Nobody is more 'valuable' to his team than James Harden. There's not another single rocket on any of those lists. All of the other candidates have teammates that have helped carry their teams load. Harden is the only rocket teams' key on and they still rarely shut him down. I really don't think there's even any one else in the conversation besides curry. Westbrook while amazing hasn't produced wins and LeBron plays in the Eastern conference... and came in second.