Has Russell Westbrook done enough to win the MVP?

Blocks weren't counted back in Wilt's day if they were he'd have way more triple doubles.

hes right about the point that basketball is literally a majority black game

This man has lead his team to the playoff the year that they lost KD, Ibaka and Waiters. When he gets the triple doubles his team wins, when he sits his team is trash. Nobody has ever come close to average a triple double in the modern era. I'm not even a Westbrook or OKC fan but damn He is the definition of MVP!

Broussard is the real deal, he knows what he talks about

"I have Kawhi number 3 coz they win with or without him...." What kind of a reason is that?

finally someone said it. they are looking for someone else to win the award. i would give it to russ hands down. when he has a triple double they are 25-6. when he doesn't have a triple double they are 11-23.

Shannon is stupid. Russell Westbrook is the MVP and that shouldn't even be up to debate. The man is averaging a triple-double, on pace to winning 45 games with a team that just lost a top 3 player in KD, and he's the leading scorer of the league? What else is there, really?!!!!

Westbrook Is MVP don't @ me..

I don't like it how he disses whites even tho it's true lol😂😂

Shannon is deluded

Westbrook is MVP and this is his first season without KD.

Skip is right! Westbeast has to win MVP. Harden has Gordon, Anderson, Ariza and now lou. Incredible supporting cast. Look what russ has...

Glad he brought up the race physicality difference, we all know it's the truth but it seems like a lot of people are still scared to bring up that point.👍🏼

He has historical numbers and puts the most heart into the game by far. RWMVP.

In my opinion the best player in the NBA, Westbrook.

westbrook 4th in mvp? im sorry having lebron ahead of him is blasphemous. their not even dominating the east

I was playing 2k yesterday in my career I swear to God I had 32 points 17 Rebounds, 12 assists, 11 blocks, and 13 steals!!! Its so hard to do that!

Chris Broussard hit the nail on the head, real truth.

Selfish?? His team is .800 when he has a triple double. They're .324 when he doesn't. Dude is 6'3" and is averaging a triple double through 75% of the season. That's unprecedented. Not to disrespect Bron or Harden or Kawhi but Russell Westbrook IS MVP of the league

Thank God Shannon doesn't have a vote

1.James Harden 2.Russel Westbrook 3.Lebron James 4.Kawhi Leonard

Chris should have his own show, his podcast is good but not enough content

1. Harden 2. Westbrook 3. Kawhi 4. Lebron 5. Isaiah T.

How is he in 4th I can maybe maybe except 2nd look at the numbers tell me who has done this

Do people understand what the word 'valuable' means? Averaging a triple double IS NOT valuable if your record is trash.

JOY IS MY MVP! DAMN!

Chris Broussard got that Steve Harvey hair treatment going on I know y'all see it 😂😂😂

I love Joy.

they literally ask the same 3 questions every single day. 1. is rus mvp? 2. who will win the finals? 3. is bron better than jordan?

I hate it when people just point to his shooting percentage and blame him for shooting too much. His usage rate is through the roof. He has to carry the team

Thunder is .803% when Russell puts up a triple double and .323% when he doesn't... So I don't see how his triple double is overrated when they win every time he puts one up

Russell Westbrook is definitely a top contender for MVP (runner-up at the very least). I don't understand why people can't get past his field goal percentages when Allen Iverson dominated the MVP voting back in 2001 with similar fg% (42%) and scoring (31.1 ppg) while playing almost 8(!) more minutes (42 mpg) than Westbrook. People also hate on Westbrook's turnovers (they're not pretty, yes) but Harden is actually averaging more per game (5.8 tov) and even LeBron James has a higher turnover rate (16.5% to 15.6%) than Russ. Right now, I'd give Russ the MVP without even pointing to his triple doubles and just basing purely from watching him be everything and do everything (read: valuable) for his team EVERY GAME. But for those "experts" and "analysts" that conveniently use stats when they favor Harden and LBJ, then we should put their raw averages and advanced stats side-by-side. Harden: 29.1 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 11.2 apg, 1.5 spg, 44% fg, 36% 3fg, 85% ft, 5.8 tov, 36.5 mpg 27.6 PER, 12.5 win shares, 10.0 box plus/minus, 5.46 real plus/minus, 7.2 value over replacement player Westbrook: 31.9 ppg, 10.5 rpg, 10.1 apg, 1.6 spg, 42% fg, 34% 3fg, 84% ft, 5.4 tov, 34.8 mpg 30.2 PER, 10.0 win shares, 14.6 box plus/minus, 6.35 real plus/minus, 9.5 value over replacement player James: 26.1 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 8.8 apg, 1.3 spg, 54% fg, 39% 3fg, 68% ft, 4.2 tov, 37.6 mpg 26.7 PER, 10.0 win shares, 8.3 box plus/minus, 6.9 real plus/minus, 5.7 value over replacement player You see, Westbrook's shooting splits are not even that far from Harden's! And if he had even one shooter the caliber (and experience, coz they literally have 3 rookies in the rotation!) of Ryan Anderson or Eric Gordon, who's to say he can't get another assist per game off of that. And even probably a couple of wins. Coz yeah, they are the worst 3pt shooting team! Also, Westbrook's presence on the court is clearly positive and valuable based on PER, win shares, plus/minus stats, and VORP.

