DO YOU LeGTB nikkaS
EVER TAKE BREAKS?
NBA: Most Top 5 MVP finishes...
- Thread starter murksiderock
- Start date
stepbackj34spud
Top 75 All-Time
fukk Fact- @murksiderock hasnt seen half this list play in real time yet he will make posts like he has. 
You know what the problem is lol
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
He finished 2nd to AI in 2001 and KG in 2004
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Timmy was top 5 in MVP voting his rookie year. His first 8 seasons he finished top 5 in MVP voting that's crazy
People really take his greatness for granted and sleep on it
People really take his greatness for granted and sleep on it
GreatestLaker
#FirePelinka
MVP is one award I don't care for. It's narrative driven. If it were the coaches, gms etc voting. I would have had a little more respect for it.
Because lebron name is on the list duh
Depreciating Asset
Please pawg responsibly
I really like this metric 
murksiderock
Superstar
Yeah all the OGs of basically the first 30 years of NBA history were voted by their peers. It's impressive!
His 11 Top 5 finishes in 13 years (84.6%) is incredible and a testament of how he was viewed in his time. Other guys who spent at least half of their careers as legitimate MVP candidates:
Russell 11/13 (84.6%)
Kareem 15/20 (75%)
LeBron 14/19 (73.7%)*still active*
Pettit 8/11 (72.7%)
Wilt 10/14 (71.4%)
Bird 9/13 (69.2%)
Magic 9/13 (69.2%)
Mike 10/15 (66.7%)
O 9/14 (64.3%)
West 8/14 (57.1%)
Elgin 8/14 (57.1%)
Kobe 11/20 (55%)
Certainly isn't a perfect metric but it's at least an objective standard that no one can fudge. The guys who don't like it, don't like it because it doesn't benefit the guys they want it to, but I ain't about to pretend that MVPs and MVP contention isn't something that's been important in the NBA since forever. I ain't finna let nikkas get away with that...
At the very least it's an objective bar that hints at how dominant a player was and for how long. And that certainly matters when we are comparing All-Timers to each other...
Kawhi has three Top 5 finishes with a runner-up in 2016. The argument could be made that every year he's played since then he's been a legit Top 5 guy, the problem is he has two full years missing in only 7 years so that rightfully hurts him when we're comparing his legacy to other guys. For the record, despite missing so much injury time in his prime and being a late bloomer to boot, he's still presently held as a Top 40 guy. That's impressive;
He's 11 years in now, which is the entirety of Pettit's career, so we can have real legacy discussions and its fair game. It is getting late for him, because when he starts Y12 this autumn he'll be 31, already with a significant injury history, in the typical window (Y9 to Y12/ages 29 to 32) that even great players begin showing clear signs of decline...so it's getting late for him, and I definitely don't see him playing more than 5 more years period (2027), but if he has one more 2-3 year run left in him like 2015-17, or 2018-21, he's going to continue to rise up All-Time boards. He's had a really unique career, I've never seen any superstar player's career take quite the trajectory his has...
fukk Fact- @murksiderock hasnt seen half this list play in real time yet he will make posts like he has.
How many of these guys did you watch at least 50% of their career?
You're absolutely right bruh, I do lol...
murksiderock
Superstar
I really like this metric
At the bare minimum it's an objective one. Not bulletproof but there's very few holes one could poke at it...
nikkas say MVP is "narrative driven" lmao. All that means is everyone of these guys benefitted from narrative at some point. Every one of em...
MVP not supposed to matter because nikkas favorite players not high on it but being Top 5 for at least a half-decade or longer is a strong indicator of a guy's degree of dominance of his era(s). But MVP is a bullshyt award lmao...
murksiderock
Superstar
Absolutely, give me a few minutes!