Ranking The NBA MVPs From The 2010s (NBA 2010s)

about last week where Rondo played Mark can't be the MVP of the league or it can't be the best plan and we are champions well 2010 in VPS let's do it, let's rank them in order we have already made the champion teams we rank them in order a couple of ago weeks, you all requested that we do the MVPs below, so let's look straight at the MVP seasons, all from the

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, and rank them from worst to best single day at number 10, give me Steph Curry from 2015. and I feel like this is the perfect place to go ahead and say this, of course, these were all MVP seasons, so they were all incredible seasons, but when we really look at how to rank them, we're splitting our hair here and there trying to find Find out who did what best and that's what happens in the year 2015, which was of all the years 2010 and that might have been the loudest rumor we've ever heard that there might be another MVP about who it was actually given to, of course.

This is the year the Golden State Warriors really exploded as a team and that's what made everything so special. One year, they are the Clippers in the first round, the next year they are 67 and 15, and Curry obviously stands out because he has become the best. player on the best team now, this is what people often look back on in 2014, Steph Curry's 2014 campaign and say, damn, his numbers in 2015 that actually earned him the MVP aren't that much better, They are better, without a doubt, but there are none. There is one glaring difference, however, what they also don't know because no one cares if you don't place in the top five is that Steph Curry actually ranked sixth in the 2014 MVP voting, yes, six, that's really surprising if you think about it. he didn't have first place votes but yeah however it wasn't like 2014 just no one knows who Steph Curry is and in 2015 he does a little better and his team is winning now and now he wins and in 2014 he had a couple of averages that were actually better, their scoring was better at 24 points per game compared to twenty-three point eight.

I mean, that's not really a difference, but he actually averaged eight and a half assists compared to seven point seven in his MVP Year, but look, this is the question you go from 2014 to 2015. What's different? ? Steve Kerr is not the coach. There is a completely different system. Steph Curry is doing less. I run more screens. The ball movement is better. That's the only thing that people. I've always looked at Curie and told him that he's always a point guard, but his assist numbers are unnecessarily high and it's all in the system. He has more success in the system as he has used it to move around and even sometimes as a decoy instead of what he was running. under Mark Jackson most of the time, so the system allowed Curry and the team to be more successful and how angry people were.

James Harden specifically was angry, go back in time to the start of the 2016 season when he was asked about it and he says. was 100 percent deserving of the 2015 MVP and he felt like not just, you know, a run-of-the-mill snob, he felt comfortable because Curry won 2015 in a landslide, he got 100 of the 130 first-place votes and Harden was like expected , I let the Houston Rockets do it. By finishing second, we had a lot of injuries that year, it says they won their division in a division where every team made the playoffs they led the league in total points, minutes played in advance, in other words, Harden feels like he did more and that he was more valuable to Meanwhile, his team, Curry, was the best player on the best team and that's an argument we've seen for them in every MVP, but he was right anyway.

I guess it's just the semantic arguments between you know what you really mean by MVP. and it doesn't seem like it always applies the same way because look at 2017, that's another year. I'm sure Harden thinks he probably deserved it. A lot of people think Harden deserved it, but they gave that to Westbrook and that's who I have at the moment. Ranked number nine, so off the top of my head, I think I can say without verification that the Thunder's 47 and 35 worthy war seemed to produce an MVP this decade. I think every other team probably had at least 50 wins except the 2012 Miami Heat. but that's because it was a lockout year, so there were fewer games.

That being said, Westbrook had an incredible season and broke that stereotype of the stereotypical MVP, the best player on the best team, it seemed like in 2017 he really hit the MVP. The guy they thought was most valuable to his team, Westbrook, averaged 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, making him the only other player in history to average a triple-double during a season. Now, triple-doubles are just a thing of the past, basically not. You really care, you see on your ticker that someone had a triple-double specifically Westbrook and you're cool, but maybe you don't remember that in 2017 no one thought that record would be touched again, that triple-double record was absolutely one that would never be touched. we think.

