no matter who they are.
Shaq needs to quit shitting on everybody all the time
He's right
So what he can speak his mind stop being so fragile
That’s what makes these shows watchable if Shaq just came up and said Congrats Joker and ended it there this would have 10k views😂
@@Marionettetc Shaq is bitter, you don't tell someone they didn't deserve to win an award after they've just been honored with receiving the award. Imagine if Ernie told Embid that same thing last year? You'd cry for a year about it
How is it shitting on someone saying sga should have won it. He said Jokic is amazing, had a great season is an all time great and best big man in the league and puts Jokic as the same tier as himself. Like when Barkley beat mj for mvp, everyone agreed he should have even though mj was a better player clearly. Barkley had a better season, a bigger impact on his teams success. That is what Shaq is saying. Sga set records and improved his team to the number 1 seed and beat the champions 3-1. He also is the best mid range scorer in the league. Sga has the individual stats, team success, team importance, individual achievements that make him a better mvp than Jokic. Like Nash wasn’t the best player in the league, but he had the individual stats and impact on his team and team record that gave him the award. TD, Shaq, kg, Kobe, lebron, dirk, dwade, AI all have cases to mob in their career but didn’t win as many as you’d think because of the criteria of mvp. Kobe didn’t win mvp in his best season.
First, congratulations Nikola! It is well deserved... Let the haters hate, but I have to say, WOW! Talk about ruining a moment. Thanks, Shaq. You sucked the air out of that room and his interview. You couldn't have been gracious before he came on? Then, shared your opinion on another day? Not cool.🤦♀️
Yea like jeez
Finally someone actually has common sense
I agree he should’ve waited but this mvp is not well deserved. Watching the games alone is not enough to formulate an opinion on who should be the mvp, especially when you’re a fan of that team
Jokic about the get swept 😂. How you the MVP if you getting your ass beat
EJ asked for his opinion and that's his job to tell it like it is jokic is the best big in the league right now but this MVP should've been SGA or luka's
Utterly disrespectful and disgusting
Having opinion. Clown 🤡
What’s the hate? Shaq said Jokic is the best player in the league, but he thought SGA is the MVP.
do you know what MVP means?
@@richgang5140 do you know what MVP means? MVP doesn’t mean the best player/talent in the league for that defined year. If that was the case Shaq was the most dominant Big man in the league in the early 2000s, therefore, he should have won it every year during that time. But, Nash was exceptional that one year and propelled the unexpected Suns team to heights no one expected, and he won the MVP which was deserved. Same can be said for this year, SGA was the best player on the best team in the western conference, and his play propelled the youngest team in the NBA to win the Wild Wild West, and surpassed Jokic’s Denver Nuggets which was not an easy feat. Now, you have the audacity to ask me if I know what MVP means? Read the above explanation again, I just explained it for you with an example.
@@Pgprince86 I’m not reading allat but yea learn what MVP means bro
@@richgang5140 you’re not reading all that because you can’t comprehend; reading is fundamental.
Best center *
Shaq is hating because The Joker is catching up to Superman.
And because he ain’t A ric an
@@JimmyHossa What no comparison
@@mitcha4235 sure 🤡
Jokic already does just about everything better than shaq ever did lol
White people big mad lol
bro let Joker have his MVP without complaints, god dam
And how you gonna say that stats matter to your vote and ignore that Luka had way better stats than SGA on pretty mich everything? Makes no sense
I had an OKC fanboy argue with me that Luka’s extra 4 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists were offset by SGA’s 0.6 steals lead. 😂😂😂
Why they hating on jokic
hes white and not american and he doesnt care to be marketed
SGA 31 PPG..BEST 2 WAY PLAYER IN NBA..1ST SEED!!! ANDDDDDD LED IN STEALS PER GAME..EASYYYY ROBBERY..THEY MAKE MONEY IN WHITE MAN JOKIC
@@Scar.Boroughfoul merchant.
@@Scar.Borough yeah shai is better in 3 stats/facts, jokic is better in 30
because he's white dominating a predominately black sport. That's exactly why he wasn't awarded the trophy last year and EVERYONE knows this.
