LBJ showed great motivation during the 2008-09 season.
In what is predicted to be the first of many – LeBron James has been named MVP for the 2008-2009 season.
There shouldn’t be a whole lot of argument this year – particularly given how well the Cleveland Cavaliers played during the regular season.
LeBron averaged 28.4 ppg, 7.6 rpg and 7.2 apg this year. His Cavs finished the regular season with a league-best 66-16 record.
Although James credentials cannot be argued, he did have stiff competition for this award – especially from the likes of last year’s MVP, Kobe Bryant, and the 2006 NBA Finals MVP, Dwayne Wade.
How do you feel about the MVP selection?
- They got it right - LBJ all the way!!! (50%, 3 Votes)
- D-Wade got robbed!!! (33%, 2 Votes)
- We should have seen a repeat by Kobe (17%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 6
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So Lebron James won the award. His TEAM had the best regular season record. I know that team record is pretty much the criteria for who takes the award and even who makes the all-star team. I honestly don’t like it, but I guess it’s a formula for picking the winner.
I’m not a big Kobe fan, (though I do respect what he does on the court) but suppose Andrew Bynum didn’t get hurt? The Lakers ended up 65-17 and they lost Bynum for a good chunk of the regular season. That’s 1.0 game back from the Cavs record. Kobe hit unbelievable shot after shot. He pretty much makes it look routine and people take that for granted. If you’re in the final seconds of the game, down 1, who would you rather have? So if the Lakers had a better record than the Cavs by one game, would the MVP results have been different?
In terms of who I felt should have gotten the MVP.. If you take away record and look at what each MVP candidate meant to their team and the level that they played at, you have to give it to D Wade. The Miami Heat without him are garbage. You take Lebron or Kobe off of their teams, and they can still be competitve. They have that much talent around them. I wouldn’t say elite, but each team would be deep enough to have a chance at winning every night. Haslem, Chalmers, Moon, O’neal.. come on. Look at their bench, Joel Anthony, Diawara, Quinn, Wright, Cook and Beasley(R). Wade put that team on his back. He brought it every night. Teams knew that, came up with game plans to shut him down, and still couldn’t do it. He made a bad team pretty good. Got them the 5th seed in the playoffs. You could see how much of an advantage Atlanta had in terms of quality players and Wade’s Heat still pushed them to seven games. There are really good players on really bad teams with horrible records. Wade is a superstar played at such a high level, he wouldn’t let his really bad team lose.
The MVP should go to the best player in the league. If you go with TEAM record, then I guess Bron bron is deserving of it. Mo Williams, Big Z, B Wallace, Delonte, Sideshow Bob, Boobie Gibson, Pavlovic, Joe Smith, Wally World that’s a pretty nice surrounding cast isn’t it? (well maybe not Wally) I still feel Mr. Fall down seven times stand up eight got robbed..
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I thought D-Wade deserved it by the thinnest of margins – - but I knew LeBron would get it.
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