We don’t care who’s the MVP of the NBA regular season. All we want is for Nikola Jokic to be MVP of the NBA Finals.

– H.N., Denver

Kiz: In more than four decades of covering the NBA, I’ve never been asked to cast a ballot for MVP. But it seems to me the award has become little more than an exercise in crunching numbers and personal bias by voters. Want the correct ranking of the MVP candidates? Here’s mine. No. 1: Victor Wembanyama. Look beyond the stellar stats to how he’s transformed the Spurs into a legit title contender at age 22. No. 2: Jokic. When’s the last time any player led the league in rebounding and assists? Wilt Chamberlain in 1967-68. No. 3: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Nobody’s better than SGA at scoring a bucket when his team needs it.

Nick Faldo is 100% accurate in his criticism of Tiger Woods.

– Kevin, straight shooter

Kiz:  “I feel sorry for Tiger, because he’s living in 24/7 pain … but it’s all been self-inflicted,” said Faldo, who thinks Woods deserves a healthy dose of tough love. “The bottom line is: I really think that something should be done a little bit more seriously than waving (Woods) off to a tropical island (for rehab) and saying ‘Welcome back’ in three or four months.” Woods has done more to tarnish his legacy than elevate the game since 2019, when he won The Masters. This once-mighty champion has been reduced to clickbait. And that’s sad. Everybody deserves a second chance. But for Tiger’s own good, golf needs to stop issuing him free passes.

A week into this major league baseball season and the Rockies are already eliminated from the playoffs.

– D.A., Denver

Kiz: Is it just me, or did anybody else find the gushing about how new front-office executive Paul DePodesta and Josh Byrnes were going to transform the Rockies into a real major league team was a bit premature, if not downright delusional? Bringing in journeymen pros like utilityman Willi Castro and pitcher Mark Lorenzen wasn’t inspirational thinking. It was the baseball version of meatball surgery in the desperate hope that some veteran presence could stop the Rockies from hemorrhaging losses. At Coors Field, the first signs of spring always shout the same message: Wait until next year! 

It’s not Rockies diehards who fill Coors Field. It’s mostly transplants to Colorado that go for the rooftop bar and cheer for the visiting team. The revenue from attendance is what allows owner Dick Monfort to keep putting this dumpster fire of a baseball team on the field.

– Loren, Grand Junction

Kiz: OK, so maybe Monfort doesn’t have a clue how to build a champion. But let’s raise a toast to the guy who built the best rooftop bar in LoDo.

And today’s parting shot is a reassurance that no matter what this crazy world throws at us, we can always count on three things in life.

Death, taxes and good ol’ Monday morning QB’ing from the back seat by Kiz.

– Gary, rolling like a stone