even if we ignore stats and look at value, without russ the thunder are arguably the worst team in the league

At 0:40 Chris says "long and hard" and you can see Joy start to smile

Shannon is not biased. Nothing he said wasn't a FACT OR STATISTIC

Chris broussard just dissed tf outta white people damn

Are they gonna debate this every day? Wait a few weeks to talk about it if you're just gonna change your mind every day

"Wesbrook shoots 1-6 from 3" LeBron shot 0-6 last night...

OKC is fighting the Lakers & Nets for worst in the league without Westbeast... Those other MVP candidates have great teams and coaches..

The Thunder's winning percentage when Westbrook gets a triple double is .806. When he doesn't, it's .316 or something like that. End of discussion

how much more valuable can Westbrook be? no one around him who can shoot. and he still gets 13 assists. No Westbrook. No Thunder Win. No Triple Double. No Thunder Win.

How much more can these shows keep talking about the same thing everyday cmon now

This is like the craziest flip from love to hate on a player

I respect russ, but please dont compare him with wilt chamberlain. That man was a beast

For all the people that say that james harden cares about winning remeber that he is shooting 33% in the fourth quarter.

I believe Westbrook will beat the oscar record and get in playoffs. He should would MVP.

I like how they bring in brussard to talk with them about NBA

Westbrook deserves it if he avgs a trip double, thats a historic season, yea harden and kawhi and lebron doing better but just on the sheer fact of triple double for his height too he deserves

The main reason why Wilt and Bill Russell were so dominant back in the day is because they were a foot taller than the average player. When you have such a height advantage of course you're going to grab 25+ rebounds with 50+ points.

Finally Chris speaking the truth

I agree with Chris. His reporting has been a point lately.

Wow Chris really does his homework. I'm glad Undisputed is using him a lot more unlike first take. I actually watch Undisputed because of him more than skip and Shannon.

Mr. Shannon, Russell is the MVP because THEY CAN'T WIN WITHOUT HIM. He is the most VALUABLE player because he is the sole reason his team has 45 wins without a strong roster and their former all-star, MVP, franchise-player Kevin Durant. Kawhi is not the MVP because his team can win without him. LeBron is always an MVP candidate because he's always great but Russel's numbers are better than his and James Harden's. He deserves MVP. Period. No discussion. It's undisputed.

Westbrook MVP. I never thought I'd live to see someone average a triple double.

lol cant believe broussard said that on live tv

what about Joy Taylor.. OMG

Westbrook is good, I can't deny that but he does not look like an MVP to me. You can take this argument and use it against every other MVP ever if you want. In my opinion, he's stat stuffing. Look at what he did when he was one rebound away from 10, he completely disengaged his man and hung around in the paint for the rebound. Had ball movement been better on that particular play the Spurs would have had a guy wide open. You'll also notice that none of the actual big men down in the paint even boxed out. They let him get that rebound. I'm [not] sorry but that doesn't scream MVP to me. That screams "regular guy stuffing his numbers". He's getting the assists because almost every play goes through him. There's no ball movement. Law of averages pretty much applies here. As long as he continues to be the [pretty much] ONLY person on the team handling the ball, he's going to get all the assists. If the team full of NBA players can score at all, if he passes the ball 20-30 times a night, you can count on 10 of those going in. That'd be more impressive if not for how the team's play structure is balanced around him doing whatever he wants. He's not getting all those points or assists because he's particularly good at getting them, he's getting them because nobody else is really allowed to. The same thing applies to his points and the fact that he's leading the league. You don't think LeBron could easily do that if he took 70+% of the team's shots. Of course he's going to score that much if he's always the one shooting the ball. Westbrook makes the rest of his team look like garbage because of how he plays. IDK, it just irks me that people think of him as an MVP when he's really just a ball hog.

Chris B. is one intelligent BBall critic. Amazing.

Shannon Sharpe should be the new Cottonmouth since Ali died.

Respects to Lebron, Leonard, and Harden But Westbrook has more then deserved this award. With no team and the fact that he has beat these teams alone , that solidifies it for me ..Westbrook MVP

He shouldn't have focused on one race. He should of said, if you take out the blacks and add other player's. He isn't wrong in what he said, but there were less offensive ways of saying it.

