Last season' regular season Suns finished second in the league, and finally won the Western Conference Championship, and the Finals were overturned by the Bucks with a 2-0 lead at one point, which is a pity. The Suns have made a comeback in the new season, and have now led the Golden State Warriors by 1.5 wins, ranking first in the league, but such an excellent Suns team has never been valued by the NBA. In the official MVP list released not long ago, the top five are the Bucks' alphabet brother, the Nuggets' Jokic, the Nets' Durant, the 76ers' Embiid and the Bulls' DeRozan, and none of the top five Suns players.
In the top ten, the Suns players are only Chris Paul, Paul's statistics this season are 14.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 10.0 assists, which is a big gap compared with his peak, but Paul is the league's assist king, the efficiency value is also very high, and he deserves a higher ranking. Booker, another core player of the Suns, averaged 23.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, and his shooting efficiency was very high, including a three-point shooting rate of 41%. But the funny thing is that Booker didn't even make the list, which is really difficult for Sun fans to accept!
Looking back at Curry's first MVP season, he averaged only 23.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game, but that year Curry was at the top of the MVP list from the beginning of the season to the end, and finally got the regular season MVP as desired. If you compare the data with Booker, the gap is actually not large, but why is Booker not on the list but Stephen Curry is on the list? Could it be that the league deliberately suppressed the Suns? If it is not deliberately suppressing the sun, why does Booker not even have a chance to enter the top ten?
In fact, looking at last year's Utah Jazz, you can understand that the small-ball city team really has no say. Last season, the Jazz record was the first in the league, Mitchell's data was 26.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists, which was definitely a big hit for MVP, but Mitchell did not even enter the final MVP discussion! And the reason why he didn't get into the discussion is largely because the Jazz really don't have traffic, and the Sun is also going the old way of the Jazz today, so why is there no traffic? Or the star's star flavor is insufficient.
Recall that a season before Curry took the MVP, almost pulled the Spurs into the water, played his playoff career masterpiece, and directly became a popular teenager. Booker and Mitchell have been supporting roles until now, and although Paul was a superstar in the past, he probably doesn't have so many fans now, so for all these reasons, the Suns can't win individual awards for players even if they have excellent results!