The MVP race isn't all of a sudden a hotly contested fight to the finish because LeBron James scored 61 points on 33 shots on Monday night against what was the sixth-stingiest defense in the NBA.
There is a reason, though, that you don't vote at All-Star Weekend. He was insane, and he was leading the charge for the best team in the NBA's (far) superior conference if the vote had taken place during All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, KD would be finding room on his mantel for his first career Podoloff. Few right-thinking individuals would've offered a sideways glare at that choice as Our Fearless Leader wrote in late January, Durant had stepped up and staked his claim to the honor with a ludicrous January that saw him average 36 points, six rebounds, six assists, and 2.5 combined blocks and steals per game while shooting a scorching 55 percent from the floor, 44 percent from 3-point range and 89 percent from the foul line - all-time-great levels of across-the-board productivity and efficiency.ĭurant led an Oklahoma City team missing injured All-NBA point guard Russell Westbrook to a 12-4 record in the first month of 2014, turning in late-game heroics and capping it all off by snapping his 12-game 30-point scoring streak because he needed only three quarters to incinerate the Brooklyn Nets. If the 2013-14 NBA season had ended at the All-Star break, the people who vote on such things probably would have picked Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant as this season's Most Valuable Player.
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