Dave Cowens, 1973 MVP
The Celtics big man was one of the most head-scratchingest MVP choices ever. Not because Cowens wasn’t great in 1972-73, but there were two clearly better choices — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain — and four guys who had as much a case as Cowens did: Tiny Archibald, John Havlicek, Jerry West, and Walt Frazier.