Shaq is just bitter that he lost twice to Stave Nash and that Jokic will soon be ranked higher than he is in all-time Centers.
No he won’t…
Never
Shaq would smack the hell out of jokic down low. No one could stop shaq.
@@LAC32Griffin whos stops Jokic?
@@Simon-nv5zjif you’re getting locked up by naz Reid in the paint ur not passing up shaq
Luka and Jokic constantly disrespected by Shaq and Chuck. They just don’t watch ball
I woulda went with Luka. The dude had 33-9-9 and dropped 70 in a game this year and Dallas is bottom 5 club in the nba without him
Luka. should have finished very close . He and Jokic are 1 and 2
@@bigdogbill119sga and edwards are right there with Brunson. It’s a close year.
Luka doesn't play Defense.
Joker is the best big in the league and has been for a few years now and the way he played this season was nothing short of greatness. Well deserved as the MVP Good luck to Shai or Luka next season or in the coming years their time will eventually come
Shaq just got passed up by Joker on the All-Time list he is pissed😂
stop it shaq... its new era your era is done your time has pass...
lmao bro what? This his job now to talk about the new era 🤣
ShaQueen still mad 20 years later
Bet you won't say it to his face
@@karletonmcbride8083 bet you got no money nor ballz to bet ?
Shaq don t know about any numbers.
Seems you dont either..SGA 31 PPG..BEST 2 WAY PLAYER IN NBA..1ST SEED!!! ANDDDDDD LED IN STEALS PER GAME..EASYYYY ROBBERY..THEY MAKE MONEY IN WHITE MAN JOKIC
@@Scar.Borough ppg is a product of more shooting. Both player were efficient but jokic was better. Sga better defender but how about other aspect such as assist or rebounding ? And what about advanced stats where jokic leading all of them by large margin. And we have a stat for value recognition, which is on and off the floor stat, that jokic has that too. Just answer my question, if sga is more valuable than jokic why denver is way worth without jokic on the floor than okc without sga. And just a tip, jamal and gordon playing all that minute with jokic on bench. And 1 seed with same record ? Really? Thats your arguement ?
i guess its not about number ..doesn't matter if u dropped 50 and still lose ...its about carrying team and creating the most impact in the team and league ..that is your most valuable player
@@user-rl4mf1xi8c true, but there is a question. How you can decide that? It s going to be different from person to person based on who their prefer if you don t use numbers for that. Because nobody watched full 82 games of all the teams to have a holistic view. So to pick the most valuable you have to take a look at terms like value added and value repacement and win shares and on and off the court and stuff like that. Which all of them, belongs to joker with pretty large margin. At the end you can choose who you want, but you have to back it up with quantify the word "value", unless you are just picking your favourite player
@@aliasadi3200 yupp agree agree
Shaq is getting a bit jealous that Jokic might surpass him in the ranking 😂
He already has in my humble opinion.
Shaq didn't really care that Shai didn't win it. He just doesn't want Joker or Luka to win it. If Brunson, Edwards won it, he would be happy.
why not the Europeans? 😭
I think SGA should have won it. If you take him off of the OKC thunder they aren’t the #1 seed.
Shaq getting fucking demolished lmao 0 arguments to be made
Nuggets and Jokic are also getting demolished 😂
Does shaq ever look at advanced analytics if he is a so called expert... Nikola has the best efficiency and plus/minus by far in the league. Luka comes in at 2nd.
Leave it to Shaq to make it about him and ruin this moment for Jokic.
Have a cold shower Shaq, that was 20 years ago this is JOKER’s world now!
Joker: *Wins 3rd MVP* Shaq: And I took that personally
The league rob jokic last year so I don't have 3 in a roll he deserve it
Bingo
Boy you can tell having to award a white guy the mvp hurts bad uh?
Shaq-big disapointment after this
Unpopular opinion, but Brunson deserved it. To take that roster to the 2 seed and likely the ECF is incredible.
Honestly this next year i have a feeling the top 3 are going to be guards, SGA, Brunson and Luka
man shut up lol. east wasn't shit. embiid missed 30 games
Ernie with the FAX on Shaq
"Most valuable player in the league, that was me"- Shaq
Jokic the best player in the league.. both teams had same record. SGAs time is coming. Shaq needs to quit hating on guys that are threatening to him.
