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Celtics forward Kevin Garnett finished third in the NBA's MVP balloting behind the Lakers' Kobe Bryant and New Orleans' Chris Paul.

Garnett had 670 total points, including 15 first-place, 23 second-place, 56 third-place, 26 fourth-place, and 1 fifth-place vote.

Celtics forward Paul Pierce received 1 fifth-place vote.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball ... n_mvp.html

That's fairly impressive.

Doesn't surprise me. No doubt in my mind the top 4 are:
1) Kobe
2) Paul
3) KG
4) Lebron

And after that it's all a crapshoot.

Well deserved. I'm glad his weaker stats were overlooked enough to beat one of Kobe,LeBron, Paul single man wrecking crew players.

LeBron only got one 1st place vote because the refs and Stern didn't get to vote.

I try to get past my hatred for the Lakers and Kobe and be subjective about these things but how does someone who tries his hardest to get traded in the off season because he doesn't think his team mates are good enough and is well known for being a bad team mate (hello Andrew Bynum), takes the first couple of weeks of the season off, then gets handed an All Star for nothing for the second half of the season get named MVP?

It boggles my mind how they do these awards. How have players like Shaq and Duncan won the award so few times in their careers?

Ed Pinkney wrote:I try to get past my hatred for the Lakers and Kobe and be subjective about these things but how does someone who tries his hardest to get traded in the off season because he doesn't think his team mates are good enough and is well known for being a bad team mate (hello Andrew Bynum), takes the first couple of weeks of the season off, then gets handed an All Star for nothing for the second half of the season get named MVP?

It boggles my mind how they do these awards. How have players like Shaq and Duncan won the award so few times in their careers?

wtf? It's a season award. Duncan and the spurs turn it on in the playoffs as does shaq. Duncan averaged like less then 35mins a game. Playoffs theres a thing called a finals MVP and both of them have that. When did doing things off court started playing into the MVP voting? thats (Please Use More Appropriate Word), it's what you do on the court and how well your team is playing.

Ed Pinkney wrote:I try to get past my hatred for the Lakers and Kobe and be subjective about these things but how does someone who tries his hardest to get traded in the off season because he doesn't think his team mates are good enough and is well known for being a bad team mate (hello Andrew Bynum), takes the first couple of weeks of the season off, then gets handed an All Star for nothing for the second half of the season get named MVP?

It boggles my mind how they do these awards. How have players like Shaq and Duncan won the award so few times in their careers?

Kobe might have done that in the off-season but as soon as the season started, he got down to business...he didn't take any time off...the Lakers have been one of the top NBA teams all season long.

Kobe's been the most consistent the entire season of the Top 4 (KG, Lebron, CP3).

I think it clearly, clearly, should have been Chris Paul. Kobe gets handed Gasol and has Odom; KG has Paul and Ray; LeBron has no one great but only won 45 games. Meanwhile Chris Paul leads a bunch of relative no-names and has-beens to 56 wins??

Kobe won only 1 more game than Paul but had Gasol and Odom compared to West and Stojakavic; I don't see how Paul doesn't win.

Kobe mailed in the first couple of weeks of the season and only picked it up and started playing pretty good team ball once Bynum and other young players showed they could get it done.

And maybe the last couple of years the Spurs turned it later in the season but there is only one reason the Spurs consistently win 55+ games and are the favourite to win it all each season and his name is Tim Duncan. That to me is what the definition of most "vaulable" player is.

chakdaddy wrote:I think it clearly, clearly, should have been Chris Paul. Kobe gets handed Gasol and has Odom; KG has Paul and Ray; LeBron has no one great but only won 45 games. Meanwhile Chris Paul leads a bunch of relative no-names and has-beens to 56 wins??

Kobe won only 1 more game than Paul but had Gasol and Odom compared to West and Stojakavic; I don't see how Paul doesn't win.

Paul had a healthy team 95% of the season.
Kobe has injury plagued team all of the season. Bynum missing more than half the season and Gasol only playing less than 30 games for the Lakers during the reg season. Despite all this Lakers sit atop of the Western Conference. That is how he wins the MVP, that's why there was a 60 vote 1st place difference between the two.