This is just what NBA debate circles need: two vague MVP awards.

Only a couple of days removed from Houston Rockets star James Harden being named NBA MVP, Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving didn't quite answer if Harden was his choice for the award, instead delineating between two ways he looks at the who's most valuable.

"MVP, it's hard to gauge nowadays, because now you have the people's MVP and you have, like, the NBA's MVP," Irving said while guesting on radio station Hot 97 in New York, via ESPN. "I think the people's MVP was definitely James [Harden], but the NBA MVP is definitely LeBron [James]."

Harden was named MVP in a landslide vote, receiving 86 of the 101 first-place votes. James, who finished in second place, received the remaining 15.

"If we're talking strictly based off stats, like, [LeBron] checks every mark...He's incredible," Irving said. "He's incredible."

Harden averaged 30.4 points, 8.8 assists and 5.4 rebounds this past season, helping the Rockets to 65 regular-season wins. They eventually lost in the Western Conference Finals to the Golden State Warriors, whom they took to seven games. James averaged 27.5 points to go with career highs in both rebounds, 8.6, and assists, 9.1, though his Cleveland Cavaliers disappointed during the regular season, winning 50 games, fourth-best in the Eastern Conference, before heading to another NBA Finals appearance.

Irving, who was on the Cavaliers from 2011 to 2017, played with James in Cleveland from 2014 until the Celtics traded for him this past August. They went to the Finals during each of those seasons, winning a title together in 2016.

The Cavaliers topped the Celtics in this year's Eastern Conference Finals for a second consecutive year. Irving did not play in that series because of a season-ending knee injury he suffered in March.

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Fred Katz covers the Celtics for MassLive.com. Follow him on Twitter: @FredKatz.