Conn Smythe Race Has No Clear Favorite Yet

The playoff MVP conversation is getting interesting because nobody has fully slammed the door on the field, and that is where the Conn Smythe race starts to get spicy. ESPN’s watch list is built around the players who have carried nights, not just collected points, and that usually means the real story is still being written shift by shift. The trophy often goes to the guy who can tilt a series when everybody in the building knows he is the man to stop.