LeBron James Wins Fourth MVP Award

LeBron James added another award to his growing trophy collection by winning the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award for the 2012-13 season.  It’s LeBron’s  fourth league MVP award of this career, and he joins four Hall of Fame players as the only ones to win four MVP Awards.  Those four are Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Michael Jordan.  That’s pretty good company.

Even a lot of Lebron haters, or at least non-fans of his, agreed he was deserving of the award.  However, the vote was not unanimous; Lebron got 120 of the 121 votes, with the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony getting the other one.

It turns out that Gary Washington of the Boston Globe was the contrarian. Washington’s reasoning was that the Knicks would not have made the playoffs without Anthony and that the Miami Heat have a good roster even without LeBron, and could presumably make the playoffs whether he was there or not.  Oh.