Huh, looking into it, he also made the first team All-NBA that year over Magic fuckin’ Johnson, so I guess people were just insane in 1981-82.

At least they didn’t name a fucking kicker the MVP, like the NFL did later that same year.

Though I got lucky with “fifth place in 1981-82?

It was nonsense that he was in the top five of the MVP balloting. He was a good player in the midst of his best stretch of his career, but yikes. He did have a really good season that year, so, like, top ten wouldn’t be crazy, but top five? Come on.

In my googling for the MVP voting by year, I found this. Have fun. I believe that the olds on the board will have a distinct advantage… I’m just going to mash names I’ve heard of but never actually seen play for everything until 1980 or so.

Really cool find, that site took me down a rabbit hole for NBA quizzes.

I’ll say the past couple of years playing various NBA 2K iterations really helped me with this though.

I ended up with 292/299, mainly off the strength of playing with a bunch of classic teams and keeping track of MyTeam cards. Though I got lucky with “fifth place in 1981-82” because I was thinking someone else with the same last name. I blanked on fifth place in 1984-85 because I only remembered him from his late career.

Never let it be said that video games don’t teach you something.

271/299, but I also missed a couple of guys by spelling their names wrong and I had everyone from 1982-3 on (fuck you, fifth place in 1981-82, you were a terrible choice!) (except for 2005-06, because I just missed that I had an empty spot on the list. I thought I had it filled out. I would have eventually guessed the right guy for that spot).

I struggled so hard with Glen Rice, but got back to 1980 pretty well. Totally screwed on 60s, though. I even missed Bill Russell, which would have added like 10 because he was real good at roundball. I think I was around 235.

Sometimes a piece of tech comes out that literally changes your life, ereaders were one if those for me.

I agree, though I’ll note that, as Amazon is trying to destroy the publishing industry that enables writers like DFW to find audiences, buying ebooks other places is better when possible. (Though it isn’t possible often because of stupid DRM.)

Kindle is a gamechanger for Infinite Jest, doubly so if you’re a subway reader.

Oh man, so much this. I get to one hand an entire library! Sometimes a piece of tech comes out that literally changes your life, ereaders were one if those for me.

In my googling for the MVP voting by year, I found this. Have fun. I believe that the olds on the board will have a distinct advantage… I’m just going to mash names I’ve heard of but never actually seen play for everything until 1980 or so.

271/299, but I also missed a couple of guys by spelling their names wrong and I had everyone from 1982-3 on (fuck you, fifth place in 1981-82, you were a terrible choice!) (except for 2005-06, because I just missed that I had an empty spot on the list. I thought I had it filled out. I would have eventually guessed the right guy for that spot).

The thing is that you’re always respectful and super nice, so really the changes in subject are more welcome changes of pace than something disruptive.

The real disruptive people, aka the people who can’t understand that 1+1 equals 2 all day long, are what’s annoying to most.