This is one we didn’t expect. ESPN’s Zach Lowe, host of The Lowe Post podcast is one of the best, and most influential voices in the NBA media industry. He has a vote in the MVP race, as well as the All-NBA stuff and other awards. Howard Beck, another rock star in the field, formerly of S.I., NY Times, Bleacher Report, and other major outlets joins Lowe on a recent episode to discuss a bunch of things, including the heated MVP discourse.
But they were both clearly very angry with Daryl Morey. And I got the sense most of it was related to this recent tweet from the Sixers President of B-Ball ops:
media: "The MVP should come from one of the best teams in the league"
how they choose when their preferred candidate barely avoids the play-in tournament: pic.