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DEL.ICIO.USKobe or LeBron?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Terence Moore
My pick for the NBA’s most valuable player? Tough one. LeBron James should win, but Kobe Bryant will.
All of that flashy scoring by Bryant will blind the senses of the voters. In addition to remembering that he’s just the third player in league history to average at least 35 points per game, they’ll remember his 81-point game, along with the slew of other times where he managed 50 or more.
But here’s my idea of the MVP of a given league: The guy whose winning team crashes the most when that guy is removed from the lineup.
That guy is James. Without him, the Cleveland Cavaliers return to their numerous years as the Cadavers.
Come to think of it, the Lakers without Bryant are dead, too. And he does something else that MVPs do, and that is he makes others around him better (see Kwame Brown, suddenly a force out of nowhere after years as a farce).
OK. I’ll go with Kobe.
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