Should We Really Have To Choose Between LeBron James and Dwyane Wade?

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I have read numerous articles about the MVP race throughout the year and the two main candidates have generally been Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.

However, about a month ago, Dwayne Wade seemed to have entered the race with his stellar play and the Heat’s sudden rise. On the other hand Kobe seems to have left the race.

As good as Bryant has been, he is averaging less steals, points, assists, and is shooting a lower field goal percentage than both Wade and James.

He, himself, may not have done anything to lose the award, but by default he is no longer a true candidate because LeBron’s team, who’s surrounding talent is inferior to Kobe’s, actually has the best record in the NBA.

If a player is putting up worse stats, and doing less with more, than they clearly are not as deserving.

Wade on the other hand is a different story. He actually has better stats than LeBron in virtually every category besides rebounds.

However, even though his statistics are better, in order to give the MVP award to Wade you would have to believe that he is doing as good or better than LeBron would be doing with this same Heat team.

The Heat are currently 38-33, while the Cavaliers are 58-13. The problem is does anyone really think that the Cavaliers surrounding talent is 20 games better than Wade’s?

At first glance, the answer would appear to be no.

However, maybe we don’t give LeBron’s teammates enough credit. Despite LeBron’s .411 FGP and .257 three point percentage in last year’s playoffs, the Cavaliers took the NBA champion Celtics to seven games.

Not only that, but the Cavaliers made a key trade last year in the middle of the season and thus only had less than half a season to truly get together.

Also let’s not forget that the Cavaliers did well against the Celtics despite leBron’s poor play without All Star guard Moe Williams, who has been arguably the best off-season acquisition.

Maybe we get so caught up on focusing on the offensive side of basketball, that we truly under-appreciate the team defense being played by the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers are averaging the least amount of points against this season, and who knows how they would be without LeBron.

However, since he is never injured, we never really get to see how the Cavaliers would be without him.

On the other hand, Wade’s team is truly only seven men deep, with three of those players all 22-years-old or younger. If Wade were to get injured, I don’t even want to imagine how bad the Heat would be without him.

Despite all of this, Wade has single-handily taken this team to its current position as the fifth seed in the East.

However, the dilemma we find in picking between the two is that we can never actually know how the Cavaliers would be without LeBron, or how the Heat would be with LeBron instead of Wade.

I still have not picked my winner yet, and I do not think it is fair for me to do so. These two players both truly deserve the award, and I would hate to see either one of them lose.

In other sports as in the NFL, ties have happened before, and I believe that this year should be the first year that there should be tie for the NBA MVP award.

Unfortunately most likely someone is going to have to lose.

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