During Tuesday's telecast, three members of ESPN's NBA Coast to Coast crew offered their takes on this year's exciting MVP race. All of them unhesitatingly chose Kobe Bryant as MVP. Tim Legler said that Bryant has no weaknesses offensively and that on a nightly basis he guards the opponent's toughest player. Legler added that it is "unfathomable" that Bryant has not yet won an MVP but he ...

Not long into “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” is, at least for me, arguably the most disappointing scene in all of cinema. If you’re any sort of a fan of Star Wars — or at least, the original three Star Wars films — you know exactly the scene I’m speaking of. In it, the Force is explained. The [...]

Poor Lebron, he gets no respect Watching hours and hours of NBA basketball the last two months, I realized one thing: Lebron James is underrated. How, you may ask, is one of the best, most heralded phenoms in the history of sports underrated. The reason: seemingly, everyone is in love with Kobe Bryant ( this son of a bitch at Yahoo! wrote a column today basically shitting on my entire ...

As the season enters the stretch, the MVP race has boiled down to Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Kevin Garnett.  All are worthy, and I won't be upset over any of them winning the prize.  I fully expect it to be LeBron or Kobe, but it's still pretty amazing that Paul, in his third year in the league, has already entered the discussion. Anyways, I was poking at various ...

Today, on the always entertaining Ball Don't Lie at Yahoo! (don't forget the ! or they'll come burn your house down), Kelly Dwyer officially ticked off a lot of Lakers Blog readers. Why? He believes the MVP for the '07-'08 season should be LeBron James, not Kobe Bryant. I think he's wrong, and I also think that assuming he stays healthy and the Lakers don't suffer some sort of cosmic collapse- ...

Feel free to use this space to discuss what will almost certainly be the Knicks’ 42nd loss of the season (Really? Malik Rose is going to start over David Lee? Really?). Or, if you prefer, you can use it discuss whether Lebron James will be robbed of the MVP this season.

by Marcel Mutoni Ever since Kevin Garnett went down with an injury (and the Celtics continued to win without him), the MVP race he once led commandingly has turned into a competition between two men: LeBron James and Kobe Bryant - with the latter holding the edge. The Boston media, however, would like to remind you that their guy is pretty good , too. If you want to give the MVP to ...

by HP , Hardwood Paroxysm Here's what you missed over the weekend in the NBA... That's Your MVP, Folks.: Kobe had 52, the Lakers shot 25 more free throws, and the Mavs still found a way to drive it to overtime. Which, of course, inevitably ended when Dirk Nowitski, after a fantastic fourth quarter and beginning of overtime, AIRBALLED a game-tying three pointer at the buzzer. That's the ...

It was a perfect Sunday for David Stern as his two marquee stars put on a show. Lebron, with an improved supporting cast but nowhere near Kobe's, carried the Cavs with 23 first half points and 6 straight down the stretch with the game on the line. Two of those point came on one of the biggest dunks of the season. See below. Kobe followed this up with a 52 point explosion , ...

LeBron James looked very much like the best player in the NBA as he put up 37 points, six rebounds and six assists in Cleveland's 95-86 win over Chicago --and then Kobe Bryant took the court in L.A. and showed once again why he should finally capture his first MVP, scoring 52 points--including 30 in the fourth quarter and overtime--as his L.A. Lakers defeated the Dallas Mavericks 108-104 in ...

Josh Q. Public: I got so much trouble on my mind. I refuse to lose. Here’s your ticket. Hear the drummer get wicked. -Public Enemy Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Just a quick one today. A run and stick one today. A makes me sick one today. Kobe Bryant for MVP makes me sick. LeBron James for MVP makes me sick. The Most Valuable Player in the ...

They beat up on the hapless Miami Heat last night to no one's surprise. They've won 10 in a row, and if it wasn't for LeBron James, Kobe Bryant would be the runaway favorite for league MVP. We've gotten so used to the Lakers being fairly middlin' the last several seasons, that it almost seems to beg the question: Can the Lakers really win the NBA championship? Is Pau Gasol really that much ...