knightcrawler, someone to get on my MVP ballot, his team has to win 50 wins :=) I don't blame Lakers n Kobe fans rooting for Kobe to win the MVP. Deep inside they know he is not going to win it..... ya guys should be happy that he finally won the Scoring title he has coveted for so long ;) I have yet to hear about Kobe stats beside socring.... MVP is not about scoring, it's about the whole PACKAGE :p:p The only reason i have heard so far is that he is a kobe and he plays for Lakers and scored 81 points :=) Let's hear it.. the dude doesn't play the defense as he used to Mr Zen Master(this could be another reason for him to write kobe bash book) :=) Dude won't even make the 2nd defense team this year and dude is a 45% shooter... dude also doesn't rebound as used to.. assists is gone down... and YA ALL WANT HIM TO WIN THE MVP??? Kobe will Nepali NBA Fantasy League MVP (here's some love Laker4ever bro :p:p) oys bro, we are talking about the MVP race and you bringing his personal life stuff??? if you want to talk to about his personal life like before we should create another thread ;) When Lakers chose Kobe to keep instead Shaq, I applauded Lakers organization. I thought Kobe was a better investment than Shaq and still do. Let's leave these sorta things and talk about his points, rebounds, assists, steal, defense, offense.. what you say? Here's why chose Nash :=) His team won 50+ games, he did it w/o AMARE, his score went up from last year, so did FG%, FT%, 3 points shooting is gone up as well. he makes jounreymen players like Bell and Tim Thomas great players.