is not going to give a guy the MVP by itself.

He is going to have to get that first number up a little bit I would think.

top 10? no.

Brandon needs to be more efficient with his shots.

1. LeBron James
2. Chris Paul
3. Kobe Bryant
4. Chris Bosh
5. Tim Duncan
6. Dwight Howard
7. Joe Johnson
8. Dwyane Wade
9. Amare Stoudemire
10. Danny Granger

Brandon Roy doesn’t even come close to cracking that list.

B-Roy is not top ten in one category, unless there is something I have missed.

I’m being too much of a homer by voting yes. You are asking is he a top ten Candidate, Sure. I think he easily deserves to be a candidate given his execution and value to the team thus far. If you’d of asked IS he the mvp of the N.B.A. that would be different.

Some people are saying that he’s not statistically close to the other guys, but I don’t think that matters. This team just wouldn’t work without him.

if you’re asking me

So then I pondered other deserving player.

Wade
Paul Pierce
Garnet
Lebron
Duncan
D. Howard
Kobe
Chris Paul

hmmm…

Y. Ming if he picked up his game. He was tearing it up a few years ago.
Steve nash if he was able to pull out some nice wins.
Dirk N. if he had a monster season.

Those are some names.

Now, if I could only have one…

Kobe
Wade
Lebron
C. Paul
Garnett.

Those are my top five. And yeah, that order. People have a short memory, but I saw Wade will games to wins. That’s something Jordan did, something kobe can sometimes do, and something Wade did. I don’t really see that kind of mental play that much in the NBA. Not at that level. Wade is a solid two or three in my book. Lebron kept faltering against the Celtics. It’s early in the season, so right now I’m looking at last year AND the Olympics (when wade was finally healthy again).

So does Roy make the bottom five?

Duncan
Paul Pierce/Roy/Nash…

I’m actually not a fan of Howard regardless of stats.

Yeah. He does belong in the top ten conversation. I may have missed people, but if he’s not top ten, he’s darn close. The problem is that the top five, in my opinion, are leaps and bounds above the bottom five.

I think there’s 3 tiers right now. The top 3 (CP3, Bron, Kobe), the next 5, and then 5 more behind them. I’d put Roy in the third tier, so top 13 for sure, possibly top 10.

can put Brandon Roy at No. 9, then I don’t think it would be too homerish to include Roy in your voting.

Are you asking if we think Brandon Roy’s performance to date is enough to earn him MVP votes from the people who do the voting, or are you asking if we think his performance is MVP caliber. The last being conditioned by our trying to answer impartially.

I would say a borderline yes to the first. As Casey points out, at least one person has him in their top ten (don’t know if Kahn has a MVP ballot). Brandon winning RoY and an All-Star berth in his first two seasons gives him a certain level of exposure and credibility, which helps when going up against the NBA’s most hyped super stars. Still, his numbers don’t blow one away. I still think that’s what a lot of the voters primarily go by.

As to the second, I’d say a qualified yes. Yes because as Ben has pointed out, Portland’s 6-4 record is pretty impressive considering the schedule to date and would not be that good without Brandon. And as already pointed out, no matter how off he might be during a game or how much he’s deferred to his teammates, come crunch time, it is Roy who takes over. To me the definition of MVP is exactly the sort of leadership plus the willingness to put the team on his back that Roy exhibits night in and out. Qualified because Roy is the source of an irrepressable sense of excitement, exhileration and giddiness for me. Every time I what him play I can’t help thinking how lucky we are to have him as a Blazer. The feeling he creates is that you could put him on the floor with a team from the Holy Sisters of the Poor (average age 57) and that team would still be respectable. Therefore I probably should be disqualified from assessing his MVP candidacy.

Chris Paul
Dwight Howard
Steve Nash
Joe Johnson
Kobe Bryant
Lebron James
Brandon Roy

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1) LBJ
2) DWade
3) CP3
4) Boozer
5) Dwight
6) Timmay
7) Amare
8) Joe Johnson
9) Devin Harris
10) KB24
11) Bosh
12) Pierce
13) Roy

Tony Parker would be ahead of Roy if not for the injury. I expect Garnett and perhaps a few others to finish ahead of Roy on my eventual list, while I expect Harris and Joe to drop below him. This poll question is not ridiculous— its homeristic to answer yes, but its not unreasonable to ask the question IMO.

I’m sure not one of you will be chanting “MVP” when Roy steps on the court. You weren’t silly enough to do that last season…were you?

“MVP of A Successful Team”. If the award was specifically handed out to the player who meant the most to his team and organization – Kobe Bryant would have won it the last six seasons or more!

I for one would like the NBA to clearly define what this award means.

He would be approaching the bottom of the top 10…..more like 12 or so. But that’s through the first 10 games. I fully expect this team to explode (in a GOOD way) early in 2009 as the Blazers become more comfortable with each other adn miscommunication becomes less of an issue. The Blazers have 3 rookies in the regular rotation which has kept the team from firing on all cylinders. Once that happens, win-loss record will improve, as will Roy’s overall level of play.

By the end of the season I have no reason to believe Brandon Roy wlil not be in the top 10 players in MVP balloting.

1)lebron
2)kobe
3)cp3
4)Dwayne Wade
5)dwight howard
6) paul pierce
7)joe johnson
8) Steve Nash
9)Tracy Mcgrady
10)Tony Parker

and theres a few others who id say would make it over b roy.

Roys just not the MVP type.