I don’t much mind who wins individual awards in team games, but what I also noticed, and which felt very insidious, was the level to which media talking heads tried to downplay the Nuggets’ championship, claiming their playoff opponents were easy - like it’s their fault the favorites in the East couldn’t make the Finals. I know they wouldn’t say that about a team led by LeBron instead of by a white guy. I notice a similar need to be ostentatious among football media figures whenever Lamar Jackson is discussed. The dude’s undoubtedly in the top-10 QBs right now, most probably in that 6-10 range, but they talk him up like he’s right there with Mahomes. There is a QB in Jackson’s own division who has been to the Super Bowl and won five playoff games in two years, while Jackson has a grand total of one career playoff victory, but because that other QB is white some (not all but a fair number) of commentators act like it’s debatable as to which of them is better. I should probably care less, but it’s irritating when the media abandons all sense in favor of socially-acceptable feels.