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All right, welcome to a Tuesday edition of

Walked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.

I'm West Goldberg.

David Ramele will be joining me in a little bit

to talk about where Kauai might play next

in the backup plan for the Knicks this summer if they don't land Kevin Durant.

But let's start with the MVP Award, because the NBA Awards were Monday night and I honest and Tin and Kumpo won MVP over James Harden,

which probably shouldn't surprise a lot of people,

but it was the disparity in the votes that seemed to have people ticked off.

Yannas got 78 first place votes.

Hardin got 23.

And a lot of people are upset with that difference.

Rockets fans and even their Rockets own Twitter account

is citing this stat. That Harden is finished in the top two in four of the

last five years in MVP voting and they're positioning that stat as a slight

against Harden where I think it's a credit to just how good Harden has been.

I don't think anyone who has really paid attention to the NBA in the last five years

would say that Harden was one of the two best players in the league in those

last five years that would be LeBron it would be Durant those are your top two guys

for most of the last five years if anything if, that stat is a credit to just how good he's been in the last

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