[BlackcatAlum]

This thread is silly. Lebron was the best player during the regular season, therefore he deserved his second MVP award.

Players have their bad games, it doesn't matter who you are. Lebron showed us something in game 5 that we aren't used to seeing and that's taking bad shots and passing up on good looks. He lost focus after the Celtics went on their run and he nor his team could recover.

Kobe didn't fair too well in the Finals, the year he got MVP. Matter a fact, look back at Kobe's series against the Thunder, in a combined 2 games:

25pts, 11asts, 6rebs.
1/3 3's
6/9 FT's

For the series, Kobe was 49/120.

Lebron didn't shoot the ball well, because he waited to long. He still had something like 18pts, 9rebs, and 7asts. It's one game. Now if they don't win the series, the poor performance will seem even worse. And will leave everyone including Lebron wondering, Why wasn't HE/I aggressive from the get go?

Heck, Durant had 3 games or so against the Lakers of like 8-27, etc. And he was up their in MVP voting.

In Kobe's defense, he did have a broken finger and strained knee that handicapped him during that series. He didn't make it public, but his teammates have and they stepped up in a big way during that series.