Not saying 'the box-score' and list three numbers working off basically the same components. The relevance and value of the box-score being should be justified for whatever specific thing it is being used for. (also awfully odd to me to handwave his limitations as a defender(paint-protection most prominently) as not being a 'paticularly notable weakness' but whatever) Simply introducing something like progressive carries and giving it enough weight would lower Nikola from 'best in the league?' to 'is he even as good as luka offensively' and you are welcome to check out sofascore, futmob, or whatever else if you think that can't be turned into a dozen somewhat correlative box-scores for our would-be metric-stacker. There are box-scores where Jokic would look worse and box-scores where Jokic would look better and I can create infinite variations of either type.

The point is there is no 'the box score'. I mean, it was a line in passing, but no. That the boxscore is flawed and doesn't capture all relevant actions? Yeah, I agre

So I'm not sure what purpose your digression is meant to serve. If you do a weighted average of all the stats its very unclear whether Jokic or Embiid would be ahead If anything people have been discrediting everyone not named Jokic given the recent title. I think it shows he's not playing like the clear best rs player as he did last season. It just goes to show how accustomed we have become to his greatness. It's crazy that we can look at what Jokic has been doing this year and conclude that it's not mind-blowing.

Giannis probably has the least narrative going against him so I guess him? SGA is probably too new to MVP talks to pull through and Jokic isn't really having a mindblowing season either. He won one last year he didn't deserve so he'll probably miss out on the one he does deserve (if he keeps this level up of course, season is still long). With how award voters keep taking previous years in account I actually doubt he will get it.

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