And individually, Cade Cunningham made his case to be the league's Most Valuable Player, with 42 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds. Cunningham told ESPN in the preseason that the award wasn't directly a goal, but that it would come as a byproduct of team success. "It comes from doing the things I said, what I needed to do to be in that conversation," Cunningham told ESPN Thursday night. "Now that we're getting closer, there's more (talk), like 'what is your case? You should speak on it'. I don't really care to speak on it. I want the people that vote on it to be smart enough to look at the game for themselves."
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