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Kobe Bryant
Chris Paul
Kevin Garnett
Lebron James
Chauncey Billups
Tim Duncan
Dwight Howard
Steve Nash
Deron Williams
Someone else (Please explain)
Kobe should have gotten it in 05. but Nash deserved it in 04. Shaq was only in the discussion because the media had a crush on him at the time, the way they do for KG this year.
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I'm really surprised KG has so few votes...
We go through this debate every year, but the MVP, in my mind, is the player who has been most valuable to his team and who has played the majority of the season. Yao's injury rules him out, b/c he's the MVP on the Rockets, or he WAS.
The only two I think you can argue have truly transformed their teams - mentally and physically - are KG and Chris Paul. And I think Chris Paul is too young - give him another season at this level before we award it to him. And I think New Orleans will fall to the middle of the WC in standings, which will hurt him.
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when you say 05 do you mean the 04-05 season or the 05-06 season?
I think KG could have been in the running if he didn't get injured.
Since KG got injured, there's really only 3 MVP candidates: LeBron, CP3, and Kobe. CP3 is too young so really it's LeBron and Kobe. LeBron will need a #1 or #2 seed to win it...which is obviously unlikely.
05-06. The year he averaged around 35 ppg.
def kobe...they usually give it to the best player with a good record...if Lebron gets it...then Kobe got fcked 2 yrs ago.
You're a year off. There's no way Shaq had a better year than Garnett in 04. Shaq had a monster year in his first season in Miami in '05, but Nash deserved his MVP. The one Shaq got screwed on was '01 when the media anointed Iverson MVP after about the first month of the season. Kobe didn't even make the playoffs in '05.
In '06 he killed the rest of the league, scoring 35ppg with the 81-point game vs Toronto and the 62 points in three quarters against Dallas. It's a travesty that he didn't win the MVP that season, when he had the best season a player has had since maybe Shaq's 2000 campaign.
That same thinking awarded Karl Malone the MVP in a year where Duncan was clearly the superior player in almost every possible way.
I would have to say Kobe. He's changed his image around and the Lakers are playing great ball. This is not fan boi talk. Sometimes MVP is based on more than just the single year. We all know that. Kobe has played well enough throughout his whole career to get the nod over some of the other guys. I think next in line would be CP3. Kid is ballin. KG has changed the whole mentality in Boston but as far as actually playing basketball I would say no. Pierce and Ray Ray have a lot to do with that also. All three are playing great as a unit but none "MVP" worthy. I don't know if that makes sense. The media is hard up for KG and it's rather annoying. This is the same KG that punches teammates in the face for losing at playing cards and teammates who dunk on him in practice right? KG just has a better public image than Kobe. Lebron is in the mix also but like he said if Kobe's never got it why should he? He will get his. This is similar to the Oscar voting system where it's just whacked out.
KG didn't miss THAT much time, and now he's back. Moreover, team reports and media writers spent the whole time he was out talking about how valuable he was to the team even when he wasn't playing. I think he'll get it.
There's an article/voting poll today at CNNSI by Marty Burns which actually names KG, Lebron and Kobe as the top candidates.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?eref=T1
According to Burns:
1) Kobe
2) Bron Bron
3) KG
4) CP3
5) DHo
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