Players that SHOULD have won the MVP

[1987_Lakers]

Shaq 2001
Jordan 1997
Jordan 1990
Larry Bird 1981
Kareem 1973

[jlauber]

Shaq 2001
Jordan 1997
Jordan 1990
Larry Bird 1981
Kareem 1973

72-73 was a tough one. Cowens led the Celtics to a 68-14 record. And Archibald not only led the league in scoring, he also led the league in assists. And finally, Wilt led the league in rebounding, set a FG% mark that will probably never be broken, and was voted first team all-defense.

[jlauber]

Incidently McAdoo should probably have beaten Kareem out in 73-74. McAdoo led the NBA in scoring at 30.6 ppg (Kareem was at 27.0); he led the league in FG% at .547 (Kareem was at .539); and he averaged 15.1 rpg (Kareem was at 14.5 rpg.)

[ShaqAttack3234]

Jordan certainly had much better stats...but Magic led that Laker team to a 63-19 record...and Kareem had retired the season before. Once again, I believe Magic made his teammates much better than they would have been without him. His stats, like Russell's and even Duncan's, don't always tell the whole story.

Jordan was just the better player at that point, IMO and he was elite at both ends of the court and the Bulls team was good, but not that good as Pippen and Grant were not in their primes yet.

Technically, Barkley got robbed in a sense because got the most first place votes and lost the award based soley on biased morons who left him off their ballot completely. Granted, I think Jordan was the most deserving anyway, but anyone who left Barkley off their ballot should have been banned from voting for the award.

[SALFORD-RED]

This may have been mentioned in Shaqattacks post that you mentioned in the OP, but Kobe 05-06.

Seriously, he got the 7th seed with the most garbage roster of all time.

Chris Mihm, Kwame Brown, Smuch Parker, Luke Walton, Vujacic, Brian Cook.

That was his supporting cast and he took them within 1 Tim Thomas 3 of beating the 2 seed. That was the year I looked upon the MVP as a joke accolade (as Shaq later described "tainted").


Finals MVP should have been Manu in 2005.

[Samurai Swoosh]

IMO

1990 - Michael Jordan
1993 - Michael Jordan
1997 - Michael Jordan
2006 - Kobe Bryant
2007 - Kobe Bryant
2008 - Chris Paul
2009 - Dwyane Wade

[DeeDee]

06 - Lebron
08 - Chris Paul

[1987_Lakers]

72-73 was a tough one. Cowens led the Celtics to a 68-14 record. And Archibald not only led the league in scoring, he also led the league in assists. And finally, Wilt led the league in rebounding, set a FG% mark that will probably never be broken, and was voted first team all-defense.

The Celtics winning 68 games that year really wasn't impressive once you realize that they played in the same division as Buffalo who lost 61 games & the Sixers who lost 73 games. 14 of their wins came against these two teams. Archibald had a great year statistically, but it led to no team success, the Kings only won 36 games that year. Wilt was an amazing defender & rebounder in '73, but he was no longer dominant enough to win MVP. Kareem was clearly the best player in the league averaging 30/16/5 on 55FG% & his team did win 60 games. Kareem should of been MVP in 1973.

[Samurai Swoosh]

IMO

1990 - Michael Jordan
1993 - Michael Jordan
1997 - Michael Jordan
2006 - Kobe Bryant
2007 - Kobe Bryant
2008 - Chris Paul
2009 - Dwyane Wade

Yes, you read all that correctly ... Michael Jordan should've been sitting on 8 MVP awards.

No one man should have ALL that power !!

[jlauber]

The Celtics winning 68 games that year really wasn't impressive once you realize that they played in the same division as Buffalo who lost 61 games & the Sixers who lost 73 games. 14 of their wins came against these two teams. Archibald had a great year statistically, but it led to no team success, the Kings only won 36 games that year. Wilt was an amazing defender & rebounder in '73, but he was no longer dominant enough to win MVP. Kareem was clearly the best player in the league averaging 30/16/5 on 55FG% & his team did win 60 games. Kareem should of been MVP in 1973.

Not really arguing with you, but all three of those guys had a legitimate case. Chamberlain finished 4th. That guy couldn't even win the MVP award with a 50.4 ppg, 25.7 rpg, .506 season. And in another year, he averaged 44.8 ppg (winning the scoring title by 10 ppg); led the league in rebounding at 24.6 rpg; set a then record FG% mark of .528; led the NBA in Win Shares by a wide-margin (albeit on a losing team); and a PER rating of 31.8, which is the all-time record. For all of that, he finished SEVENTH in the voting.

[Sarcastic]

Yes, you read all that correctly ... Michael Jordan should've been sitting on 8 MVP awards.

No one man should have ALL that power !!

If Jordan won every year from 1987-1998 (not including 1994+1995 due to retirement), I would have no problem with that. He was easily the best player in the league for each and every one of those years.

[Samurai Swoosh]

If Jordan won every year from 1987-1998 (not including 1994+1995 due to retirement), I would have no problem with that. He was easily the best player in the league for each and every one of those years.

Yesss ... easily. Anyone arguing that is ridiculous. It wasn't even arguable from 1990 - 1998. Throw in the '87 MVP. That's 8 MVP's I feel he should have.

[Lebron23]

2005 - Kobe
2006 - LeBron James
2008 - Chris Paul

[Bosnian Sajo]

shaq 00-01, 04-05

kobe 05-07 basically

[1987_Lakers]

Yesss ... easily. Anyone arguing that is ridiculous. It wasn't even arguable from 1990 - 1998. Throw in the '87 MVP. That's 8 MVP's I feel he should have.

No.