Cleveland already preparing for excuses?

[Moranis]

The MVP is not the Best Player award.

Exactly and people who think that Best Player = MVP are going to be disappointed time & time again.  I'd be hard-pressed to find people who genuinely felt Barkley or Malone were the better overall player than Jordan in those seasons.

You can have the best season & not be the best player in the game.  They aren't automatically coupled together.   There is an intangible & team related component to the award.

Oh I know, but I do actually think James had the best season, but it was close and he missed 2 weeks, so I don't see any real issue with Curry getting it or Harden for that matter as they all had pretty comparable seasons on the whole.  In fact I would have had Harden ahead of Curry given Harden carried his team to 56 wins with Howard missing a lot of time along with a fair number of other injuries and the addition (and integration) of Smith during the season. 

[GratefulCs]

The MVP is not the Best Player award.

Exactly and people who think that Best Player = MVP are going to be disappointed time & time again.  I'd be hard-pressed to find people who genuinely felt Barkley or Malone were the better overall player than Jordan in those seasons.

You can have the best season & not be the best player in the game.  They aren't automatically coupled together.   There is an intangible & team related component to the award.

Oh I know, but I do actually think James had the best season, but it was close and he missed 2 weeks, so I don't see any real issue with Curry getting it or Harden for that matter as they all had pretty comparable seasons on the whole.  In fact I would have had Harden ahead of Curry given Harden carried his team to 56 wins with Howard missing a lot of time along with a fair number of other injuries and the addition (and integration) of Smith during the season.

i definitely see the argument for harden since dwight missed a bunch of time


But all too often i see that he gets 25-30 points on like 7-25 shooting


He does get legit contact, but i'm not a fan of his game

[fairweatherfan]

LeBron finally brought a banner to Cleveland, huh?   

[GreenFaith1819]

Was speaking with a young CLE fan today about the series. He seems to think that CLE has enough weapons to cover EVERY threat that GSW has.

LOL.

Iman Shumpert and LeBron James are the best defenders on that team as far as perimeter..I don't see Kyrie or JR Smith shutting (or even slowing) Steph, Klay, Draymond or Harrison down much.

LeBron's going to have to WORK on DEFENSE as well as OFFENSE this series.

I was a big doubter of GSW earlier this season. I was WRONG. GSW is REAL and CLE is about to find that out here soon.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

LeBron finally brought a banner to Cleveland, huh?   

Touché, my friend, touché. And a TP.

[Lucky17]

Looking forward to this series.

Also looking forward to using the 'SAP' button on that ABC broadcast.

[Celtics18]

Mozgov should be miffed

And JR.  And Delly.

I would have said that maybe these banners were made prior to Smith and Timo's arrival, but didn't Shumpert come over at the same time.