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  • Posted on: Tue, 04/19/2011 - 1:48am #28118
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    Boomshakalaka
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    Is it possible to be the MVP of the league but not the best player in the league?? You would think that the statements; Most Valuable Player in the NBA and Best Player in the NBA are interchangable but they are not. Does winning the MVP automatically make you the best player in the league? If you are the best player in the league but not the MVP is that right? and does the idea of “Best player on the Best team” automatically put you in the running for MVP?

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  • Posted on: Tue, 04/19/2011 - 2:07am #523095
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    This year D-Rose is definitely the MVP of the league. I am not sure if he is the best player though. I like his game and I like what he does for his team but if you had to draft a team for next season ONLY I doubt many people would take Rose with the #1 Overall pick. IMO Dwight, Wade, Lebron, Kobe, Durant are some of the names that would be picked before him

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  • Posted on: Tue, 04/19/2011 - 2:33am #523098
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    This is obvious, if it were just best player you’d have Kobe winning it almost every time, because in his prime we knew he was the best. But it’s a matter of what you do with that talent, it’s the best performing player in the league who contributes the most to his teams victories, which have to be substantially high.

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  • Posted on: Tue, 04/19/2011 - 4:53am #523119
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    Happens more often than not. I do not know if it should as much as it does, I am the same person who believes Michael Jordan more than likely should have won 10 MVP’s (I have a list of who I feel deserved them, not saying you have to agree with it, but it is just my opinion), but it happens and all in all most are warranted. It really an award that encompasses a number of aspects, statistics, team record and just overall consistency of performance. It definitely helps if you stand out as one of the best players that year, but I do not think winning the MVP necessarily means you are the best player that year. As a matter of fact, I will break down who the best players were since 1986 (This was after Michael’s 63 point performance in Boston):

    end of 1986-end of 93: Michael Jordan (Charles won ’93 MVP)

    1993-95: Hakeem Olajuwon (David Robinson won ’95 MVP)

    1996-end of 98: Michael Jordan (Karl Malone won ’97 MVP)

    1998-end of 2001: Shaquille O’Neal (won the 2000 MVP, rest went to Karl Malone, Allen Iverson and Tim Duncan)

    2001-end of 2003: Tim Duncan (KG won the 2004 MVP, which I feel he definitely deserved)

    2004-2009: Kobe Bryant (We all know he has only won one MVP, which is just awful)

    2010- : LeBron James

     

    That is my breakdown, things could have changed in between, I am sure people will be freaking out that I did not say Allen Iverson or Tracy McGrady, but, tough. Still, I think the MVP encompasses a number of factors, and it comes down to the best performance of the season all things taken into consideration. What those things are can sometimes be up for discussion. Still, I feel like those have been the guys who have been the leagues top players for the periods I listed, and they were not always MVP during those periods, Shaq and Kobe of course only winning 2 MVP’s between them during the periods where they were the premier player in the league.

     

     

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