Bill Difilippo of Uproxx: “If you want to use the term “value” — as in value a player adds to
their team — Westbrook leads the league in Value Over Replacement Player and Box/Minus Plus while having a Usage Percentage that is on pace (41.5 percent) to shatter the all-time record set by Kobe Bryant in 2005-06 (38.74 percent). The load he is shouldering for his team is unprecedented. The MVP race is almost certainly going to come down to the final day. I have no idea who should win it (Harden, Westbrook, and LeBron have all been unreal, and Isaiah Thomas deserves more love than he’s getting), but would anyone be surprised if voters value Westbrook’s history triple-double numbers above anything else, even if Oklahoma City’s ceiling is fourth in the Western Conference?