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Kobe Bryant's MVP is not a personable achievement -- -

Lakers Library found this 5/8/2008 on newsday.com

The arena was nearly full before the tipoff, unusual for fans who are fashionably and famously late, and it was buzzing when he received the game's highest individual award. As Kobe Bryant raised the trophy in the air, the chants of "MVP" were legitimate and also appropriate, if only because the P stands for Player. Not "person." The fans cheered and serenaded a person who, right around this ...