NBA's Maxey: Most Improved Player? Odds, Predictions
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00:00 MVP to MIP, the most improved player around the association, much like the comeback player
00:09 of the year award in the NFL.
00:10 Would love to see the staunch criteria for this award because I always thought Tyrese
00:15 Maxey was pretty good.
00:16 He opened as an 11 to 1 odds number to win the MIP before the year got started.
00:23 He is now the odds on favorite at minus 200.
00:26 So take the bait or wait, if Tyrese Maxey is going to win the most improved player,
00:31 is this the time to get in?
00:33 This is the time to get in right now.
00:35 It really is.
00:36 So we take a look.
00:37 I'm looking live updated here numbers at the FanBlue Sportsbook.
00:39 Maxey's a minus 200 price as it's listed to win this.
00:42 And you say, Don, you're going to contradict yourself.
00:44 You just said you didn't want to take Nicola Jokic as the MVP because it's a minus money
00:47 price.
00:48 Well, so let's understand the consequences here with the Philadelphia 76ers that are
00:52 quite frankly playing out right in front of our eyes.
00:55 The Sixers are a lost cause without Joel Embiid.
00:58 They have one guy who can take a game over and that's Tyrese Maxey.
01:01 And he did last night and they still lost that basketball game.
01:04 So if we try to take a look at, let's say the final 20 games of the season, which we
01:08 don't think Joel Embiid will be back for, well, who's going to be piling up numbers
01:12 north of 25 points every single night for the Sixers?
01:15 Just being that stat hoarder, that's going to be Tyrese Maxey.
01:18 Sure.
01:19 Kobe White, Kamingo, Shangoon, Williams, Barnes.
01:21 I get it here.
01:22 But if I have one guy that's going to be able to say, you know what, if I want to shoot
01:25 30 times tonight, I'm allowed to do that.
01:28 Those numbers will pile up.
01:29 It's Tyrese Maxey for me.
01:31 Even if the price point isn't great, the path for him is tremendous here, Ben.
01:36 Obviously most valuable player, MVP versus most improved player, not necessarily the
01:42 same guidelines that you would follow in terms of star power.
01:46 But Kobe White is probably not the guy to rise on the way up for a Chicago Bulls team.
01:51 It's now four games below 500 to catch Tyrese Maxey in this market, like Shade Gilgis Alexander
01:58 or Luka Doncic could in the MVP race behind Nikola Jokic.
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02:04 (chimes)