Last season, Stephen Curry was the first reigning MVP to be on the team that won the NBA Finals to not win the Finals MVP Award since Kareem Abdul-Jabar lost the award to his teammate, Magic Johnson. This season, it looks like the same thing could potentially happen. Through two games, Steph hasn’t looked like the best player on his team. As it stands today, it looks like either Draymond Green could win it or Andre Iguodala could win the award again.
Steph was asked about whether or not he wants to win it, and according to Ethan Sherwood Strauss of ESPN, he doesn’t really care who wins it.
“That’s obviously a highly touted award,” Curry said, “deservedly so, when a guy steps up in the biggest moments. But as long as it’s somebody from our team, means we won.
“I’ll be all right.”
You know that Steph wants to win the award deep down, but he won’t admit that. He is a team player. He is going to play within the offense no matter what, and he isn’t going to play hero ball so that he wins the award. With the way the Cleveland Cavaliers are defending him, he may not win it. They are doubling him, and they are not letting him score a lot of points.
The voters aren’t going to reward Steph for finding open teammates when he is doubled, but they are going to reward a player who scores a lot of points. It would be weird to see the league’s back-to-back MVP not win the Finals MVP award two seasons in a row, but the Warriors want to win the series before they talk about this award.
