You guys voted in the first five polls, so I'll give you the order of fanspo's MVPs and the real life MVPs. my only regret is not making it two days, so this time it will be three!
1977: Kareem
Actual MVP: Kareem
(duh)
1978: Kareem
Actual MVP: Walton
(a bit surprising walton finished T-3rd in MVP voting this year, flipping the order a bit).
1979: Malone
Actual MVP: Malone
A good portion of you guys (35%) voted Kareem, but Malone took the cake with 55 percent of the votes went to malone)
1980: Julius Erving
Actual MVP: Kareem
(a close race between kareem (40 percent and erving (45%) but erving takes the cake).
1981: Julius Erving
Actual MVP: Julius Erving
(bird came closest with 35% of the votes going to him).
Notable fact: under this, kareem now has the same exact number of MVPs, since you guys voted him in back to back years. he joins russell, chamberlain, and bird (hmmmmmmm ...) in the list of guys with 3 MVPs under this format.
Onto the next five polls:
1982: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/general/p/SwpPihTrhO8mih/1982
1983: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/general/p/m4aRsRcP-OKxFy/1983
1984: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/general/p/NwxXOTVkLJe4-w/1984
1985: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/general/p/FavRqFwoP6_DsH/1985
1986: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/general/p/XoRQN5uSyqvKgg/1986