Paul Pierce: Most undeserving Finals MVP ever?

[NumberSix]

2012 they could have given it to Dan or Joey Crawford.

2013 Wade or Allen

[HomieWeMajor]

They should have given all of MJ's 6 FMVPs to Madonna or Scottie's dick.

[ripthekik]

Lebron James says hi.

[Mass Debator]

Jerry West in a losing effort.

[Fresh Kid]

Lebron James says hi.

i agree, lebron definitely don't deserve them mvps

[Duranthebest]

Only Ray Allen fans think Pierce didn't deserve the 2008 finals mvp. SMFH @ giving the award to Ray because he got to shoot wide open 3s in a game 6 blowout.

Pierce lead the team in scoring and assists. GTFOH

[Boston C's]

Only Ray Allen fans think Pierce didn't deserve the 2008 finals mvp. SMFH @ giving the award to Ray because he got to shoot wide open 3s in a game 6 blowout.

Pierce lead the team in scoring and assists. GTFOH

nobody said he didn't deserve it...in fact the consensus in this conversation was that it could have gone to anyone from allen to pierce to k.g and it would have been fine...I'm not surprised pierce won it he was just as deserving as anyone and was the face of the celtics franchise for so long anyway that it would have probably seemed weird if he didn't win it

[ArbitraryWater]

KG was the Finals MVP.


And Duncan should have been the MVP over Parker.


Apparently defense isn't taken into consideration when deciding Finals MVP.

Bump (interesting, good thread)

Its funny how years later KG gets mentioned, if KG would have won it, he would have been one of the lowest TS% FMVP winners ever.

Here is what people said at the time:
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90510
^Spudjay guy is annoying, but not a SINGLE KG mention after 3 gms...

IMO, Allen was the FMVP. But Pierce wasnt far off, not much of a problem with him winning. Game 6 was a blowout, and before that one, Pierce's stats do look noticeably better than Allen's.

And we've heard so much shit on how Gasol got clowned, but really Gasol did his thing, significantly outshot Kobe through the first 2 gms, was the MOTM in game 5, and KG was the one who stunk it up.

[SouBeachTalents]

The truly egregious selections imo are

'76: White over Cowens
'80: Magic over Kareem
'88: Worthy over Magic

And I know others usually bring up Unseld over Hayes in '78 & Iggy over Curry, but you could argue both those players more "valuable" during their teams Finals comebacks

Other FMVP's that were close
'73: Several Knicks could have won it
'74: Hondo/Cowens
'79: DJ/Gus Williams
'81: Bird/Maxwell
'08: Big 3

'05 & especially '10 get brought up all the time, but I honestly never got the hype about those. Manu & Gasol both had great home performances, but both were straight up abysmal on the road. Not saying they weren't somewhat debatable selections, but I don't think it was controversial at all that Duncan & Kobe won FMVP, even with their terrible shooting performances in Game 7

[ArbitraryWater]

all that 'abysmal on the road' stuff is super weak reasoning.. Kobe looked like shit as well barring g5... Duncan was fckn awful in game 5... all in all, who cares, the whole series matter, and Ginobil/Gasol have better cases imo.

[houston]

iggy takes this title

[Elosha]

Paul Pierce deserved his Finals MVP. He was the most fearless Celtic, the one who stepped up the most and made the most big plays. He guarded Kobe fairly well and wasn't intimidated a bit, and he led the team in scoring and assists. The Celtics Big 3 all played wel and with true passion, but Pierce was the clear MVP in my mind.

[Stringer Bell]

I had no issues with Pierce winning it and I also would have no qualms if Garnett had won it either. Garnett did have some shooting struggles but he was very big on defense, and you could argue his presence and performance was the most "valuable" to the Celtics.

Actually, all of the big 3 were very important.

[PP34Deuce]

Ray was a consistent shooter and KG was our anchor.

but Paul was the guy that kept everything together in the finals. He was our most versatile scorer, had always plays Kobe really good in the 2nd half. He exploited lanes and he deserved Finals MVP.

KG ran out of gas in the finals but was still extremely effective.

[Bigsmoke]

Game 1-kg
Game 2- pierce
Game 3- Kobe
Game 4- pierce
Game 5- pierce
Game 6- allen