Rajon Rondo: Legitimate MVP Candidate? Legitimate MVP Candidate.

About two weeks ago, PeteB11 and I had a very short Gchat conversation:

Peter: Adam

When do we start throwing Rondo in theMVP conversation

Adam: right now?

Peter: He's an MVP candidate

there I said it

As you should know, Pete is a very funny guy, and I thought it was a very funny dialogue. "What a jokester, that Pete!" I thought to myself.

At the time, the only Celtics game I had watched was their opening statement against the Heat. Since then, I've watched five more of their contests, and I'm starting to realize that there's a good chance Pete was being as serious as your life.

Bibby's World: MVP

Don't know how we locked this down, but we'd like to introduce you to No Regard's newest blogging sensation... Mike Bibby! He'll be checking in whenever he can, just to remind us: It's Bibby's World, we just live in it!

THAT'S RIGHT! It's ALL true! Everything you're hearing. Every last word of it:

Mike Bibby is on FIRE this season. 

PPG: 13.5

STL: .5

AST: 3.8

REB: 1.3

3PM: 2.3

FG%: 56%

Stats don't lie. Neither does Ball. But that's apparently a different website. 

Anyhow, to those of you who are wondering what this all means, keep reading.

To those of you who don't care, why don't you go watch The Event or something, because basketball is clearly not for you.

MVPreseason

So I think we're all pretty confident that Kevin Durant is indeed going to be the indisputable number one fantasy player this year. But now we're talking a whole different ballgame!

So let's put this new conversation up for discussion: Should KD also be the consensus preseason pick for MVP? Or do you think that most of these GMs are just spitting back the sour grapes LeBron stuffed down their throats this summer?

Personally, I think the GMs are right. LeBron simply won't be as "valuable" to the Heat as he ever was to Cleveland. Miami would be a very, very good team with D-Wade (provided he's healthy), Bosh, and the rest of the supporting cast they've assembled. And while LeBron certainly takes the team to another level, they would be in decent shape without him.

Think about the Thunder without Durant. As much as I love Westbrook, Jeff Green and James Harden, a KD-less OKC isn't winning more than 25 games. In the coming years, he will lead the Thunder into the elite tier of title contenders, and this season stands to serve as the moment when that process really picks up steam.

This blog is certainly no stranger to drinking the Kevin Durant juice (get your mind out of the gutter), and while I don't want to stoke the flames of unrealistic expectations, this outpouring of GM love doesn't hurt the idea that in 2010-2011, we're all going to Witness a change in the MVP landscape.