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Reality check: There are another 13 days before Game 7 of the NBA Finals will be played, if it is played. So, before we all go prematurely awarding the finals MVP award to Steph Curry or Jayson Tatum, as the sportsbooks seem to be doing, let’s all note that Draymond Green was all they were talking about on ESPN Monday morning.

Should this guy really be +8000 after the impact he had on Game 2?

Well, that is where his odds are today as Curry is +100, Tatum is +115, Jaylen Brown is +900 and everyone else is at least +7000. That is sensible from the standpoint that those three named players are the offensive catalysts for their respective teams.

But we have all heard the expression that 'defense wins Championships,' and what Green did to the Celtics on Sunday night, getting into their heads and getting into their faces, had a major impact on Boston getting thrown out of sorts in a game that turned hard Golden State’s way in the third quarter of a 107-88 victory.

Green also was what a majority of the mainstream media NBA writers were writing about, and we should remind everyone that writers are the majority of the people who will cast the ballots that ultimately determines who will get the award.

On ESPN.com Monday morning, there are two very similar Draymond stories, and the lead photograph was of Green holding his mouthpiece as he got into the ear of Marcus Smart. As Tim Keown wrote, Green was determined to be an annoying as hell for as long as possible in order to change the Warriors’ fortunes following the fourth-quarter collapse in Game 1 put Boston in the driver’ seat.

Green was a pest whether he was matched against Al Horford, Brown or anyone else, and he defended four of five different Celtics over the course of the night and set the tone for the Dubs with his unceasing chatter and banter.

"For me to sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm going to push it to this edge and try to pull back,' that don't work," Green said. "I've got to be me. So the first tech -- it is what it is. That's not going to stop me from being aggressive or doing what I do on the basketball court. Just got to live with the results."

Green is as talkative as they come, which is why he is on TNT on nights when the Warriors are not playing, and why he will have a long career in broadcasting once his playing days are over. Not since Charles Barkley has there been a guy like Green who pushes the envelope on and off the court, so what we need to do today is decide whether he is wager-worthy at the odds we are seeing.

No defensive-minded player has won the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award since Andre Iguodala of the Warriors did it in 2015, which was seven years ago when Iggy was doing a bunch on offense, too, as the Warriors were defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers that postseason.

But Iguodala was doing so much on both ends, he got all of the credit when the votes were tabulated despite Curry being the Warriors’ leading scorer in four of the six games in that series.

Curry is again leading the Warriors in scoring after going for 34 points in Game 1 and 29 in Game 2, and nobody else on the Warriors is even close when it comes to offensive production. Andrew Wiggins dropped from 20 points to 11 in Game 2, Klay Thompson dropped from 15 to 11, and Kevon Looney was the only starter who had a production bump as he went from four points to 12.

Green had nine points, seven assists, five rebounds a steal and a block in Game 2 after shooting just 2-for-12 and putting up a line of four points, 11 rebounds and five assists in Game 1.

The sportsbooks are looking at those stats when setting their futures lines, and they are not properly accounting for what writers often call “the narrative” when they start typing their stories – and often when they are casting their ballots.

During the 2010 finals, your faithful correspondent was a voter and waited until 30 seconds were left in Game 7 before voting for Pau Gasol, who won an epic fourth-quarter mano-a-mano battle with Kevin Garnett to decide that series. Kobe Bryant ended up winning that particular award, but that Game 7 was one of the few times in his career that he was not the most important player on the court at the most important time. Gasol was.

So keep that true story in mind over the course of this week as the game action slows considerably. There are another two days off between games again today and tomorrow, and after Game 4 on Friday night there will be a basketball-free weekend before Game 5 is played back in San Francisco on Monday.

That leaves a lot of time for talking and debating, and there is no better talker in this series than Green. Whether we are talking about him as a worthy MVP choice will be determined in large part by what transpires in Games 3 and 4. Heck, we could be talking about Marcus Smart as the most important defender by the time this is all said and done, and he is on the board this particular Monday at +7000.

So if you believe in long shots, those are the guys for whom you must determine wager-worthiness in playing the long game in this series. It says here that both are, and if you had to pick only one of the two, the guy to select would be Green. There is a lot more of what he brought to the table Sunday night residing inside that 32-year-old head and that 32-year-old mouth.

If he turns up the offensive production a couple notches in two nights, we will not see him at +8000 anymore. That is about the only thing that is guaranteed in this NBA Finals.