Well said Chris Im glad he's around more often

Shannon just simply doesn't understand basketball. You keep pointing out Russ's FG% even after Chris and Skip keep pointing out that he doesn't have a lot around him. He doesn't have a lot of space to work with so teams are focused on stopping him when he drives in. Teams are building walls because of the lack of space. Everything he's doing is making OKC a playoff team in the WESTERN CONFERENCE.

4.07 - I love how Skip is defedning the white race :D

4th ? 😂😂 bro Russ mvp season is so underrated. Just bcs the media only talks about the triple double . They barley ever talk about how clutch he was this year

He said Kawhi because they win with or without Kawhi I'm done this isn't even an Individual award anymore.

Lebron shouldn't even be in the conversation

Shannon so the guys that plays both ends of the floor and goes 100 MPH on every trip down the floor is 4th on your list, at the same time the guy that doesn't even attempt to play D and flops around to get to the line is 1st on your list? Makes sense to me.

Russell needs to put his TEAM in a high playoff seed to be considered an MVP.

Westbrook The Goat this year man !!! He is rare !!!!!! RARE 🙏🏽

what Russell is doing is greatness #MVP

"Put Shaq or Lebron in the White Boy Era and it wouldn't be a contest." -Chris Broussard. Lmaooooooo

I'm still tryna figure out Broussards hair color 😂 He got the comb back in the front and waves in the back 😂 Bro is saucin on the set

Chris Broussard MVP with that explanation 😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😭

"Shannon Cuban" must be the lamest joke Skip has ever made. And there's been a lot lmao

SHANNON IS RIDICULOUS!!!

Even if he's selfish, most players couldn't do this if they tried. And russ has NO BENCH. Leonard has the best coach of all time that's always good, lebron can't even carry a title favorite team, and harden? Better teammates and no triple double. Its westbrook or Isaiah thomas

i can listen to broussard all day

Chris Broussard should have shut everybody up with that statement...Russell Westbrook is the MVP this year case closed...Been saying it all year, if that manz Averages a tipple double he wins the MVP...This is sports and no matter how hard you try, you cant deny unprecedented greatness!!!

0:08 i thought he would be the kinda guy to say yes

Hate Skip for football like him for Basketball. Like Shannon for football hate him for basketball

I swear people love to hate on Russ. He is averaging a triple double and they are 25-6 when he does but are horrible when he doesn't. Please stop hating and start recognizing. 10q!

LOL if you would rather have Westbrook instead of lebron on your team... your trippin

thank u chris broussard

Shannon man.....c'mon bruh. Looks like Skip's hate starting to rub off on you!😂

Mentioning race is so unnecessary to make a point about the MVP for this year! Smh...Westbrook gets hard criticism, but he is a great player and deserves to be among the top two choices for MVP.

7.7 of Russell rebounds are uncontested.

I like how Shannon was like "the Spurs don't need Kawahi to win games, but he's ahead of Westbrook, anyways."

I agree with what he said. Westbrook is beating good teams. He deserves the mvp

i see why shannon might not be there too long. no matter how often he yells, "cmon skip". his bball acumen leaves a bit more to be desired

i don't think shannon is impressed with any nba player not named lebron james

Kove is surely still in with a shout

Chris Broussard just stepped up in my book ✊🏾

HOW COME NOBODY MENTIONS THAT RUSS IS LEADING THE LEAGUE IN SCORING TOO?

even if he doesn't maintain the triple double. it's more to it why he's MVP.

It's such a relief hearing skip talking sense finally, Westbrook for MVP

1. Kawhi 2. Westbrook ... 100. Harden

The one point that I think that a lot of people aren't mentioning about why Russell should be considered the MVP is the fact that this is his first season after being left high and dry by Durant, and he's been able to average a triple double and has his team in the playoffs in the western conference. Literally Durant left him with nothing, no help just some role players and some guys who haven't broken out of their potential; and yet he's been having a monster season in spite of Durant's departure. I think we all expected the Thunder to just suck badly this year, but they're in the playoffs currently at 7th all because of Russ and his effort to find his teammates and score and rebound like a monster. How many other teams would've just tanked and not have been relevant or had any success? Look at D Wade and Bosh when Lebron left, didn't have too much success. The fact that they're still relevant becuase of what Russ is having them do is MVP worthy. All other candidates have better teams and stronger benches; Westbrook is doing the most with the least becuase he's the Most Valuable Player.

Spurs with 50 wins in the West. Cavs with 42 wins in the East. Yet Shannon puts Lebron ahead of Kawhi. Surprise, surprise!