[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

.......you just explained WHY the award is flawed, its a opinion of who is the mvp to his respective team......impossible to say. what is clear, is that kobe is the best all around player in basketball......has been for 5 straight years, lebron is nipping at his heals. when they gave the awards to bark and karl over m.j. that was a laugh......

I think there should be two awards. One for player of the year and one for most valuable to his team. I don't think though that it's clear that Bryant is the best player in the game. I go with James for that honor. James is so unselfish that people forget just how dominant he can be offensively if he chose to be. If he wanted to, I have little doubt that James could be a guy that goes for over 36 and 10 boards a night. His free-throw shooting hurt him and he's not as good an outside shooter as Bryant is but his ability to get to the basket is as good as if not better than Bryant. I think his ability to finish at the basket is better. He's much better at reading a defense and making the right play in any situation than Bryant is. That play in the last game against Washington was the perfect illustration of what kind of player he is. Last year against Detroit, he had the same situation and made a pass then too and when the shot was missed, he was criticized. People said that as the superstar, he needs to be the one taking the shot and not deferring to anyone. But that's not who he is. He's going to make the right play and sometimes, that's making the pass to the wide open guy.

It's tight as vagina in a convent but I'd go with James over Bryant.