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AD missed his window to win the MVP, if you were him would you stay in NOLA to win an MVP or go to the Lakers to win a ring? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by ElectronicWolf8650@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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If AD had stayed in New Orleans, he for sure would've won an MVP award. He was putting up big numbers during his stint there and with no other star player around him, he could have beefed up his stats. However since going to Los Angeles, he had to play along side LeBron James, and despite being well into his late 30s, he's still that guy and AD's chances of winning MVP diminished.

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[–] runevault@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The odds he stays healthy enough to ever win MVP if he stayed in NO is incredibly low. It isn't like the idea of AD being day-to-day was new to his time on the Lakers. It was a risk they were willing to take on because the upside if he could stay healthy for a playoff run was a title in their eyes (which was clearly correct, even if they needed specific conditions to make it easier to stay healthy, and to be clear this isn't shitting on the Lakers every title has some favorable conditions of if nothing else health of traditionally healthy players [See: GSW's last year with KD where they couldn't win because of injuries]).