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Davidson Wildcats: Curry takes MVP again

By John Woodcock

May 10, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; NBA former player Steve Nash (left) and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (right) pose with the NBA Most Valuable Player trophies at Oracle Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
May 10, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; NBA former player Steve Nash (left) and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (right) pose with the NBA Most Valuable Player trophies at Oracle Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Davidson Wildcats former guard Stephen Curry continues to light up the NBA, winning another MVP award.

The Davidson Wildcats may continue to get free press for life. The Stephen Curry bandwagon is full to bursting and it will only get bigger now that he is a two-time MVP. During last season, tracing Curry’s stats with something akin to the efficiency rating that ESPN uses suggested Curry was the MVP last year all along. All he did this year was have an even better season.

So Curry not only defended his NBA MVP status, he became a unanimous winner of the award this year. That has never happened before. Michael Jordan never did that and neither did Kareem or Magic. Heck, George Mikan didn’t do it. There was always some difference of opinion, or in the case of Jordan – some voter who picked Karl Malone.

The question has arisen, did he deserve it? This is rarefied air for any NBA player. Was there no one else deserving of a single vote? What about the LeBron Show in Cleveland? What about the complete game that Russell Westbrook is building in Oklahoma City? What of the role that Kawhi Leonard plays in San Antonio?

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    • This is not a commentary on whether James, Westbrook, or Leonard should have beat Curry. This is a question of whether they could get a solitary vote at all.

    Ordinarily I would say that is crazy. There are two facts in Curry’s favor that make it different. One is that he won the MVP last year and improved this year. The other one is that the Golden State Warriors won an NBA record of games for a single season this year. Curry was the engine for much of that winning.

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    Curry averaged thirty points a game for the season. He supported that with five rebounds and about seven assists a game. He hit the magical 50-40-90 percentages for shooting and he did it in the same year. Only six other players have ever done that: Coach Mark Price of the Charlotte 49ers, Larry Bird, Kevin Durant, Steve Nash, Reggie Miller, and Dirk Nowitzki.

    If Curry wants to challenge himself for next season, only Bird and Nash have done it more than once. Meanwhile he can keep giving Davidson basketball free press every time he takes the court. The Warriors are currently in a series with the Portland Trailblazers.

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