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I'VE NEVER HEARD fans chanting MVP for an opposing player at Oracle Arena.
To be fair, it is not Warriors fans doing the chanting. It is a group of Celtics fans looking about as Celtics fan-y as Celtics fans can look, a small assembly of green jerseys over white T-shirts about 10 rows behind the visitors basket, thick frat-guy torsos and weathered baseball caps and beers sloshing from plastic cups as their opposite fists crank in time to their incantations.