Comments on: Garnett Third in MVP Voting http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/garnett-third-in-mvp-voting/ People don't think it be like it is, but it do. Sun, 20 May 2012 07:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Cliffy http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/garnett-third-in-mvp-voting/#comment-1300 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:35:04 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/garnett-third-in-mvp-voting/#comment-1300 Rape a girl and then insist he didn't, it was "only" adultery - and then buy his wife a $4 million ring to keep her around (though I still don't understand how her dignity is worth half of Kobe's hundreds of millions... cuz she would've gotten the other half - with her dignity - in a divorce). And then when the victim drops the case, Kobe lays low a bit... until deciding that he needs to be traded cuz with Shaq not around (which Kobe seemingly wanted, so he could be "The Man"), the Lakers weren't as good a team (um... duh). Then Kupchak fleeces old friend Chris Wallace to get Gasol next to Kobe, and we're told that Kobe is really a solid team guy. Like Garnett, he's the best player on a very good team. Like Garnett, his team won its conference - and many insist the Western Conference is the tougher conference (although it should be noted Garnett's Celtics managed to go 25-5 against the "superior" conference, the West, this season). Unlike Garnett, he's among the league leaders in points (#2 behind Lebron). Plus he hasn't won it yet. Chris Paul actually has a more similar argument to Garnett - the old "where would his team be without him? That's what makes him so valuable" argument - but Paul did lead the league in assists. Ironically, Paul put up better individual numbers and his team did better collectively than Nash in either of the two years that Nash won the MVP award... fwiw. I personally think Garnett earned it - for spearheading the defensive and overall team effort that created the single greatest one-season turnaround in NBA history, and led the Celtics to the best record in the entire NBA (including an impressive out-of-conference record, as noted above).... but I understand why he didn't win it. Wrt Kobe, Paul and Garnett, I can understand an argument for those three in any order for MVP - and Lebron is not too shabby a choice at #4, btw (although those in the know insist he doesn't play defense... at least, yet). Rape a girl and then insist he didn’t, it was “only” adultery - and then buy his wife a $4 million ring to keep her around (though I still don’t understand how her dignity is worth half of Kobe’s hundreds of millions… cuz she would’ve gotten the other half - with her dignity - in a divorce). And then when the victim drops the case, Kobe lays low a bit… until deciding that he needs to be traded cuz with Shaq not around (which Kobe seemingly wanted, so he could be “The Man”), the Lakers weren’t as good a team (um… duh). Then Kupchak fleeces old friend Chris Wallace to get Gasol next to Kobe, and we’re told that Kobe is really a solid team guy.

Like Garnett, he’s the best player on a very good team. Like Garnett, his team won its conference - and many insist the Western Conference is the tougher conference (although it should be noted Garnett’s Celtics managed to go 25-5 against the “superior” conference, the West, this season). Unlike Garnett, he’s among the league leaders in points (#2 behind Lebron). Plus he hasn’t won it yet.

Chris Paul actually has a more similar argument to Garnett - the old “where would his team be without him? That’s what makes him so valuable” argument - but Paul did lead the league in assists. Ironically, Paul put up better individual numbers and his team did better collectively than Nash in either of the two years that Nash won the MVP award… fwiw.

I personally think Garnett earned it - for spearheading the defensive and overall team effort that created the single greatest one-season turnaround in NBA history, and led the Celtics to the best record in the entire NBA (including an impressive out-of-conference record, as noted above)…. but I understand why he didn’t win it.

Wrt Kobe, Paul and Garnett, I can understand an argument for those three in any order for MVP - and Lebron is not too shabby a choice at #4, btw (although those in the know insist he doesn’t play defense… at least, yet).

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