In the wake of our beloved Warriors' monumental collapse in the final three games of the championship series and the agonizing ensuing days of untold personal trauma as I struggled to accept the reality of this catastrophe, let's now emerge with a degree of clarity.
In spite of a disappointing final three games, Stephan Curry is still rightfully the league's MVP. A 30 point scoring average over an 82 game season where he played only an average of approximately 3/4 of a game, led his team to the winningest record in NBA history, set an all-time record for 3 point shots by making over 400 of them (breaking his own record by well over 100), and, in the process, almost single handedly transformed how the modern game is to be played in the coming days clearly distinguishes him as the league's best player. I won't attempt to excuse his lackluster performance in the final games because I know that he would never do so himself but it is also a fact that Curry played with significant knee, ankle, and elbow injuries throughout the post season. The fact that he was selected the league's MVP by the first unanimous vote in the history of the league speaks volumes for itself.
Make no mistake...Lebron James was simply magnificent down the stretch in all facets of the game (his clutch block of Andre Igudala's will live on in NBA lore for years to come). He was clearly the MVP of the Finals. A sober evaluation of the season as a whole, however, will reveal that the Warriors' and Curry's accomplishments in the 2015-16 season were truly historic. All hail!!
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