I guarantee you, if you showed Shaq all three finalists stats without their names, he either picks Jokic or Luka as MVP 😂 Your mama gonna be disappointed in you Shaq. Im sure she didn’t raise you that way.
No doubt!
If we talking about team record, isn't denver and okc have the same result? I don't understand if jokic didn't deserved it based on team performance. At least use other stats or whatever you come up with to argue that sga deserved MVP.
But OKC has the tie breaker over Denver and their division.....so... OKC still has the better record technically
Shaq is a casual
As a Black man I cant help but notice that Shaq, Kenny Smith, Stephen A, Arenas and other black media guys just cant shake off their Black Supremacist tendencies. They are willing to throw all these fallacies just to make the MVP a black player no matter what. The only reason most of them push Jokic for MVP and constantly dismiss Luka is because they can’t stand the fact that two non black/international players are the top 2 players in the league and so they have to choose the one who won already. These people should have no platform talking ball next season. RACISM/XENOPHOBIA is a big problem in our league.
Your copy and pasting the same comment everywhere dude relax lmaooo 😂
Shaq really brought the whole mood down for no reason. Embiid getting it last year was more of a surprise than Jokic getting it this year.
Emid was playing exactly as good as jokic was tho that’s why he complained because he was playing the same level like twice
@@Ontiming2023 go away troll
Boo👎 shaq, what a let down, you can atleast give your opinion later,dont disrepect the man.
He was asked his opinion
Give Luka some respect already . . .
Pfft luka is the biggest ballhog in the league, jokic n sga were so far ahead of him its laughable.
Tell Luka to give us some defense
tell luka to stop crying maybe he’ll get somewhere
You can easily point out Luka’s flaws like the above comments unlike SGA or Joker
He's paired w a superstar, Brunson should be above him
“i don’t like to rain on peoples parades” is probably the biggest lie shaq has ever told
The narrative that Shaq is a big man defender, is way over played . He has done nothing but criticize big man . He had issues with Howard , he criticized Rudy when he was in utah . And now hes hating on the joker . Lets get it real shaq is just hating .
SGA should have won the MVP. #1 seed. Averaging 30 pts with a young team.
it's not just based on points
Jokic deserved it. His rebounds, defense, and other are a lot better than SGA's. 30 point is great, his team is good, but Jokic is just different.
Shaq is high. If anybody over Jokic this season, it’s Luka.
It ain't about you Shaq. You only got 1 so you salty.
Shaq still scared by nash 😂😂😂
Smh joker had better states the SGA other then points n was one game over the nuggets ,Shaq ur trash for trying to ruin his moment
Jokic didn't take offense and didn't look like he cared about winning it and Luka has better stats than jokic and he didn't win
Sgs leads in steals per game fool
SGA isn’t top 10 in all states like Jokic is u fool
N off course Jokic didn’t care but why shit on his moment of 3x MVP like bring his passed n stop it Luke is good but he doesn’t have better states then Jokic smh go do some studying before u talk
@@YaoDeStoner-5280 watch the games before you talk Luka was putting up 34 9 9 which is historic numbers and you can't use the seeding excuse because jokic won as a 5th seed
Shaqs right tho sga should of won number 1 seed outta no where should of won
Shaq sounds like a sore loser and he wasn't even up for the award. JOKIC IS A CHAMP.
SGA should’ve got it. His team came out of no where and he averaged 30.
The Thunder are deeper than the Nuggets tho and that matters. Even Luka should had more votes than SGA
SGA is a guard, and his passing game is weak in comparison to Joker. If we're gonna talk about scoring, Joker could be selfish and average 30+. Neither guy is a lock down defender. Their team w/l record this year: identical. Point is that whatever SGA does, Joker is capable of doing better. Most of it he already does.
