Lakers: Kyle Kuzma Believes LeBron James Should Win MVP After Voters ‘Ruined’ Defensive Player Of The Year Award

In recent weeks, the NBA has named the winners of a few regular-season awards, including Rookie of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. However, the most prestigious honor of the regular season a player can earn has yet to be announced: the Most Valuable Player award.

Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo won the MVP award last season and is the favorite to win it again this year. However, LeBron James also defended his fifth league MVP during the regular season, and it appears Kyle Kuzma believes James’s case is stronger than Antetokounmpo’s.

Kuzma isn’t the only one who thinks so either. On Wednesday, Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson, one of the original members of the Lakers ‘young core and James’ former teammate with the Cavaliers, tweeted that James should be named MVP.

Frank Vogel also reiterated that he believes James deserves the award for how crucial he has been to the Lakers’ success this season.

“Nobody impacts winning more than LeBron James,” Vogel said. “That’s true for this season, that’s why he should be the MVP, and honestly, it’s probably true in the history of the game that no one impacts winning more than LeBron James.”

Antetokounmpo will likely be named MVP when the time comes, but the amount of fanfare surrounding his main season has greatly cooled because the Bucks were eliminated from playoff contention on Tuesday. Meanwhile, James and the Lakers currently hold a 2-1 lead in their series with the Houston Rockets.

James might end the season without any regular season awards, but he’s still in the running for the two biggest pieces of hardware in basketball. If James had to choose between a regular season MVP and a Finals MVP with a championship trophy next to him, it’s safe to assume he would choose the latter, and that’s not just because he has four regular season MVPs at home. . I mean, what does the regular season accolades really mean without a championship ring?

It is not a thing.

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