The unofficial award for whoever did the most damage to their own team — the person who, if you flipped the scoreboard, would have been the MVP of the opposing side. The negative mvp is not just bad; they're spectacularly, impactfully bad in ways that actively shaped the outcome. In sports, it's the own goal, the fumble, the tech foul. In everyday life, it's the teammate who single-handedly tanked the project. Named with grim humor and a certain reluctant awe at the scale of the contribution to failure.
Four turnovers and a flagrant foul — that's the negative mvp of the entire playoffs, no contest.
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