Most Undeserved MVP selections

[NumberSix]

I honestly don't really have a problem with Rose getting the MVP. I don't care what anyone says, 25/8/4 on 45% shooting while leading your team to the 1 seed is an MVP caliber season.

There's no such thing as "an MVP calibre season". You're either #1 that season or you're not.

[NumberSix]

Rose in 2011 (D. Howard)
Iverson in 2001 (Shaq)
Malone in 1999 (Duncan)
Malone in 1997 (MJ)
Magic in 1990 (MJ)
Cowens in 1973 (Kareem)
Reed in 1970 (J. West)

I could agree with pretty much everything on this list

[Dodonpa9]

Labong Jaimes

[Shep]

nash in '05 and '06

[2006suns]

mailman. the media just went with him coz jordan 'failed' to top his 72-10 season the year before. revisionist history here, but i would've handed the mvp to duncan in '99 as well.

[Figlo]

2x Nash and Kobe

[dh144498]

how many times is OP going to make this thread?

anyway answer is: lebron 09, 10, 12, 13 if he wins this year.

[longtime lurker]

I honestly don't really have a problem with Rose getting the MVP. I don't care what anyone says, 25/8/4 on 45% shooting while leading your team to the 1 seed is an MVP caliber season.

Only on insidehoops could that be considered subpar. Replace Rose name with Lebron and posters on this site would be jizzing themselves. Anyways the answer is both Nash MVP"s and Lebron in 2012

[elementally morale]

I don't think there has ever been anyone not deserving. All these guys who are in the running work their asses off. Some of the time there were players who were probably more deserving than the actual winner. But this is no wonder in a league where team record is a big part of the award that is given by the media to begin with.

[Frozen1]

Wade should have won in 2009, but lebron had a case because of the team record.

[Blue&Orange]

I am starting to think this guy and Silk are the same person. They make the exact same threads and hate on same players.

Hey Jeff do an IP check on him will ya?

Same IQ also.

[Smoke117]

Purely stat wise Malone DESERVED THE MVP AWARD IN 97. His stats, per, whatever you want to bring up were better. I also don't remember Karl Malaone playing with a Scottie Pippen on his team either. Stock was grreat, but he was no Pippen by 97.

Either way, Malone absolutely derserved that MVP AWARD.

[Smoke117]

iverson and Derrick Rose. End of discussion.

[Just2McFly]

mvp is a narrative award and there was definitely a story behind iverson's mvp. i dont think that rose's or iverson's were as bad as Kobe's makeup award in 2008 and Nash's appeal to white america award in 06

CP3 was playing on level FEW have ever reached

Kobe was straight killing people in 06, im pretty sure jalen rose never saw the court as a starter after that season

how they didnt win those years makes no sense to me


people say that nash was playing without amare for most of the year, kobe had freaking kwame and smush for f*cks sake

i think that iverson had an amazing case for mvp that year, i know people rag on that selection because of shaq's dominance but iverson was dominant that year as well. it's too bad that he didn't have a top 5 player doing work on his squad as well. i think that the emergence of a superstar level kobe detracted votes from shaq that year

[deja vu]

Steve Nash is the most undeserving MVP.