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So Kobe Bryant is the NBA's most valuable player. And the race — the best MVP race in years, or even decades, we though — wasn't even that close. The guys he beat all had a case — it's just that the Los Angeles Lakers star has been building one for a decade. Kevin Garnett transformed Boston's basketball culture, but he never had the offensive numbers to match Bryant. Cleveland's LeBron James ...
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Published 5/7/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... ballroom." John Smallwood of the Philadelphia Daily News: "Few would disagree that Bryant had MVP-caliber talent. Still, there was so much baggage -- some he checked in himself and some heaped on him -- to honestly believe he would join the ranks of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Julius Erving and be honored as the greatest player in the game." Rob Peterson of NBA.com "This season, Kobe won MVP because of his bite, not his bark." Bruce Arthur of the National Post: "Kobe wasn't necessarily ...