@@robglobal1 SGA is about to send Luka home. 🧹
@juliuswilliams6957 oh wow they're playing 1 on 1?? That's awesome I gotta check it out!🤡
@@staceyhartfield2350 exactly SGA is a guard and he makes scoring look effortless. No one in the league can stop him. Joker has trouble with centers his size…. Rudy…. K Anthony Towns. Dwight Howard…. They give joker asthma attacks… he plays different. … Jokers great…. But he’s about to get swept by a younger more athletic team and he was favored to win a championship… SGA is giving Luka problems
Shaq is right SGA carried the youngest team in the NBA to a 1 seed averaging 30 pts a game
And Luka carried a squad of mediocre players with his best teammate missing 24 games to 50 wins while leading the league in scoring, having four rebounds a game more than SGA and three assists a game more than SGA. Why do you guys make the most ludicrous arguments?
@@SDesWriter bro to me the mvp was clearly luka averaging 33 pt with 9,8 assist and also getting 9.0 rebounds from the guard position are crazy stats
@@DD-rk6kn yeah, not to mention he carried a team whose other star player missed 24 games yet they won 50.
Carried? Lol, as a warriors fan Chet won 2 games vs them dubs with 2 clutch plays to force ot, he was the difference maker.
Youngest and absolutely stacked team.
Shaq had his Kenny West moment ... like " no disrespect i think the other Guy was better " ... I was so disappointed by Shaq Ego...instead to congratulate He just ruined Jokic 3rd MVP season award moment... it was just so unprofessional...
With jordan they got fatigue . With kobe they got fatigue. With bron they got fatigue. But with joker they dont ever get tired.
Shaq has a point. Chuck point makes no sense most valuable player means the play with the most value which contradicts his argument.
yet SGA had a higher scoring average last year and OKC wasn't a playoff team, you want to know why OKC is a top team in the west? CHET HOLMGREN and the emergence of JALEN WILLIAMS as a 20 pt scorer (from 14 pts last year). we all know the reason why Shaq and Jet want SGA to be MVP.
@@galexcabrera3449 what a dumb argument. Jockic had BETTER stats last season. There's no sense in comparing season by season, focus on this one. Stop tryna race bait (I know why you said that last part). SGA deserved it bc he was the key piece, a dominant closer (should be clutch POY), a tenacious defender (#2 in steals per), and bested the other 2 top seeded teams in the west more times than not.
@@clkk3rd1how can SGA deserve it when the player who improved the best on OKC is JALEN WILLIAMS? was OKC a playoff team last year when SGA had better stats and JALEN was only scoring 14 pts a game? OKC's success is a team success (deep bench and all) not because of SGA. oh and where was SHAQ last year when Jokic got ROBBED of an MVP huh? you have to be dumb to say that SGA or Luka or Brunson or even Tatum is MVP over Jokic this year.
@@galexcabrera3449 that's a short-sighted arguement. you don't win 17 more games bc one player is avg 5 more points, you sound crazy. every single player on OKC stepped up in one way or another this season and we added two more pieces in Chet and Wallace. SGA heightened his level of defensive play, heightened his playmaking, and closed more games, delivering in clutch time. take him off this team and they'd be lottery, that is why he deserves it. save your response, you're just gonna make the same argument to me over and over again.
@@clkk3rd1 Do you know how to read? I also said CHET right? CHET and JALEN WILLIAMS are the difference makers why OKC is a top western team. And thank you for saying its a team effort - which confirms what I'm saying that it's not SGA alone which is what Shaq and Jet are trying to do to bolster his MVP case.
This a nba problem because he has more MVPs don't means he better player. More MVPs than Shaq, Duncan, Kobe, curry and Ginnias. This is the misinformation award because most valuable means mj lebron curry russell. Not the leading scorer, rebounder, shot blocker, or stealing leader in the NBA. He is a pass first center with no real point guard on his roster. That's valuable. That's its. Shaq ain't wrong if you look deeper at the records of passed MVPs compare to defense and scoring. The era since Westbrook triple doubles has devalued scoring and pushed passing.
