Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
-Buddha
Those that would pick at the triple-double’s statistical components to diminish it’s significance in this MVP race tend to start by depreciating the rebounds by over stressing the number of uncontested rebounds Russell is afforded each game and then move on quickly. There’s a reason for that.
Contested rebound %
For all of Lowe and Cowherd’s harping about uncontested rebounds, it is plain to see that the majority of rebounds all the guards in this MVP race garner are uncontested, but let’s be fair.