Remember The Time When The Basketball Media Almost Gave LeBron A Finals MVP After Losing 4-2

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If Kobe averaged 39 11 and 8 and pushed a healthy celtics squad to 6 games despite gasol and Odom missing the entire series then Kobe would've deserved it even if they lost


FIRST OF ALL, GASOL AND ODOM ARE NOT EQUIVELENT TO KYRIE AND LOVE .. ODOM IS MORE COMPARABLE TO TRISTAN THOMPSON. SECOND OF ALL, NO, HE WOULD NOT DESERVE THE MVP IN A LOSS, ESPECIALLY NOT IF HE SHOT 39%.
 

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OP they were never fukking going to give Lebron that record. As soon as it was mentioned media folks were shooting the award down.

That finals MVP award on a losing team and 3 regular season MVPs are the only records white players still own in a league dominated by black athletes.

There was no way in hell lebron would win that MVP and there is no way in hell anyone will win 3 regular season MVPs in a row (that award will always belong to Larry Bird).
 

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Bron going back "home" was a NBA endorsed feel good story line that they promoted all year and they wanted to give bron something in the mutual interest deal. Notice he only signed them 1+1 deals until he actually won. He probably wouldve bolted last year if they wouldve lost

You can also argue going back to cleveland pleased the league and in their eye was a reset clock putting everything back in order since he left cleveland (for which they only had an issue because he didn't go to chicago, LA, NY, Boston/large market/historic teams).
 

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FIRST OF ALL, GASOL AND ODOM ARE NOT EQUIVELENT TO KYRIE AND LOVE .. ODOM IS MORE COMPARABLE TO TRISTAN THOMPSON. SECOND OF ALL, NO, HE WOULD NOT DESERVE THE MVP IN A LOSS, ESPECIALLY NOT IF HE SHOT 39%.
What is Kobe's career FG%?
 

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First off this is not a LeBron hate thread. I don't get into the corny Stan war shyt that be going on here. This is an indictment on the NBA media, which seems like it's been taken over by fukking nerds in the last decade.

LeBron played his ass off in that series. He did his thing. But under no circumstance should a player from a losing team win a finals MVP. None. People were bringing that Jerry West had did it before. Well that mothafukka shouldn't have won it either. And it's a reason it hadn't happens since then.

The vote was 7-4 in favor of Iggy. Steph didn't get one vote. I'm not even mad at that, even though I disagree, but LeBron should have gotten 0. Do y'all know that if that series went to 7 games and the Cavs lost, he might have really won that mothafukka :snoop: These damn writers are on some other shyt. Since win did people start rewarding losing a the highest level. With all that said, LeBron still that nikka

Why is hate to call a fraud a fraud? Nobody is saying Lebron isn't a great player, just miss me with all this GOAT talk. Nikka is playing in historically the worst conference of all time and still needed to team up with other superstars to win a championship.
 

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Yeah shyt is nauseating. I honestly can't wait until this season is over. Too much narrative-driven bullshyt instead of valuing player performance properly. Just seems to get worse as time goes on. Nobody is even interested in the actual game anymore.

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I don't know if I've seen an athlete who the media wants to reward even when they lose. It's all about stats and actually winning becomes secondary.

These clowns keep talking about +/- when GS outscored the Cavs 11-0 to win Game 3 with Lebron on the floor.
 
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