Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns shone in the NBA bubble, taking his team to an 8-0 record and earning NBA All-Seeding First Team honors in the process.
But according to a sports TV personality, it should have been the MVP.
Skip Bayless shared his thoughts on why Booker, not Damian Lillard, should have taken the honor home on his FS1 show, Undisputed, on Monday.
He said, “You’ve carefully omitted all the Dame-Time fireworks, everything he didn’t do in the bubble and you didn’t even mention the guy who should have been the MVP, Devin Booker, who just took over a team. much younger than Dame’s team and led them to 8-0, beating seven of the eight playoff teams with a margin of victory that was 13 per game compared to Dame’s and the club’s three. those who have played.
“Against the Clippers, he goes to the last shot and became the shot, the most memorable, bubble friction shot … This is what I will remember as the shot … That was a money shot, against the same team who ridiculed and ridiculed Damian Lillard for finishing so small in the fourth quarter and long stretch against their backups … He lost to the backup Clippers by missing a three and obviously missing two key free throws … Against the Clippers he was so incredibly different, it’s Devin Booker’s time, it’s not Dame’s time. “
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An on-site media panel in the Orlando Bubble rated the games played between July 30 and August 14 and they felt differently than Bayless in the MVP.
Lillard was a unanimous MVP as he received all 22 first place votes for a total of 110 points.
Booker got 19 of the 22 votes for second place and a third for third place.
He averaged 30.5 points and six assists across eight seeded games, hitting memorable basketball to beat the Clippers.
Lillard averaged 37.6 points and 9.6 assists in seed matches, bringing Portland to a 6-2 record. He scored 51 career points, 61 and 42 respectively in Portland’s last three seeded games, all of which ended up with victories for Portland to secure a place in the play-in tournament as eighth seed.
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Shannon Sharpe also disagreed with Bayless. He also shared his thoughts on Undisputed on Monday.
He said, “I love Book (Devin Booker) and Book put a number on your team, the Clippers, but if they gave it to someone other than Dame Lillard, after doing what she did in the bubble … like nahh, I’m like no, I’m done with the NBA “.
Duane Rankin of the Arizona Republic contributed to this story.
