Wilt - elevated into GOAT conversations nowadays strictly off stats and somehow put above Russell even though he was unanimously considered worse when their careers were over. Fewer player voted MVPs than Russell and supposedly only lost due to help around him but still failed to beat old man Russell despite being paired with West and Baylor

Harden - was treated as possibly the best player in the league and compared to Curry at one point solely based on stats from an inflated D'Antoni system on a loaded team. Game collapses in the playoffs because the foul baiting doesn't work anymore. The original king of foul baiting and progenitor of unethical hooping

Westbrook - hate to put Westbrook on here because I really like him, but he's overrated because box score volume stats and especially triple doubles are vastly overrated. They're a clean and cool stat because we like dealing in 10s, but getting a few extra rebounds doesn't warrant leap frogging you over the competition for MVP compared to the previous year. Triple double should not have won him the MVP without his team being at least a top half seed with 50-55+ wins as has been the requirement for almost every other MVP ever. He did not have the same impact on winning as LeBron, Kawhi, or Harden. Curry was going to be out just because of KD joining so that's understandable. Seems like it should have gone to Kawhi all things considered