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Lakers' Kobe Bryant clear leader for NBA MVP award -
But Bryant has been terrific and deserving, surpassing career averages in field goal and three-point shooting, steals, assists and rebounds. He's taking fewer shots than at any time in his previous six seasons but is second in the league in scoring (to James), averaging 28.2 points per game. His rebounding (6.0) is his best in five years (6.9 in 2002-03), his field-goal shooting (46 percent) ...
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Fan Voice: Recent Topics in The Court Reporters: The NBA.com Blog — ... , 2008 ) and his time to be named MVP has come. Gasol's arrival, however, has made the Lakers a better and deeper team. It's this team success that will more than likely earn Bryant his first MVP. Kobe haters (Or is it haterz? Cool kids, fill me in.) predictably hate the thought of Mr. Bryant meeting Mr. Podoloff in May before a Lakers playoff game at STAPLES. With Kobe, no one fence sits. They'll point out how Pau has made the Lakers better and that Kobe needed help to bring the Lakers back to early turn-of-the-century prominence. They'll point out that players like ...

Runaway Train…
WaitingForNextYear — ... Kobe Bryant the league’s clear-cut MVP . I bet LeBron didn’t notice. I bet nobody told him all over the radio waves talking heads were saying Kobe had pulled ahead of him. I’m sure ...

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