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The NBA s Most Valuable Player award tends to go to the best player on the best regular-season team. At times, it s more of a popularity contest mixed with a beauty contest than it is about who is truly the most valuable player to his team. It s just easier to gauge, through wins and losses, that LeBron James or Giannis Antetokounmpo is valuable to a team that wins a lot. It s much harder to deem a player extremely valuable when his play is the reason for a team winning 20 of 45 games.
If there was a true Most Valuable Player award, it might be better labeled the Most Important Player award. If that award existed, Jimmy Butler would be the odds-on favorite to repeat as the recipient. There s currently no player in the NBA who means more to his team than Jimmy Butler does to the Miami Heat.