Well, gulp... he finally won it [MVP award]

by damir on May 2, 2008 7:12 PM PDT

It took 12 seasons, but Kobe Bryant has finally been selected the NBA's most valuable player, The Times has learned.

Sources familiar with the outcome who were not authorized to speak publicly about the award until the official announcement from the league said Commissioner David Stern will be in Los Angeles next week to present the trophy to Bryant.

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Le sigh...

I guess, he deserved it? I don't know. Maybe I am just a bitter Blazers fan that would rather not see him win anything.

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I KNOW I'm a bitter Blazer fan who

doesn’t want him to win anything

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss" Robert A. Heinlein

by 92wastheyear on May 2, 2008 7:20 PM PDT reply actions

I don't know if he deserved it this year...

... but he certainly is too good a player not to have won one at some point.

I have no problem with this at all. I hate the Lakers but greatness must be acknowledged.

Boomshakalaka

by jksnake99 on May 2, 2008 7:21 PM PDT reply actions

And there's a reason I'm GLAD he finally won it.

Part of the reason he won it was the he’s-never-won-it-before thing,
that he won it for the aggregate worth f his career so far.

You only get that going for you once.
So now that he’s gotten it, he’ll never have that particular dynamic working for him again.
Get this “honor his career to date” MVP outta the way; we knew it was coming.

From now on, he can FINALLY be judged for JUST THE SEASON AT HAND, like Paul and LeBron and KG were.
They didn’t get the career-aggregate factor working for them (Paul and LBJ too young, KG won it already).
From here on in, Kubby will ne held to the same standard in voting that KG and Iverson have been.

Good.

Blazers have a five-on-three...and they pull it back and wait for help.

by QualityPie on May 3, 2008 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Kobe is sexy

l love him.

by Sabonis4Ever on May 2, 2008 7:37 PM PDT reply actions

Oh no. We need to do an intervention here.

"We comin along." Travis Outlaw

by annthefan on May 2, 2008 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions

We then

Why don’t you marry him?

Signatures? We ain't got no signatures. We don't need no signatures! I don't have to show you any stinkin' signatures!

by tominhawaii on May 2, 2008 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions

Not a bad idea

At least you’d get a $ 4 Million diamond out of the deal when you found out he was cheating on you.

Can I buy you a fish sandwich?

by silkybrown on May 3, 2008 1:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Nice

Signatures? We ain't got no signatures. We don't need no signatures! I don't have to show you any stinkin' signatures!

by tominhawaii on May 3, 2008 1:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Is it still technically "cheating" if the other girl said "no"?

i think there’s another word for that

Blazers have a five-on-three...and they pull it back and wait for help.

by QualityPie on May 3, 2008 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions

Hmmmm. I sort of agreed with Mr. inHawaii to let the Klooby question rest but I can't help myself.

His wife probably says no too. What is that called?

"We comin along." Travis Outlaw

by annthefan on May 3, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions

Matrimony

Signatures? We ain't got no signatures. We don't need no signatures! I don't have to show you any stinkin' signatures!

by tominhawaii on May 3, 2008 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Haha! Ugh.

"We comin along." Travis Outlaw

by annthefan on May 3, 2008 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Geez.

I hate this “Lifetime Achievement Award” nonsense.

Trade Freeland!

by rockingharder on May 2, 2008 7:46 PM PDT reply actions

Two Words

Chris Paul

I used to play sports, then I realized you can buy trophies, now I'm good at everything, even checkers - Demetri Martin

by Zaron5551 on May 2, 2008 7:59 PM PDT reply actions

kobe

im happy for him

Oden...Aldridge...Roy.....THE REAL BIG THREE
Watch my brandon roy vid http://youtube.com/watch?v=RC3Byp4ID1E

by CroRupt on May 2, 2008 8:09 PM PDT reply actions

totally well deserved

Kobe is nothing but a Class Act. A Class Act.

Heck yeah I’m happy for him. The guy deserved it three or four years ago and should have won at least two MVP awards by now. Gotta admit he’s THE player of his generation. The dude’s main problem was always his ego but if you look at him the past three years you can see that he’s got that almost under control. (But really, who knows?) He’s a consummate athlete. Absolutely no question about it. To dominate the league for ten plus years and have more points scored in fewer years than anybody. That is simply phenomenal. He is a supremely gifted athlete. And self-disciplined to a fault. Does anybody know how much sacrifice is required to whittle one’s body into that sort of physical condition?

Where have all the flowers gone?

by bilingual octopus on May 2, 2008 8:55 PM PDT reply actions

A class Act?

One that cried for the first half of the season, demanding a trade because he thought he didn’t have any good teammates and threw Andrew Bynum under a bus?

by joof on May 2, 2008 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions

I think b. octopus forgot his sarcasm font, heretofore known as SF.

"We comin along." Travis Outlaw

by annthefan on May 2, 2008 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions

So is Travis Outlaw a sarcasm font?

or a SF? Too much confusion I think.

I vote for FR as the shorthand for “sarcasm font”. It is taken fron the latin “Fontus Rediculitus”. No confusion for that one

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss" Robert A. Heinlein

by 92wastheyear on May 3, 2008 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions

I don't got the numbers in front of me

But he scored more than Jordan in the same amount of time? I doubt that, because it wasn’t till his 3rd year Kobe was scoring 20ppg and Jordan had years of 30+, including one year of 37 a game. If you’re going by AGE, then I guess Kobe prolly reached scoring milestones before others, yeah—though Lebron will shatter those.