Shaq got 28 points and 12 rebounds (in a really good year). He didn’t get squat in assists so his team didn’t get any other benefit from him other than other than rotationally because of the double teams. Jokic gets 26+20 points for his teammates along with the 12 rebounds. So his team is getting 46 points from him instead of 28 AND they had to hide Shaq at the end of games because fouling him gives your team an automatic win. You’re saying that the MVP is devalued since Shaq ? 😂
@@SDesWriter yes this era devalues scoring jokic isn't the leader in points and defense the Jordan's stats . It's fact. In reality in the lebron and Westbrook era of MVPs is perfect time for him to win where passing is king not scoring.
@@Chrispd2005 Shaq was never the scoring leader was a terrible free-throw shooter which meant he was useless in the last five minutes of games, and had no ability to score more than 5 feet away from the basket. That was my point, that everyone says he deserves more than one MVP yet his only real skill was being bigger and quicker than other centers so he ran into an over people to dunk the ball.
@@Chrispd2005 Pretty Much!!!
You lost everybody at Lebron😂 Outside of the brainwashed delusionals everybody knows Lebron is the most overrated athlete in sports history!
Shaq being a sad baby and literally took a page out of his wife's book “Looking back at the season, I don’t know that I was ever really in love with the man as my MVP.” In my Canelo Alvarez broken English voice: Get Da Fuk Atta Huur Man!
Jokic is not a stat stuffer? Almost averaged a triple double. Shaqs argument is weak
I knew Shaq was boutta cook when there was silence after ernie asked for his thoughts
Well yeah if you read the title you would know he was gonna cry
So apparently being only the third player in NBA history to average a triple double for the season, averaging the most points per game on the season and having a top 5 seed isn’t good enough to win MVP 🤨
Can the man voice his opinion without ppl calling it hate. Sensitive folks, I tell you. Nobody even attempted to discredit Jokic. But when you peel back the layers, even with the "same record" SGA had a bigger impact on his team. If we go metric for metric, anyone of them could have won it, but i also believe SGA had a slight edge. Thy prob will never get 1st seed again.
They gotta take away the media vote and let the league handle who gets awards
He should of win it last year but this years is SGA
30/5/6 26/12/9 You can’t be that clueless.
@SDesWriter more then 30 30 pt Gamez. On a younger team who didn't even make the playoffs last year 2 no 1. Nash average 15. And 11 . You can't b that dumb
@@marlonthemightysmith7836 I think you have me mixed up with you. First of all it was 50 30 point games and he was four points behind Doncic for the scoring title. Second, he was on that team last year that finished 10th and they added some new players and suddenly went to first but you were deciding to give him all the credit. I hate to break this to you but that’s not how common sense works.
@@SDesWriter he carried that team without him they probably 8th at best. Your argument is utterly senseless. As jokuc deserves mvo year for having good numbers on a championship team
@@marlonthemightysmith7836 he “carried” them with 30/5/6? How many games did they win 30-29? Luka set an NBA record with 57ppg generated from 34ppg and 9 assists. So by your argument, Luka is a FAR better MVP candidate. Except Jokic had 26 + 9 which means he generated more points than SGA as well….on a team that won the EXACT SAME NUMBER OF GAMES. Also there’s the 12 - 5 rebounding advantage.
Jokic is overrated honestly 😂 Shaq is not wrong but Kenny definitely knows what MVP means, that impact to bring your team beyond expectations...SGA
Bad thing is Jokic don’t even care about the shit 😂😂
I def agree SGA should have won MVP..it’s not saying Joker not a great player but I think SGA took his game and team to a whole another level this year.
So obvious. Shai was the MVP and he was robbed. What does your old school SG need to win the MVP at this point? 30+, 5+, 5+, 2+, 50+ games with 30+ points, playing some 90s BB on stellar efficiency fitting even the new style of BB, taking a 10th seed team to the first, being the best closer in the game and one of the best even on defensive end. At this point you should be everytime a 30, 10, 10 player shooting 60% from the field to be an argument over Jokic who's certainly great, but we can't forget he's a 7'0" guy acting like a big gravitational anchor a whole system moves around and has unmatchable efficiency also cause he takes lot of shots from close, while Shai essentially tooks his 6'6", 190 lbs and not freak of nature body to constantly create offense as the primary ball handler, hitting lots of contested shots from mid-range. I don't wanna diminish Nikola, but there's no sense, it's just a matter of criteria becoming impossible to understand. This thing tooks the MVP-concept towards kind of an ideal player unable to exist, if you aren't named Jokic himself or you aren't in some multi-dimensional body as the 2000s point forwards schooled to be primary handlers like LBJ, Giannis, Doncic.
