Kobe & LeBron: Double Standards for MVP

The day after a somewhat difficult loss on the Los Angeles Lakers in Cleveland, I decided to finally see what is being written about our two MVPs. So I visited NBA.com, thinking that they would have a constructive analysis on last night's game.

Now I see that it was just wishful thinking.

I stumbled across their Race to the MVP where Frank Hughes, writer for NBA.com, writes:

"Yes, by virtue of Cleveland's defeat of Los Angeles on Thursday night, which gives LeBron a two-games-to-none sweep of Kobe Bryant this season, The King remains the The King, deserving of yet another MVP award."

Oh, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hughes.

Are we really going to have a double-standard for LeBron and Kobe?

Lets rewind this back a year.

The Los Angeles Lakers have swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the regular season matchup. LeBron James shot a dismal 5-for-20 from the matchup in Cleveland but not before having 9-for-25 shooting performance in Los Angeles.

That's a combined 14-for-45 shooting, and if you do the math on that one, it comes up to 31 percent.

Hardly, MVP caliber if you ask me.

However, at the end of the season, the Cleveland Cavaliers finished with one more win than the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James was granted MVP.

Why is it, Mr. Hughes, that the season matchup a year ago ended up being irrelevant to the criteria for MVP and this season it appears to be the pivotal deciding factor in the Race for MVP. 

Lets face it, it doesn't really matter which players surround an MVP candidate because at the end of the day, the MVP will make the players around him better.

How many teams have we seen come and go with ample amount of talent and still unable to seed in the playoffs?

Why?

It's because you need good team chemistry in order to win games and you need that one really special player who knows how to measure beakers and can bring a team together.

Someone start playing the violin.

Kobe Bryant is playing with back spasms and an avulsion fracture in his right index finger.

For a lot of players in the league, that's a few weeks off, until they get their A-OK stamp on their foreheads from the team doctors, but not Kobe.

He plays through pain and he's doing a pretty good job at that having three buzzer beating game winners within a months time.

To most players, experiencing that moment just once in their career is fulfilling but Kobe has three, just this season.

But those games can't really be all that important, could they? Well, lets just say for a second that Kobe missed those three shots.

That would put the Lakers right now at 29-13, below King James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

But lets go back to the real world where the Los Angeles Lakers still hold the best record in the NBA so a minor setback in Cleveland last night has yet to hold them any real harm.

It's just a game, just one of 82.

Yes, the Cleveland Cavaliers have swept the season series against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Bravo.

I applaud them with a big sarcastic clap-clap.

When its all said and done, we'll see who will be holding the Larry O'Brien trophy at the end of June.