The best athlete in American sports is a basketball player who leads his team to win a remarkable 57% of its games. Mark Cuban had it right: this guy is a fraud who didn't belong in the MVP discussion, let alone "best athlete", and of course BSPN bought it hook, line, and sinker. I can't remember a more self-centered statistical obsession from one player to put himself on a pedestal. LeBron James was winning 60+ games earlier in his career (as opposed to Westbrook's 47 wins) with a worse supporting cast, but LeBron didn't do everything in his power to put up some meaningless stat line. Classic BSPN...feeding into the selfish, headline making sports culture that they help to create.
And not to take anything away from Kevin Durant's finals performance, but he added himself to a record setting, All-NBA team and still wasn't the best player in that series. Brady's championship performance will be remembered five decades from now. Durant? Not even sure if he'll shed his punchline reputation as the biggest front runner in sports. Is there any doubt that with Curry healthy this time, the Warriors would have won that series even without Durant? Deshaun Watson was also a much better choice than Durant; like Brady, his performance was legendary and he carried the team on his shoulders.
Last note: I guess the fickle BSPN staff forgets that in mid-October, Aaron Rodgers was being compared to Blake Bortles for his first half performance, before GB played its cake schedule. They were publishing articles that he is a fraud who lacks leadership skills, with multiple teammates taking shots at him. The again, predicting you will "run the table" and then losing in the playoffs is better than not making a ****y prediction, then actually running the table from the same point in the season, which includes winning the the Super Bowl. Brady didn't actually run the table, since he didn't tell a reporter he was going to, so he loses points.
