Pardon The Interruption’s Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discuss when Nikola as he’s favored to win his third straight NBA MVP award. Then, Brian Windhorst joins for 5 Good Minutes to react to Kevin Durant’s Phoenix Suns introductory press conference, the new-look Los Angeles Lakers and Kevin Love’s potential buyout with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
0:00 Nikola Jocic
3:15 Kevin Durant
5:07 Los Angeles Lakers
6:49 Kevin Love in Cleveland?
9:12 Russell Westbrook +Big finish!
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Jokic is playing with no other All Stars on a Nuggets roster with the best record in the West. Case closed.
Someone fix the headline. Are* Jokic’s MVPs ‘empty hardware’?
Lol see how they drag Jokic and basically say he ain't sh*t. Dude is doing his best and winning MVPs and y'all still can't celebrate him!!!!! STOP DRAGGING HIM.
Omg talk about him winning a title after he loses. NOT RIGHT NOW. This is about MVP. These clowns
Jokic don't care if he wins 8 straight regular season mvp. Embiid will be so pissed off🤣🤣🤣
Lebron barely even plays D a lot of the time, at least this year. Windhorst has to put the bellows away. He's too good of a reporter, outside of his Lakers coverage to be like this.
Tony is a casual
First of all…this is a regular season award so any comparison with Bird,Wilt and Russel is stupid. Second…they didn't win those titles by themself and Jokic has never played with an all-star player.
Third…you talk about an impact that players have…he's averaging triple double,they are first seed in West and Denver won last 25 games when Jokic had td.
Ah… Creating narratives and false dilemmas just to have something to talk about (and make few pesos).
It's not very surprising nowadays to hear idiocy like "What does MVP even mean? What is the definition?" in a country where half of population "cannot" answer the question "What is a woman?".
There's just too much lying, too much weaseling, too much angling and hustling. By ALMOST EVERYONE. It's gone too far.
MVP is a regular season award. It is not the "life time achievement" award, nor it is the "NBA champion" award.
It's simple – MVP is a regular (one) season award. End of that story.
Funny thing is – Jokic doesn't care much (almost at all) about the MVP or other individual awards or accolades… and the media low-key HATES him for it. He's not giving them anything "to sell". No scandals, no social media, no clowning, no "quotes", no extravaganza of any kind… He talks very little and only about basketball.
Just a regular kid from "someplace in Siberia", playing demi-god like basketball.
Joooooookeeeeer 🃏💪🏆
Jokic just entered his prime. He has time to win a ring. He has never had an all-star teammate unlike those other legends.
Cancel Windy
They might as well just give the mvp at the end of playoffs. Since Jokic “can’t win”. This is ridiculous Jokic was literally running into the playoffs with no help. I’m tired of him being hated on.
carry the team on your back. Multiple Previous years segments Bron needs more help but he could be an MVP. This is why the sports world will be slightly better when He retires. Not because of Bron. Its because the media is not impartial at all towards their want to see him succeed in everything over everyone else. All the energy they gave about The Lakers needing a better roster. Some worse teams with crappier rosters needed that pressure from the media
The media has an obvious bias and narrative! Giannis is the BESt player in the league and embiid is killing it as well.. jokic ain’t on Gianni’s level and him and embiid are close
Lebron is the ONLY PLAYER IN HISTORY WHERE ALL THE MEDIA YEAR AFTER YEAR CLAIM HE NEEDS MORE AND MORE AND MORE HELP …no other SUPERSTAR has ever needed as much help to win as lebron
I thought it was a regular season award 😂
Been saying this for years now. The elephant in the room is how the NBA's sports media partners have systematically devalued the regular season all in a effort to preserve Michael Jordan's legacy AND the modern sneaker industry. Most American NBA players are just chasing rings and kick it up a notch in the playoffs. That explains both things. Why jokic seems to underperform in the playoffs (that and team injuries) and still wins regular season MVPs
Jokic is the only MVP in history to not play with a All-Star Teammate. Knocking him on lack of team success when he is only 27 years old is a bit crazy
He’s mvp, he stays on same team. If he doesn’t play they lose, there’s your stats.
Send these bums to retirement.
Nonsence… Jokic is the best player in the league. By far.
They love giving it to white players
Can we stop with Russell and Wilt comparisons they played against crackheads SNF janitors…
Jordan and LeBron didn't win their 1st rings until age 27. This is Jokic's age 27 season, and he has a chance to win a ring this year, but his teammates are no where near as good as Jordan's and LeBron's teammates were. Jordan and LeBron played with multiple HoF, all-NBA, all-star, all-defense guys. Jokic hasn't played with a single one so far in his career. When LeBron joined Wade and Bosh in Miami, they didn't win it all in their 1st season together, and that is way more embarrassing than Jokic losing to the dynasty Warriors with a roster of Aaron Gordon, Jeff Green, Will Barton, Monte Morris, JaMychal Green, Austin Rivers, and Bones Hyland (those were the top-7 teammates Joker had in those playoffs).
Jokic 27 only. MJ and LeBron won their first title at 28… Enough said
Lol did dude just say impact? Jokic literally impacts his team more than any other player in the league. Casuals man….
Embid hung 45 & 20 on him and yet this is your MVP?