With his extraordinary level of play this season, Lebron James is on par to be crowned this year’s regular season MVP. That would make it four out of the last five years that James has been given the prestigious award. But this season of all his wonderful years in the NBA can arguably go down as his best yet.
James is leading his Miami Heat team with 27 points per game, eight rebounds per game and seven assists per game, while shooting an amazing 54% from the field. The consistent level of play has been on display for the entire season and each game James seems to excite his fans more and more by doing something more amazing than the game before.
Assuming James ends up being named MVP, he would become only the fifth player in NBA history to win the award at least four times, joining superstars Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Bill Russell (five), Michael Jordan (five) and Wilt Chamberlain (four). He would also become the first player since the NBA-ABA merger back in 1976 to win the MVP four times within a five-year span.
I honestly believe that this should be James fifth MVP, in my opinion he was wrongly robbed of the award in the 2010-2011 season, which was given to Chicago Bulls superstar guard Derrick Rose. Even in that season, James was playing the best basketball but I believe that his decision to go play for the Miami Heat that season, which was already equipped with two other stars, weighed heavily on the voting.
As a Lebron fan, this additional career achievement will feel great because it shows me that the world is coming around to the idea of James being the best player in the game today and maybe even the history.
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