I don’t want to make the Charles Barkley mistake. 

I don’t want to repeat the Karl Malone error. 

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Michael Jordan won five NBA MVP awards and should have won at least seven. But a Jordan fatigue set in, and voters went looking for someone else. So after Jordan won two in a row, Barkley was elected MVP for the 1992-93 campaign. And after Jordan won the 1995-96 MVP in his first full season back from his baseball foray, Malone was selected the following year. 

In retrospect, Jordan did not win those additional two MVPs because 1) a ho-hum, he is just historically great again mentality pervaded, and 2) voters tend to love narrative and grow bored with repetition.