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BBT #12 Snippet | If You Miss Half the Season, Should You Win MVP?
The NBA has a games-played problem — and nobody wants to admit that fixing it creates a different problem. Set a minimum threshold and you punish players for injuries they didn't choose. Remove the threshold entirely and you open the door to players missing 30 games and winning league MVP. Every solution creates an exception, and every exception creates an argument. The real issue is that the league never built the infrastructure to handle what player load management and modern injury patterns actually look like.
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00:00 — Minimum game thresholds for NBA awards: where the line…
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