Kobe Selected as 2008 MVP

[Brandon13]

Quote: Originally Posted by TarHeelsUNC

I don't think Kobe really deserves the MVP, but this year, the only other serious candidate is LBJ, and you can't really give the MVP award to the lead player on the #4 team in the East. Chris Paul really shouldn't win it because Scott won Coach of the Year. As for Garnett, it is questionable whether or not he is the MVP of his team. As much as I don't like Kobe, I think the voters got it right.

Why are winning Coach of the Year and MVP mutually exclusive?

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by BigTigLSU

So if Phil Jackson won coach of the year Jordan shouldnt have won MVP

Not unless Rodman won DpotY.

Rule of three. Come on homie, get on your game.

[BigTigLSU]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Soldier

Not unless Rodman won DpotY. Rule of three. Come on homie, get on your game.

LMAO

[DTX3]

Quote: Originally Posted by TarHeelsUNC

I don't think Kobe really deserves the MVP, but this year, the only other serious candidate is LBJ, and you can't really give the MVP award to the lead player on the #4 team in the East. Chris Paul really shouldn't win it because Scott won Coach of the Year. As for Garnett, it is questionable whether or not he is the MVP of his team. As much as I don't like Kobe, I think the voters got it right.

Sorry, but i stopped reading at LBJ.

[KDRE_OS]

Well tell me how close do you guys think this race waS?

[TarHeelsUNC]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flyboy

... Um, what the hell?

Maybe it's just my opinion, but I don't see how a coach can win Coach of the Year, even though they have the best player in the league. To me, the COY award represents doing more with less. You don't know how much I would rather see CP3 win than Kobe, but I think the voters got it right. Maybe CP3 does really deserve it, but maybe the COY award was wrong. They do have 2 All Stars, and a lineup with no glaring weaknesses. Then again, half of the Western Conference is the same way.

Again, just my opinion. Maybe in a year where one team dominates, the same team deserves both, but only Boston could be considered dominant even by stretching the definition.

[KDRE_OS]

Being that this was an MVP thread, how close do you think it was

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by KDRE_OS

Being that this was an MVP thread, how close do you think it was

I don't think it'll be Shaq or KG winning, but I don't think the voting will be as close as the race should have been.

[KDRE_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Soldier

I don't think it'll be Shaq or KG winning, but I don't think the voting will be as close as the race should have been.

Its nowhere near as close which IMO shows alot of the lifetime achievement talk spilled into the voting.

[Brandon13]

If I remember right from seeing it on the screen Kobe got 82 first place votes, Paul received 28, Garnett received 15, and LeBron received 1.