Nash is NOT the Real MVP!

I saw that Steve Nash over the weekend was named NBA MVP. Now, I love Nash, I think he is great, he plays for my boys (Phoenix) and he clearly helped a Suns team that didn't have Amare still matter. But he wasn't MVP.

As much as this pains me to say it, Kobe was higher than Nash. Kobe took a lame-ass supporting cast, with Lamar Odom and a number of castoffs and who-dats, and made them matter. Indeed, the Lakers probably should have beaten the Suns in the first round of the playoffs. So Kobe, for making a bad team matter, ranked higher than Nash, but not the highest.

The real MVP was LeBron. This year, without LeBron the Cavaliers were a 25-win team, at best, and probably looking at moving to Kansas City or Oklahoma City in 2007. Instead, the Cavs won 50, won a playoff series and are clearly pointed in the right direction. Yet, LeBron has done even more than that - arguably, he is saving that franchise. No Lebron, and guys like Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes and Damon Jones don't want to play there. TV doesn't want to broadcast their games. Kids don't want to buy their jerseys. In other words: they're the Hawks or Warriors.

So, not only for making the biggest difference on his team this year - but for making the difference between the Cavaliers mattering and the Cavaliers moving - LeBron should be MVP this year.

Of course, that is OK he didn't get it, he will get some before he is done.