I don’t think Bilingual is being sarcastic, and I don’t mind that; I understand someone liking Kobe. He’s an amazing player. I just think Lebron and Chris Paul were better this season, and part of Kobe’s new unselfishness is caused by his knee still hurting. He just doesn’t look as good as years past. Plus, actual NBA players don’t even like him so that’s gotta say sumthin’.

Kobe getting this is based off of never winning it before. If he had won 2 or 3 years ago, one of the Nash years, there’s no way he’d win this year. That tells ya it wasn’t based on his on the court performance this season, and mostly because he had a good year on a much better team after never having won it before. The voting often includes some silly political thing like that, or becomes easily swayed by the stories of the day. Jordan deserved it when Barkeley won, and Karl Poop pants Malone. They won it because they didn’t get a chance to before, they were hot stories at the time, and people got tired voting for Jordan.

Everyone assumes Lebron will win one sometime, so they don’t vote for him. That’s silly.

Kobe is a MVP, but others deserved it more this year.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on May 3, 2008 12:18 AM PDT up reply actions

Disagree on one front

Lebron was not the better player this year.

I’m really starting to get irked by him:

Still a crappy freethrow shooter, horrible shooting outside of 15-feet, no defensive presence, and no post-game. He’s been in the league 5 seasons and has not improved on any of those attributes of his game.

I just hope for his sake that he realizes he cannot rely on his superior physical ability to continue being dominant when he’s older, and that he actually adds some damn fundamentals to his game already.

Such a superior talent should have the drive to improve year in and year out.

ROTUNDITYDOTNET

by damir on May 3, 2008 2:13 AM PDT up reply actions

At least

He doesn’t coast as much as he used to. I think he might need to be challenged more; the game is easy for him, he’s on an un-inspiring team and can waltz his way into the playoffs, he’s still young and athletic and likely doesn’t have a sense of NBA mortality that would pressure him to get a jump shot (ala Jordan).

He does suck at FTs, but not Shaq bad or sumthin. Low 70s, right? He can get hot from the outside but his release is all inconsistent and he tends to fade, making it harder to be accurate. I watched every game of the Olympic qualifiers thingy last summer and he shot the ball GREAT, and he was shooting straight up and down with consistent release and form. That tells me he can do it (we know he can get hot and hit five 3’s in a row and stuff), but he needs to work on doing it every time.

For our sake, I hope he doesn’t get a jump shot. He’s already unstoppable.

Yeah, he’s just so much bigger and stronger and uses that to his advantage and it allows him to not have all the traditional basketball fundamentals most players got. He’s still puts up amazing numbers, carries a BAD team to a winning record, and tends to do it all on the court. He’s a monster, and I think he and Chris Paul were more important for their teams because of the supporting cast and how they just do EVERYTHING.

You’re 100% right though, Lebron could be even better. He’s crazy talented.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on May 3, 2008 2:26 AM PDT up reply actions

He does need a challenge.

LeBron really needs to be in the Western Conference to play against some tougher competition. I think KP can convince him of that when his contract runs out, don’t you?

Trade Freeland!

by rockingharder on May 3, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions

I hope he remembers to thank

Chris Wallace. That’s gonna go down as one of the shadier trades of the all time. And are the Lkers in 1st place with out that trade? Probably not. And would Kbe win MVP if they weren’t the 1 seed? Probably not. He’s a good player, but this reminds me of when Barry Bonds was winning the NL MVP over Pujols—there’s a difference between most outstanding and most valuable.

Now we can only hope that Chris Paul takes this personally and throws up triple doubles on them in the WCF (assuming they beat the hated (by me) Spurs). And also provided, of course, the Jazz don’t beat out the L*kers. And what kind of a horrible matchup is that for us Blazer fans? I can’t believe I’ll have to root for the Jazz. I feel dirty.

by DrivetheLane on May 2, 2008 11:02 PM PDT reply actions

Eh

I think I would give Cp3 the award personally, but you could argue for both. I’d like to see the voting.

KP: You know Mike Rice, Mike Barret you've both been very valuable to us this season. But I'd still trade you both for a couple of 2nd round draft picks.

by Dheepan on May 2, 2008 11:19 PM PDT reply actions

Kobe, LeBron, CP3, KG...

......................................... that’s how I would list them this year; sort ‘em like you want.

Long overdue for Kobe, who is one of the two greatest players in the game today.

"You don't live by the jumpshot, you die by the jumpshot." ---Charles Barkley, 2/7/08

by timbo on May 3, 2008 7:33 AM PDT reply actions

CP3, LeBron, KG, K*be

Trade Freeland!

by rockingharder on May 3, 2008 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions

I still

wanna see him try to jump over a Suburban.

My ignorance is my greatest weapon

by shenanigans on May 3, 2008 7:48 AM PDT reply actions

Smack!!

"We comin along." Travis Outlaw

by annthefan on May 3, 2008 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions

P'shaw

he’s always been MVP… Most Valuable Poser.

boo.

Blake brings it up on the right, swings it to Webster on the elbow, he moves around the key and passes to the low left block for Aldridge, Aldridge jukes baseline, turns back in and finds Roy cutting down the seam, ROY THROWS IT UP AT THE RIM FOR ODEN WHO THROWS IT DOWN FOR THE TWO HANDED MONSTER JAM!!! BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA!!! -Wheeler '08-'09

i can't wait

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on May 3, 2008 10:38 AM PDT reply actions