Pretty obvious that he would win it. I'm not suprised he won in a landslide but I am a bit suprised that Durant finished with more votes than Kobe.

Its kind of hard to see the award going to anyone else the next 1-2 seaons. LeBron could have a few of these by the time he's done.

If LeBron wins a 3rd straight MVP next year - is it a better accomplishment than Bird winning his 3 in a row? I say no, when Bird won his 3 he was playing in a tough time with so many HOFers.

I wonder if he will be a bit like Jordan in that even though he deserves the MVP they give it to the other person that is "due" - Charles Barkley in 93 and Karl Malone in 97 when MJ was clearly the deserving winner.

Bizzy, totally agree that Barkley got the MVP in 1992-93 because was "due." Which I guess is fine, because Barkley was a great player and was damn good in 1993.

The same could happen to LeBron next season, but I just think of anyone who is "due" for the MVP. Can you or anyone else? All the players I can think of who should have won the award already have.

Durant and Howard were a bit unlucky this season and worthy of a mention.

Who were the two that only had him at third???
Even the 5 who had him second need to take a look at themselves.

Pfft, I would have put Melo and Wade above Kobe this year.

Melo had a breakout year and Wade does what Lebron does; he just plays on a crap team.

Shame too that Steve Nash didn't rate higher either.

LeBron was the standout pick for MVP and this was never in doubt IMO. Durant a worthy runner up.

Interseting to note that one media clown considered former Sydney King Stephen Jackson the 5th best player in the league this season.

Well done Lebron, now unless you can lead Cleveland to a title this year, that MVP is going to mean....f*** all.

I can't see anybody else winning MVP for the next however many years LeBron plays for

What about Kevin Durant, Jules? Especially if the Thunder become a perennial playoff team, and LeBrons' teams don't win any titles? NBA scoring champion in his third season isn't a bad trajectory.

I was going to start a new thread about this, but it deserves to be buried in this one.

There's no way an NBA MVP (past or present) should be doing stuff like this: Linky to Kobe rocking some atrocious white clothes after arriving for photo shoot in a helicopter.

My initial questions: who's ever heard of a hooded scarf? Who wears one? Why do they cost US$695?

I think it deserves to be buried deeper in this thread, but what is done is done.

Watch out for Derrick Rose within 4 years. If he had a shooter on the team he would be 20 and 10 already.

Nup...not even Durant, I just can't see it. Well, if anyone, Durant, but only if the Thunder top the West and he averages 34-40ppg (by the way I don't think he's that far off the latter)...Lebron will be a 30+ 7+ 7+ for the next 6 years, and I don't see him not being in the best team in whatever conference (plus you mentioned the possiblity of not winning a ring...well, its a regular season award given before the 2nd round even starts). He is just one of a kind, no one comes close to being that dominant, and in the way that only he is dominant...totally unreliant on jump shots.

Besides, even in a year where Durant made close to the best possible case for MVP, leading scorer, shooting high percentages, taking a team who no one expected to be any kind of good this early to a 50 win season, he only got 4 first place votes to LBJ's 116...and in TOTAL votes doubled him (1205 to 609).

It is given before the second round, but a few MVP years without a corresponding championship would start to stick in voters' minds IMO.

Bo, he looks ridiculous. Must be the make-up? looks like a different person - I would've guessed it was a lookalike at best.

Yeh you're probably right...although I don't think he'll be without a championship too long...

Jules, I think the 'nobody else is ever going to win another MVP award while [X] is around' is probably very common. The same could be said for Kobe a few years ago, Shak before that, and MJ for as long as he wanted to play (sympathy votes to other good players aside).

James will lose a step or two as he ages, and will need to rely on his jumper more. Plus as he gets a better supporting cast around him and his stats inevitably peak or start to decline the votes will go elsewhere.

The NBA always need a new star to put their marketing behind, and keep the interest in the league.

Nah, it's differnet for LeBron than it is with Kobe and those guys...he's on another level.

I'm sorry, did you just say LeBron is on a whole other level to Jordan? You better mean lower!

I wouldn't mind seeing a critique from Mr Blackwell regarding Kobe's fashion statements. Whatever happened to him?

Bo, that sure looks like Kobe doing a "Blue Steel".

Maybe he calls it 'White Steel'?

For dedicated Kobe-watchers like me, this stuff is grist for our mill. Why do this? He's baffling and addictive all at once.

Lol, just read this quote from the Tribune..

Sure, Howard was the reason the Magic finished with the NBA's second-best record (behind James' Cavs).

But to me, anybody who is 24 and has nine cars and a mansion and enough cash to buy an island ... and still cares enough to actually repeat as the Defensive Player of the Year ... that guy warrants the runner-up distinction, if not knighthood.

I'd buy an island and then dig a moat.