#136: Western Conference Finals MVPs since 2000, Part 1
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In Part 1 of a mega podcast, we go back and select Conference Finals MVPs (Magic Johnson and Larry Bird trophy) before the award was officially handed out in 2022. We asked the Thinking Basketball community to vote as well for a broader perspective. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back recently I have mentioned how I like the off season because |
| 0:15.2 | we can talk about anything but today this is probably the most important topic |
| 0:20.0 | we could think to come up with it's extremely official and extremely critical |
| 0:25.2 | that this is done. Cody we realize that the NBA debuted the Western |
| 0:31.7 | conference and Eastern Conference MVPs in the 2022 playoffs, a long overdue |
| 0:37.6 | addition to just the lonely silliness of the finals MVP. |
| 0:41.7 | We have the Larry Bird Trophy in the Eastern Conference |
| 0:44.6 | and the Magic Johnson Trophy in the Western Conference and as someone who has |
| 0:48.0 | wanted a playoff MVP for a long time I was very happy to have another sort of point of acknowledgement in a critical |
| 0:56.4 | part of the NBA playoffs, you know, those final four teams that meet. Those are usually |
| 1:00.8 | championship level teams. So I was very excited about this but the |
| 1:03.7 | problem is Cody there's only there's only been two that have ever been handed out. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah that sounds like a huge gap a place where two people that might be interested in |
| 1:11.6 | this question could try and fill in those gaps, Ben. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, like the gap is that we've got a lot of NBA history, but only two conference finals winners. |
| 1:21.6 | So today, unfortunately, if you're listening, the suspense is worth nothing because you probably read the title of this silly podcast. But yeah, Cody and I are going to go back and we are going to try to fill in and vote. I mean we could call it the official, but maybe it's not technically |
| 1:40.4 | the official winners of the... It's the official thinking basketball winners. |
| 1:44.4 | It's the official thinking basketball winners of the conference finals MVP. |
| 1:49.6 | And of course when we first came up with this idea I wanted to do all 136 conference finals that have ever been played. |
| 1:55.5 | That's a that's a wee bit too much. So today on our project journey, who knows how long we'll go for, |
| 2:02.3 | we said we're going to do the 21st century. I guess technically |
| 2:05.8 | 2000 is in the last century but who needs to get into that numerology. So we're going to go |
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