#110: The one true MVP! (Awards fallacies & existentialism)
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Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Who is the MVP in 2022? Are we prioritizing the right players? Can we even answer this question without defining it clearly? We discuss the concept of awards ballots, the idea of ambiguous definitions, the purpose of awards and the difference between philosophical variety, fallacious arguments and non-contextual data points (Stats Police!) With Cody Houdek @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:07.0 | Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, Cody, people have been asking me for years. They say, Ben, what are your all |
| 0:18.8 | NBA teams? They say, who is your MVP? What does your ballot look like? |
| 0:24.0 | And today, we will answer those questions |
| 0:27.0 | in the best possible way |
| 0:29.0 | without probably actually answering them |
| 0:32.0 | because the goal of today's show is to discuss the one true MVP in the NBA because you know that Cody right there's a one true MVP and everyone else is |
| 0:44.9 | Kind of |
| 0:46.4 | Fraudulent that's exactly it. There's the platonic ideal of me and if the one player doesn't match it |
| 0:51.6 | Everyone else is just irrelevant. |
| 0:53.4 | And I know this because of some comments I read this week. |
| 0:57.8 | They were spoken by a philosopher of Philadelphia. |
| 0:59.9 | I mean he's traveled a long way to get to Philadelphia and had a detour in Kansas but |
| 1:05.0 | Joil and Bede, the wonderful giant center for the Philadelphia 70s. So you heard |
| 1:12.0 | this right you heard the comments. I heard yeah okay so here's what he said he said |
| 1:17.2 | When asked about winning MVP he said if it happens great |
| 1:20.9 | If it doesn't I don't know what I have to do. I'll feel like they hate me. I feel like the |
| 1:29.1 | standard for guys in Philly or for me is different than everyone else. |
| 1:34.0 | I don't know what I have to do. |
| 1:36.0 | Cody, before I spontaneously combust. |
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