Idk, SGA deserved it imo. He ranked number 1 in steals too. What, 2 steals a game he averaged? Idk man. More valuable to me if someone can generate great offence and defence
joker had 1.4 steals per game, 0.6 difference isn't game changing imo
You gotta look at how’s the team without the player plus their team record. Both at the end got the exact team record but iirc the Nuggets without Jokic have like the biggest differential going from like +9 to -9 that just shows how VALUABLE Jokic is to his team, almost impossible for the Nuggets to win games if he isn’t there, same thing when the time he’s resting in-game. While SGA does indeed have a good narrative the OKC actually are solid and it showed in those last games he didn’t play that the team could handle it.
SGA is the real MVP them people voted for joker months ago , 79 votes wtf SGA 15 votes this man had over 50 30 point game, best on ball defender and leading a young team. disrespectful , But okc coach get coach of the year 😂remember this that sob had giddy over SGA last year that’s why okc sucked 💰I say what yall afraid to say he didn’t deserve coach of the year. He just simply made SGA the starter this year is that not MVP?
Easy to get 30 points when you shoot 20 free throws a game 😂
He’s not remotely close to the best on ball defender. He’s not the best on ball defender of his own team and he’s the third best point guard in the league. 30/5/6. Those aren’t MVP numbers.
@@SDesWriter SGA lead the league in steals and over all scored the most points this season, dude okc has like 6 dudes who love playing defense that’s a plus but who inspire them that mf SGA he plays both Ins now name a player better you little hater 🤣😂😂😂💰
@@dro2348 hi little hater Luka shoots just as many free throws 🤣😂😂🤝💰
@@eastmoney7401 Halliburton is a better PG, Luka is a MUCH BETTER PG. Brunson is arguably better. Steph is better. If Trae was 3” taller he’d be a better PG. Should I move onto shooting guards, small forwards, power forwards, and centers or is that enough for you?
I thought SGA deserved it this season for doing what nobody thought could be done with the Thunder. Nobody. But Jokic is one of my favorite players now so I’m okay with it. Nobody knows what the actual criteria is anyway, so what does it even matter? Until the players vote on it, does it really mean anything?
Shaq thought this shit was about him his criteria didn't even make sense either
SGA MVP💯
The third best point guard in the game?
@@SDesWriter what about 30 ppg scorer, led his team in the WEST to #1 seed, & just one of the youngest teams to do it
Facts after nit even making playoffs last year. Hope the wolves smoke their ass
@@That85Scorpio Luca was a 34 point score and lead a worst team to 50 wins despite not having Irving for 24 games while OKC was the healthiest team in the league all season. OKC also goes eight or nine deep in the playoffs effectively which is far better than Dallas or Denver. Their age is irrelevant, their skill level isn’t. Chet is just behind Wemby as the best, most skilled center and Williams is easily all star caliber. They have 6-7 guys capable of averaging double digits (Dallas has 3). Also, when you talk about their improvement don’t forget they sucked last year and SGA was basically the same. They added new players but you OKC fanatics fail to consider THEIR contribution to the improvement. When it comes to the numbers, he is a distant third
@@SDesWriter And I'm telling you that I hold in high regard a number one seed in a tough conference holds more weight than any other stuff, on top of the eye test
So has Shaq been saying this all year or people saying it should be Shai NOW since Jokic down 0-2 to the Wolves 🤔
That my friend is called recency bias
@@davida99 Lmao is called shaq being a racist
He has been saying it for a while... But you know why, it feels like he is very personally invested in Jokic not winning it
he’s literally been saying it all year asswipe, do your research before you talk
@@933Banebecause he didn't deserve it this year the others yeah not this one
Shaq motivated jokic
We “ALLLLL” know why there’s hate against Jokic. I’ll leave that right there.