Injuries helped greek win a title and helped him not win a title. LolHere's ESPN's same NBA players ranking from 2021: NBArank 2021: Where the final five check in, including LeBron, Giannis and KD
Don't act like it was across the board consensus Giannis was considered the best player after the title
And to address the second point, if Middleton wasn't injured in the Celtics series they might've gone back to back. Giannis avg like 33, 14, and 7, against the C's, the rest of the team just couldn't throw a ping pong ball in the ocean when it mattered.
Call it par for the course