Genuinely asking because if not then he’s be the only MVP in league history to not make it. But when you think about the career he had after the injury, the fact we saw less than 4 years of him at what would we come to know as his best, and the credentials of other members, there’s definitely nuance and questions to it.
Malone is in there with his history, and there are worse basketball players in there, too. It isn’t as high of a bar as other sports.