Why Are We Obsessed With the MVP Award? | The Answer

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Chris is joined by 'Ringer NBA University' cohost J. Kyle Mann to discuss the current obsession with the early MVP race and what factors go into who wins the award (03:00). Later, Chris is joined by 'Group Chat’ cohost Justin Verrier to spotlight “the real MVPs,” or important players to their teams who likely won’t get MVP recognition (25:30). Host: Chris Ryan Guest: J. Kyle Mann and Justin Verrier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show, it's the answer I am Chris Ryan and on this week's show
0:06.0	MVP MVP
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1:17.2	Oh, what's up everybody. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of the answer
1:20.7	I'm Chris Ryan. I'm your host as you can tell by my second consecutive week starting the show with a chance
1:26.0	We were talking about the MVP award
1:28.3	And I wanted to talk about it because everybody else is talking about it
1:30.8	Some reason this early in the season we haven't even gotten to the all-star break and I feel like MVP talk
1:36.8	Is all the rage more so than all-star game selection all-star team selection
1:40.5	I just feel like every night when I'm watching basketball. I'll look at Twitter
1:44.7	Look at my group chat and it's just like oh MVP
1:47.2	This guy should be caught in the MVP conversation. I can't believe this guy's in the MVP conversation. That's ridiculous
1:52.6	I feel like it really started this season with the Luca stuff like with Luca getting crowned kind of going into the season as a
1:58.2	MVP to be and that really put the MVP conversation on front street to start with but I was watching
2:05.0	I was watching the Lakers a bunch this week. I was watching them play the thunder. I was watching LeBron put in 40-minute nights
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