Which is more prestigious: Regular Season MVP or Finals MVP?

[SamuraiSWISH]

As long as the award wasn't TOO heavily favoured for the best player on the team that won the title, which we all know it would be. For example in 2004 Billups winning it instead of Shaq would be a tragedy.

The justification I give to that is a player would have to have an INSANE playoffs and not make the Finals either due to weakness of team, etc.

Jordan was quite easily MVP in '89 and '90, especially if you include playoff performance. But he didn't make it to the Finals, right?

A truly tough one would be 2009. LeBron had a great regular season, highest non guard assists average ever, 66 win season, and in the ECF 38/8/8 in a losing effort. Kobe on the other hand led a 65 win team and had a great playoff run himself, winning the title.

That is a tough one. LeBron had one of the best playoff runs ever, Kobe had a very good playoffs and won a ring. 2009 is a difficult pick. I choose LeBron for that season due to the regular season and insane playoffs. Kobe's regular season wasn't as good as LeBron's (or Wade's) and his playoffs from an individual standpoint was less impressive than LeBron's even though he went one round more and won a ring.

In comparison on that same note, I take Kobe's 2010 over LeBron's 2010 for the same reason. Kobe didn't have as great of a regular season, but his playoffs were absolutely better and he went two rounds deeper and lead his team to a ring. Where as LeBron pouted and quit on his team in the 2nd round of the playoffs.

The MVP absolutely has to take into account both regular season and post season in order to give a more accurate gauge of who was the best player in that particular season.

[Psileas]

I'd rather see a "Playoff MVP" instead of simply a Finals MVP or, as an alternative, an EC Playoff and WC Playoff MVP award, which would be awarded before the beginning of the Finals, where there would await the traditional Finals MVP. A (general) playoff MVP could be given to the player of (usually) the champions who performed the best throughout the whole playoffs. This way, we wouldn't be seeing cases like Maxwell, Parker, Worthy, etc.

As things are, you may not even have to play great ball during the whole Finals in order to win the award. In a tough, balanced series, with different protagonists in each game, just a couple of very good games and being decent in the rest of the series could be enough. That's not the case with the Regular Season award.

[And1AllDay]

Finals because by that point the season is over. You can win MVP and shit the bed in the first round.

When you win Finals you can be like Paul Pierce and proclaim yourself "the best player in the world." and nobody can say shit cuz not only did you win a ring, but you got the MVP.

People talk about "role players" winning Finals MVPs, but it's been a really long time since that happened and I would argue it won't happen again.

-Smak

You may be true Curry has been a role player on GSW and never won one

[tanibanana]

All season MVP are HOF worthy. A few FMVP are not even HOF worthy. I'll go with season MVP.

[Ainosterhaspie]

Rose isn't HOF worthy.

[tanibanana]

Rose isn't HOF worthy.

Could be the first... but it is more due to injury and not the player he is.

[Ainosterhaspie]

Could be the first... but it is more due to injury and not the player he is.

No argument there, and I agree with your overall point. There are more FMVPs who were lesser players, than regular season MVPs, in part because FMVP can be won with two or three quality games. That's much easier for a lesser player to pull off than being the best player for a whole season.

[ImKobe]

Rose isn't HOF worthy.

How is he not? ROY, MVP, multiple All-Star seasons, All-NBA season, two gold medals from World Cups. Worse players are in the Hall, he's still playing at a high level offensively (most points per 36 minutes in his career, still a 20+ PER guy) so it's not like he's close to being done yet.

[Smoke117]

How is he not? ROY, MVP, multiple All-Star seasons, All-NBA season, two gold medals from World Cups. Worse players are in the Hall, he's still playing at a high level offensively (most points per 36 minutes in his career, still a 20+ PER guy) so it's not like he's close to being done yet.

Yeah...he puts up numbers still...on losing teams going nowhere. Rose needs to actually contribute to a winning team for it to matter. Last time he was on one (Cavs) he was awful.

[Bronbron23]

The one that pretty much every player would chose if they had to.......fmvp

[houston]

finals mvp is more of a joke award....regular season by far

[3ball]

who has the most regular season MVP's in 3-pointer basketball?

who has the most Finals MVP's in 3-pointer basketball?

Who has the most total MVP's (reg season and Finals) in 3-pointer basketball?

[SouBeachTalents]

finals mvp is more of a joke award....regular season by far

Absolutely retarded take

[SouBeachTalents]

who has the most regular season MVP's in 3-pointer basketball?

who has the most Finals MVP's in 3-pointer basketball?

Who has the most total MVP's (reg season and Finals) in 3-pointer basketball?

And LeBron has the 2nd most total MVP's in 3 pointer basketball

[3ball]

And LeBron has the 2nd most total MVP's in 3 pointer basketball

but no higher than 4th in the skill category - behind MJ, Kobe, Bird.. and no higher than 117th in clutch/mentality... and no higher than 1035th in teamwork/brand of ball/team ceiling/viability on championship level

and no higher than 1 ring without teammate saving him or team-hopping, so no higher than 169th in winning

so not all that high