We didn't think it could be duplicated in a league that was so competitive and so intense that it didn't seem possible and the whole thing with Westbrook in 2017 was truly storybook, the whole thing was perfect timing. Kevin Durant had just upped and gone to the Golden State Warriors, so there was a big story there and he left this, quote unquote, brother Westbrook with a very mediocre team, of course he had Oladipo, but this was before that the whole Depot really blew up and after that there was a severe shooting life on this team and that's why it was so significant what Westbrook was able to do in almost winning 50 games, sure they had a good defense, but Westbrook didn't He was a great shot and neither was anyone around him at that time. of space and pace that seemed like a death sentence even though he put up incredible numbers there was a direct correlation between the games his team won in the games he had a triple-double he played 81 of 82 games in this an era of good Load management wasn't as important back then as it is now, it's been getting progressively worse, but still rest was definitely a thing, it was a conversation and he wasn't having any of that.

He scored the most points that year. he had the second most assists that year and after watching the entire season, once he scored the winning goal against the Denver Nuggets, you knew it was over, you knew it was story time, you knew it fit too good for the MVP. To go to someone else, the problem was that James Harden was in a somewhat similar situation. I mean, he had shooters around him in 2017, but he also didn't have another store around him. He had the second most total points shot, a better percentage. He had the most assists. that year, but here's the kicker: his team won more games, a lot more games, relatively four guys in the MVP race, they had a record of 55 in 27, so this is the inconsistency because 2017 was a moment in the who clearly put emphasis on the word value. like Westbrook was playing on a team that didn't have a shot, didn't fit well, but put together enough to get them to the playoffs when a lot of people probably thought they weren't going to make it after Katie left, instead of James Harden having Eric Gordon around him Ryan Anderson Lou Williams Trevor Ariza there were pieces that fit there, so once you look at Westbrook averaging a triple-double that practically put him over the top, said again, Westbrook's percentages, as usual, They weren't very good, there was quite a bit of visual evidence of his teammates allowing him to grab rebounds and that triple-double plus the teammates he had around him really carries so much weight for him to win it that I think there are better VP seasons in the number eight we are going to be. pretty consistent here and while I love DeRose, I loved his story and will always remember his MVP campaign in 2011.

I have to put him back here with Westbrook. I think these are pretty similar situations where you can find better MVP seasons, but because of the load. that they carried the burden that they had on their shoulders, made it difficult for anyone else to win it now, don't get me wrong, he stood up 100% deserved his 2011 MVP, I wouldn't have given it to anyone else, I don't think it's like Westbrook, where you have a legitimate argument that the difficult initiative is that people have tried to argue with LeBron forever and I already made this whole video, I pretty much made all the points and he had a lot of things going for him because of the fact that he was so young, the fact that he came out of nowhere, no one came into 2011 saying that Derrick Rose was going to be this year's MVP, all the injuries that had piled up around him, so it wasn't just like Westbrook, where there was a team that didn't fit, he actually came in that year with a good team, they had Carlos Boozer, but he and a lot of other players were injured for much of that season, so imagine a guy coming into a season where he no longer There are so many expectations for him, but he breaks. through those expectations and he leads his team to first place in a conference where the big three Miami Heat were.

If we were doing MVP stories this would probably be number one, in fact he and Westbrook would be one and two MVP seasons. However, we'll find better than when a guy shoots around 44%, which is where Rose was once again the situational number one option on a losing team most of the year. You're probably going to take most of the shots and you're not really set up to be as efficient as possible, but hey, what if you're the only player that season who has over 2000 points and 600 assists? What if you have the second highest usage rate and play 81 of 82 games? because his team needs him, he deserved the MVP one thousand percent, it was a storybook.

LeBron's zone teammate that year, Chris Bosh came out and said he deserved it, in fact I think LeBron himself said he deserved it, he just got really recognized and real but direct MVP seasons, you'll find better and that's what this list is all about at number seven James Harden finally got his MVP after supposedly being snubbed at least twice, he takes it home in 2018 averaging 30 points per game nine. go to two steals and you know, this is one of those years where I don't necessarily think there's much debate about the MVP and he won the first place votes over LeBron James in a landslide.

