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David Thorpe's latest postseason MVP rankings are posted (Insider). Stephen Curry doesn't top the list anymore. We discuss:...

David Thorpe has been ranking playoff MVPs (Insider). We discuss:...

Staff of The Commercial-Appeal: The Grizzlies now have two Las Vegas summer league most valuable players on their roster. Second-year guard Josh Selby dominated the past week with his scoring and shared MVP honors with Portland rookie Damian Lillard....

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If the MVP debate is about individual production, the conversation is already over. That's PER, which has various relevant shortcomings: It doesn't really account for wins or defense. If it's LeBron James vs. Kevin Durant, though, James wins the defe...

At Hickory-High, Ian Levy asked readers to pick the MVP based on statistics alone. No names. Yesterday he revealed the results: LeBron James in a landslide. Tony Parker has been mentioned as an MVP candidate, which he says makes him laugh. On Twi...

Robbie Levin of The Miami Herald: In last year's Eastern Conference finals, coach Erik Spoelstra put LeBron James on Derrick Rose when no one else could stop the league's MVP. James effectively shut down Rose, and without his lockdown defense, that s...

Robyn Beck/AFP Tyson Chandler brought respectable D to the offensively gifted Mavericks. The result: a title. Dirk Nowitzki was the MVP of the Mavericks, the Finals, and by most accounts the NBA's best player in the entire playoffs. But to Nowit...

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One my daily duties during the Finals has been to defend my pick, the other day, of LeBron James as MVP of the playoffs so far. Next time I hear that I'm just going to forward along the sage words of Rick Reilly, who writes: I'm the last guy that wa...

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Huge thanks to Jade Hoye, who continues to crank out this great stuff....

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LeBron James is fantastic for the way he plays basketball season long. It has a lot to do with work, decision making, size, efficiency, defense, conditioning, selflessness and everything else. He was my pick for MVP this year, and is a strong cand...