Kobe for MVP (good read)

[GangstaBoogy]

Kobe for MVP, by Lang Whitaker

When the game ended, I texted Marcus and said, “Kobe went for 60!”

Marcus wrote back and said, “Again. What! And Steve Nash will get the MVP again. Hmm. What’s that about?”

Consider this: Kobe Bryant is a three-time NBA Champ, a nine-time All-Star, an eight-time All-NBA Selection, a six-time All-Defensive Selection and two-time NBA All-Star Game MVP. But he’s never won an MVP award.

The obvious question is, Why not?

At some point over the last few years, the NBA’s MVP award seems to have become about rewarding the best player on the most exciting team. The name of the award is the Most Valuable Player award, which would seem to intimate, at least to me, that it should go to the player who is the most valuable to his team. You can’t really assign numbers to this—unless you’re John "Chimpy" Hollinger—which makes it so much fun to argue about.

I understand Nash winning the award two seasons ago. Last season, not so much.

Throughout this season, I think Kobe’s value is becoming more and more obvious every day, with every pass that bounces off of Kwame Brown’s hands, with every game Lamar Odom sits on the bench battling an injury, with every brain fart from Andrew Bynum, with every jump shot that Smush Parker clangs off the rim.

This year, to me, the most valuable player in the NBA is Kobe Bryant.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

I think it's obvious to everyone who knows the game who the MVP has been for some time now...Does it really matter though? They're not gunna give it to him. If he gets one or two when his career is all said and done, which he MIGHT, even that would be a complete disgrace. Sadly enough, it would actually surprise me if he EVER gets one...

[E. J. Rizo]

I think it's obvious to everyone who knows the game who the MVP has been for some time now...Does it really matter though? They're not gunna give it to him. If he gets one or two when his career is all said and done, which he MIGHT, even that would be a complete disgrace. Sadly enough, it would actually surprise me if he EVER gets one...

it will be his next year... if he keeps it up... if not this year..

[rik]

He should be the MVP this year. Just like he should have been last year. But of course they're no gonna give it to him.

[Don Jacob]

i think he deserves consideration but IMO Dirk is the MVP all laker bias aside

[wcsoldier]

the whole pb is that the MVP is given the best player on one of the top 3 records team in the league.. not to the MVP of the whole league... I think it's time they rename it ... anyway that's BS

[Don Jacob]

people have been saying that for years though, through out the jordan era as a matter of fact he was obviously the best player in the league for quite some time. but are you going to deny magic johnson even though his stats wern't as high as jordan's  but his team is more impressive. same with barkley, malone, bird , ect.


as much shit as i give kobe , i have no problem saying he's the best, however i'm in favor of how they give out the MVP award. i like kobe more than i dirk, but he's playing at such a high level right now and it's resulted in his team having probably the second or third best record in nba history.  IMO Kobe should've been MVP last year looking at the rubric of how MVP's are judged  kobe was that person. but, even though this year his performance has been better, you have dirk a few hundred miles away leading a team to hisory. To me that's the MVP. kobe can score 100 points next game and get the win but the fact of the matter is his team is in 6th place and have given up more than 100 points in close wins to mediocre teams.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

My friend Marcus is a huge fan of the New York Knicks. I am not sure why, exactly, although Marcus was born in Africa and raised in Europe, so maybe he just doesn’t know any better.

[wcsoldier]

^^^^ Kobe doesn't have the supporting cast Dirk has... replace Dirk by Kobe at Dallas and they will be champs without a single doubt.. when LAL will have less wins with Dirk...  a great player can involve player and make them better til a certain extent... as great as was Jordan Bulls didn't do shit in the playoffs til they have solid players and Pippen around him...

[Don Jacob]

that's unfair to say per se because the mavs have been built around dirk, you can't say add kobe and minus dirk dallas= champs.  by that logic the nuggets should be winning every game

[wcsoldier]

^^^^ that wasn't really what I wanted to say.. I mean the fact Dallas is a better team than us isn't based on the fact Dirk is better than Kobe... Cuban has added very good pieces around Dirk.. when Kobe doesn't have the pieces yet... it's obvious that when some players will have more Xperience, plus some solid players added in the mix, we'll be contenders.. one of the better teams and Kobe will have a shot to win the award.. what I mean is when I read sth like Dirk or Steve have led their teams to better records than Kobe team as a result they deserve the award more.. this doesn't make sense or just rename the award as I said before..

[Don Jacob]

but see that's the thing, no one is saying that dirk is the best player in the league. no one. they're just saying that he's the most valued player on the "best" team.  it's like the superbowl...the MVP is going to be the most valuable player on the winning team in THAT game(unless you're a cowboys ha ha  ) same with the NBA. It's not a "best player of the year" award necessarily

[GangstaBoogy]

I think the MVP should go to the best player in the league. In order for a player to be the best in the league then he obviously has to be the best player on his team...which would make him the most valuable player of the team. The Lakers won 45 games last year...take Kobe off the team and see how many games what win. But all that aside: if the Lakers had a winning record and Kobe had 62 points (in 3 quarters) and an 81 point outburst - you give him the MVP. I don't give a fuck about how many games the Mavs won or how well Nash did without Stoudemire. It's a shame that Nash has 2 MVPs while Kobe only has 2 and they're both from All-Star games.

[wcsoldier]

. It's not a "best player of the year" award necessarily

that's why this award makes no sense.... every word has a meaning and the interpretation of these words made by the medias is wrong... even if it's like that since the existence of this award ... but we can argue all day long, nothing ain't gonna change

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

but see that's the thing, no one is saying that dirk is the best player in the league. no one. they're just saying that he's the most valued player on the "best" team.  it's like the superbowl...the MVP is going to be the most valuable player on the winning team in THAT game(unless you're a cowboys ha ha  ) same with the NBA. It's not a "best player of the year" award necessarily

This argument really makes no sense. An MVP award is for the best player who does the most for his team...The best player on the best team is what the Finals MVP award is for...PeACe