Think back to 2018, this was a time where LeBron just wasn't going to get the MVP, the Cavaliers were in complete turmoil, it was pretty much the worst they'd been since he came back. Kyrie Irving wasn't there anymore, he wasn't a championship team and the only argument people could really make. for LeBron vs. Harden that year was that, hey, LeBron is putting up incredible numbers and he's playing with the worst team. That said, when you talk about the 2018 Cavaliers' defensive walls, everyone played a role, including LeBron. I think that was one of the most important seasons where the only way they could discuss it is to just say, okay, if we cut both players from each team, who would be better, which team would be better, and when that's the only argument for MVP in most years, the guy you're arguing with. because he's not going to win it, you also look at the fact that Harding was helping start what was the most efficient offense in history or at least one of the best offenses in history with them winning 65 games and

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first in the conference that also had Kevin Durant's warriors no one else had a chance the other guys that make this list are Anthony Davis Damian Lillard we're talking about guys that were on teams that we knew weren't good enough to win the MVP unless that they were doing something like Westbrook did and neither of them were that tough and more or less went uncontested, the only thing is that now we are getting very close to the top five and this is where you have to split hairs and his shot that year, forty-four percent. thirty-six out of three I can find you a better, tougher MVP season starting here the first MVP of this decade the first MVP of 2010 we're going to put LeBron James just outside the top five and he's very, very close, this is where I really have to split my hair how many of you remember the 2010 NBA season?

No, how many of you remember this MVP campaign? Let me refresh your memory 61 wins with the team that wasn't that good they just played great basketball. The 2010 Cavaliers were promoting what was left of Shaquille O'Neal and he only played 53 games, they got Antoine Jameson somehow, which they were supposed to really like, was supposed to push them over the top, obviously it didn't , but that was something Williams used to do. considered the second best player after LeBron for much of his dent, then you get to names like Delonte West Varejao jJ Hickson yeah look if you're just looking at names this list wasn't that good if you're looking at basketball they played.

I watched that season very carefully.and they played some great basketball together, of course, it was led by MVP LeBron. James LeBron came out that year and scored 30 points again, two steals, nine assists, seven rebounds, shooting 50% and then 33%. three, this is what happened at the end he repeated his MVP, so the year before in o9, if you look at the stats, he actually improved in a couple of categories, he improved his scoring, he improved his assists, he improved his field goal percentage and even though it wasn't by much, it was the fact that he managed to improve because online we were looking at the LeBron that we thought had ultimate athleticism.

I think you could argue that with 2013, I don't know. I think he stayed the same from oh 9 to 13 in terms of athleticism, but when you watched oh 9 and saw him come back better at 10, that's what made him special, so when you look at LeBron James in 2010 you flirt with an efficient 30 . triple-double point on a team that wasn't even that good and still managed to win 60 games, it had to be that they were in the top 5 or just outside of it and that's why I placed it because everything inside the top 5 is extremely special in number 5 give me what is already an underrated and forgotten campaign 20:19 Yanis and jana say that MVP's campaign will always be underrated for the simple fact that he really failed under the spectacle that was kauai in the playoffs, people thought that with what the Bucs had done all season that they really should have been in the NBA Finals, they got to the Raptors and didn't even have control of that series, so ultimately people are going to forget about that he's the only superstar on a 60-win team, people will forget about the historic point differential they boasted about in the Eastern Conference, they were really dusting the teams off, that's what caused them to fail in the Finals.

Conference. It is a big surprise that they forget about him leading his team in almost all categories, points, rebounds, field goal percentage and they were not just any numbers either, we are talking about 28 points, 13 rebounds, 58% field goal percentage. field, that means a guy who couldn't throw the ball, a guy whose people knew where he was going all season, couldn't stop him, of course, that's where I looked at him and said, "I think this is going to matter the more you get into the playoffs and lo and behold, Toronto built a wall and his effectiveness went down, but we're talking about the season itself.

He was named first team all-NBA and first team defenseman. The guy did pretty much everything except shoot well. . has statistical lines compared to Wilt Chamberlain and in terms of who else could have won the MVP. I thought throughout the season it was pretty clear that he was going to win. I did a video on the second channel during the season talking about how people. I was complicating it. because you saw the MVP G thing come out, it was a campaign for Paul George to win the MVP before his shoulder was heard, so every time Harden would have a high scoring night, they would go to him, but I thought if you look at the entire season and All the work for me, it was pretty clear that he was honest with everything he was doing and leading his team to wins along with the fact that we were debating whether he could be Defensive Player of the Year.

