Sunday night edition of the pod we are overdue for our awards. These are awards through the end of January

But we do this to take stock of where everything is in the league once a month or so

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So Danny why don't we get started here with the old MVP MVP is

Often to me, but it can sometimes be harder this time of year just because we don't have the total information and for me

The the challenge for this time was the idea of

Per-minute contribution versus total contribution so for me the guys that are having as at the end of January of course

We're having the two best seasons kind of more on a per-minute basis. We're hard and in curry

But the problem is those guys have played significantly fewer minutes than

Yannis and LeBron and so I was just kind of sitting there with how to reconcile it and so I ended up and I think this will surprise a lot of people

I ended up going with Yannis number one and

The biggest part of it was that I think he a he's played a lot more so that he's played more than at that time

It was more than 150 more minutes than harden which is which is a lot when you think about the course of the season

But also because he is very important to his team success on both ends before so it isn't like you're making

This case of like oh one guy's way better than the other guy for the course of the season

It's just the margin is that he's played more so if it was most outstanding player or if it was most valuable on a per-minute basis

Harden would be my number one, but because Yannis has provided more value to me. He is my most valuable player

Yeah, I don't know that the more minutes would resonate with me that much

I think a lot of that is just because Harden's team has been in some flaws

So in terms of games Harden's played 44 games in Yannis has played 47

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