I think his season will pop out more if he does get MVP, and in a bad way. There’s no telling what stats will be invented in the future, but as of right now he doesn’t have the best stats: he trails Kawhi and Harden in Win Shares, Harden and LeBron in Wins Produced, and LeBron in RPM Wins. Put all three together and he’s behind LeBron and well behind Harden. Heck, he’s behind his own 2016 season. It’s fair to ask why we should use these three, and the answer is because they correlate best with actual wins.

He’ll be the only press voted MVP besides Moses whose team didn’t get to 50 wins, and they at least had the excuse that the Rockets were coming off a Finals appearance.

A season triple double is an amazing accomplishment. Not every amazing accomplishment deserves winning the MVP, and not having the best stats and being on a historically bad team for an MVP winner should be reason enough not to win it.