I really do not know. I understand why someone thought someone else had a realistic chance of winning it, so with everything else I've talked about along with the fact that he was clearly the MVP as anyone could have guessed, I think he's very deserving of a spot. among the top five. number four, let's go to 2012 LeBron James and although you could look at 2010 and say hey 30 points per game plus assists worse team is not that impressive and no, I'm going to say that LeBron James is a better player in 2012 and the same minuscule knocks to the numbers he takes all of our circumstantial 27 points per game eight rebounds six assists first the points and assists that come directly from him playing with another ball handler, Dwyane Wade, that being said, this is the season Wade gives LeBron . the keys to the Miami Heat says look what we tried last year didn't work you were very passive you are the best player in the NBA this was your team LeBron didn't take that and become the best version of himself we have ever seen until that While his field goal percentage has increased since 2010, of course, he's playing on a better team, so he's a little harder to defend, but he's also shooting a better percentage from three.

His 36% mark that year is actually the best of his career up to that point is second in total points that year, behind only Kevin Durant and the reason why that and the other things I've discussed are so surprising and particularly better than 2010 for me is because we have had this discussion. It's a little harder to be great on a team with other bigs when you saw Steph Curry and KD join forces. What was the first thing that happened? We were like, oh damn, we won't be seeing stuff from 2016 again for a while. He's probably really good, but when you have another great player that's going to demand attention on your team, it's going to be hard to really show the MVP's greatness all the time, so in 2010, when he's the focal point and can express his greatness to the fullest . to show every night that's incredible and it's an incredible season, but when you're on the team with Wade and Bosh and you can still become the best player in the NBA, you play at an MVP level and you handle everything that comes with that and you just Overall I'm a better player than I was in 2010, that's my reasoning for having this in the top five, while 2010 was probably a little nicer, but if you really understand what happened there, I think it makes sense to move up to number three.

Oh man, let it go. I tell you a story that I will forget about. 2014 Kevin Durant in my opinion is the sleepiest MVP of the decade. People seem to forget that Russell Westbrook comes out that year and Kevin Durant has statistically and visually one of the best seasons. Have I ever seen, I'm talking about the degree of difficulty in the shots because the guys know they can overcome it now that without Westbrook on the court, he completely broke down and was able to win the MVP at a time when Bron James was still in his prime , this is so slapped with Russell Westbrook appearing in 46 games.

Kevin Durant can still help lead the Thunder to 59 wins, almost 60 wins and he totally leaves with 32 points per game, six assists, showing that he really can. distribute the ball that is not just a scorer, a steal and seven rebounds, in addition to shooting 50% from the field and 39% from three, so we are talking about doing everything and being efficient while we are forced to do some of the toughest looks you'll actually see him throughout his career. Durant plays 81 games that year because his team needs him. He scores 2500 and 93 points, that is, 400 points more than Carmelo Anthony, who was in second place.

He tries to be the biggest fuel for the Bulls in the NBA that year while he coaches. to shoot 50%, look man, I have no problem admitting that as this season went on, for the first time at the beginning of that decade I asked myself if there was a better player than LeBron James. I really did it. I saw KD in 2014. I specifically remember seeing them. play when Kevin Durant actually went to Miami without Westbrook and gave the floor to LeBron. I questioned it. I did it. I thought KD could have been the best player in the NBA that year and after what LeBron James did in 2013 to really see a player. to even be able to compete to win next year that was just incredible, it's never been talked about, it fell asleep, that could only be topped by a couple of seasons of course, and number two, I'm going to the holy curry of 2016, How did I get to the point? where I put the unanimous MVP in second place, it will all make sense in a minute, but I mean number one and two on this list are more like 1 a. m., but nevertheless curry is one, look man, curry 2016 is something we have never seen before and may never see again, maybe this year with Klay Thompson out and KD without Curry will break out and come back to this , that's the hope, but actually watching and witnessing this season live there were things.

I had the question about basketball. I had the question about basketball. I had the question. Things I saw from Kobe and LeBron, like specifically that night in OKC, the ankle game, that nickname never caught on, but the guy stopped at half court like he knew it. he was able to do it and then he did it, that was just one of the many instances that season where he came out from half court like he knew he could do it and then he did it, he took some of the craziest shots in basketball shots, what a pair!

