Kobe Bryant or LeBron James: Toss-Up At MVP

Stop the foolishness! The MVP award of the 2008-09 season will go to either Kobe Bryant or LeBron James. If you want you can make arguments for whomever your heart desires, but when it's all said and done, it will go to either one of those two. No one else has a shot. Nope, not one, not even a little bit. First of all, in order to win the MVP award your team must be among the top records in the NBA. If you look at just the last twenty MVP winners, you will see that ten of them came from the team with the best record in the league, eight of them came from the second-best, and only two of them came from third. And those two players are Kobe Bryant last season and Steve Nash from the 2005-06 season. So only recently has the player from the third best team has had a shot at MVP. I’ll repeat for emphasize for those of you who don’t get it: your team must win games ! Therefore, if your team isn’t winning games, you will not win MVP. I don’t care if you score 81 ... (link)