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.
The sexual assault case that he took all the way to trial, where he had to air his sexual dirty laundry in public and on the record, in order to clear his name?
It wasn’t like he got off on a technicality on that one - there was a lot of strong evidence that she was trying to extort him after a consensual encounter, and the jury sided with Rose.