Make your case...MVP

Taking everything in here is how the top 5 will be voted by the voters.

note: the number behind the player name is the order I would vote them in. I will also add I have a problem with the idea of giving the award to the player with the best stats on the best team.

1. Dirk Nowitzki - 4
In my opinion Dirk winning the MVP is a travesty of biblical proportions (sarcasm), but they way the award has gone for several years, it seems the voters love to vote for the best player who has the reputation as being superstar with the best stats on the team with the best record (notice I didn't say best team). Dirk has the team record and the stats and name recognition to back up this award on paper. However, in my opinion he isn't an MVP calibur player, but the award has become a joke due to the politics involved in the voting.

2. Steve Nash - 3
Steve Nash has done more for this team this year due to necessity then he did last year when he won the MVP. However, Nash already winning is the problem, the voters are not willing to concede that Nash will be mentioned among the likes of Bob Pettit, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Tim Duncan. Plus right or wrong, many consider Nash to simply be the driver behind a good car in D'Antonio's system.

3. Kobe Bryant - 2
The consensus best player in the league, Kobe will finish third out of respect for what he has done this season and for what he has accomplished throughout his career. Kobe has the name, superstar reputation, but doesn't have the team record. In my opinion if his team finished with atleast 45-50 wins the award should be his even if his team didn't have the best record because his name recognition is so powerful. Also, Kobe needs an MVP award to atleast be considered among the top players ever to play the game and it would go along way in saying he is great without Shaq as a well.

4. LeBron James - 1
LeBron James has everything the voters look for in an MVP, a superstar reputation, stats, and a decent team record. However, LeBron will be a victim of age discrimination and will not win the award. The voters will excuse this by saying he is only 21 and has many, many years to win the award.....just not right now, plus they will add his troubles this year with closing out games.


5a. Dwayne Wade - 5
As with LeBron James, Wade has the criteria for an MVP, but he has two major strikes against him, one is the same age discrimination and second is playing with Shaq. Some voters would like to conjecture that Shaq is still the dominant player he was in LA, therefore they will rationalize that Wade benefits from this, which he does, but not at a great rate. Wade's impact is that of an MVP.

5b. Chauncy Billups - 6
Once considered the favorite Chauncy Billups lost this award, due to his teams lack of consistency (as compared to how they started) since the all-star game. The Pistons seem to be coasting until the playoffs start and you can tell in their play. Billups has 2/3 criteria for the award.....he is missing the superstar status, however if his team was still on pace to for 72 wins he probably would be in the top 2 in voting.

It's gotta be Dirk Nowitzki.

Although his all-around numbers aren't as impressive as last season, they're not far off and he's improved all of his shooting percentages. He's without a doubt been the leader on his team for the last few seasons and is leading them to one of the best records in the league this season. No one even considered any of his teammates as all-stars, yet they're one of the best teams in the league. The same thing can't be said for other all-star candidates with good records because they all have one or more all-star teammates.

Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and LeBron James are the only outstanding players that I can think of in a similar position as Dirk. If their teams were performing as well as the Mavs, Spurs, or Pistons, I'd consider them to win MVP. But the way things have gone, Dirk Nowitzki has to be this season's MVP.

MVP = "Most Valuable Player"
Valuable = being of great importance or use or service

It's not necessary for Dirk to avg 25-10-5-2-2 while shooting 50%, 40% and 90% in order be considered the player who's been the most instrumental in leading his team to an excellent season.

The only real criteria for MVP should be being the best player on one of the best teams. This season, it should easily go to Dirk Nowitzki.

Pioneer10 said:

Danny Ferry would give his first born for Smush Parker that's how bad the PG spot has been for the Cavaliers.

OBTW Eric Snow AND D. Jones have lower PER numbers than Sasha Vujacic - lol that is pathetic

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At the start of this season, would you really take the combo PGs of Smush Parker and Sasha over Snow and Damon? Smush is a traveller, got cut by a couple of NBA teams on the course of his career, played in Europe, and NBDL. And who the hell is Sasha Vujacic really? I always thought he has an internship at the Lakers til this season. Snow on the other hand is a proven veteran with steady hands at PG. Damon is a PG who hits 43.2% of his 3-pointers last season, with a fine assist-to-turnover ratio.

Smush and Sasha really aren't the better combo, they are put in a system that suits them. Jones was signed by the Cavs on the basis of the need of good 3-point shooters to surround Lebron and Z. But a team's system does matter to a player's performance, especially to these kind of players, role players. We know can see how Shaq and the Miami system does to Jones, and take notice that the Cavs and Lebron with his whooping 7 assists per game does not fit as well with Jones.

I can go on and on about other Lakers such as Mihm, I mean who is Mihm before he was made a Laker? You see how desperate the Lakers were last season making Mihm their starting center? But hey, it turned out as a career year for him. The Lakers started this season with so much uncertainties.

NOW people talk how Parker is a legitimate NBA starting PG, Mihm a solid center, Brown a solid contributor, and how the Lakers as a team have really come through. But you can't tell me that at the start of the season you would replace all these Cavs with their Lakers counterparts who at the beginning of the season did not even make a lot of experts and analysts play-off list right? Or are you the great Nostradamus who can see the future?

Anyways my MVP pick is either Nash or Kobe. Nash shows that he is the ONE that matters in the SUNS by far, and the absence of Amare doesn't seem to bother the SUNS that bad. Well and Kobe has taken the Lakers above most people pre-season's expectations.