Many years ago he would have been benched, shots that when you used to take them at the old two K's in the old NBA life, the commentators would say, oh, what is he doing, he's going to the bench, he's trying to throw away the game. those were the shots he made a living off of in 2016, he averaged 30 points a game, seven assists, two steals, so where people say he wasn't a great defender, he was definitely a great decision maker in that end of the court and knew how to play in the passing lanes, that's a skill five rebounds and then this is the crazy part 50-40-90 50% on field goals 45% on three-point shots 90% on free throws how it's not just the numbers but how he was catching them the man was turning around before taking his shots turning around and looking at people's benches before the shot went in he made 400 triples that year definitely a record it became the first player since Michael Jordan in 1992 to average at least 30 points while shooting 50% on steals.

Sorry, I left it out. He led the league in steals that year. He became the first player since Allen Iverson in 2002 to lead the league in both scoring and steals. He increased his scoring average by 6 points. Know? that in 2016 we were talking about Curry possibly winning the most improved player, that you're talking about a guy who just won a VP and he would win the most improved player, yes, this was at the end of the back-to-back MVPs we talked about earlier , how difficult it is to improve with an MVP. Curry's season got a lot better. The 2016 Curry is superior to the 2015 Curry, which was the biggest point increase for an MVP in history, so you get the point.

Curry's 2016 campaign not only looked incredible, but I doubt it from both a visual and statistical standpoint. anyone else has the ability to replicate a season like that, so let's keep our fingers crossed for 2020, so what could be better than that? What could be better than Curry's 2016 campaign? A unanimous campaign, well obviously it would have to be another campaign that should have been unanimous, let's stop talking nonsense, we know what LeBron James 2013 is, this is the only conceivable MVP campaign that could be put over the messengers and the fact that anyone thinking anyone deserved the MVP except Curry in 2016 is absolutely absurd, it's like people were just talking to hear themselves talk that year, but yeah, LeBron James 2013, in my opinion, is probably the best LeBron we've ever seen 27 points per game 7 assists 8 rebounds 57% from the field 57 I'm talking about a small Ford, not a sinner. which is right under the goal dunking a guy who was handling the ball and shooting threes by the way this was LeBron's best three point shooting season at 40% coincidentally with the year he played with Ray Allen so while he does all these other things, he's playing elite defense, he could have easily been the Defensive Player of the Year.

He was runner-up in 2013. His player efficiency rating that year is 32, which is one of the highest true shooting percentages in history, 64%, as I said before. At his peak athleticism, I think it was this season that he jumped over John Lucas and he really hadn't lost much since 2013. I don't think he's lost anything. Yeah, it's hard to argue that there was a better version of LeBron James than the one that helped them in 2013. He led them to that 27-game winning streak, 66 wins and the only reason it's not unanimous, the only reason is because someone thought that Carmelo Anthony was more valuable to his team because if you take Carmelo away from the Knicks, they won't make the playoffs if you take away the support of the 2013 playoffs, the win, Wade and Chris Bosh can probably still get them there and probably get there pretty far, that was the logic, so think about that every time you use that argument, they drive players away from teams. was an argument stupid enough to cost LeBron James the unanimous MVP because one voter actually used it he was right they probably didn't make any sense at all it's not a joke it's a complete joke I think if you were in a debate about why Curry's 2016 is not one instead of LeBron James 2013 I would say defense is the big divider there LeBron could guard basically any player that year, very versatile, scoring in multiple positions while playing in the passing lane like Curry did, very vocal, could do great rotations, yeah, when you talk about everything he did on the offensive end plus his elite defense that really maybe should have won Defensive Player of the Year.

I think that's probably where I put him in 2016, but hey, if you argue that Curry was better and thatShould be. 1a You know, I'm not mad at you because I watched 2016 and again couldn't believe my eyes anyway. If there's anything on this list that makes you can't believe your eyes, be sure to talk about it in the comments section, hit the like button, comment and sub, be sure to hit me up on Twitter, Instagram, wherever, let me know. Know what the top 10 lists you'd like to see from the

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are. The MVPs were highly sought after, so there you have it. my list make sure to leave yours in the comments section thanks for watching and I'll see you all next time