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What are we supposed to do, rip on Steve Nash for winning this again?

It’s hard to do that, as it’s not really his fault, but that of Skip Bayless and crew. (We have no idea if Skip has a vote or if he’s even on the Nash bandwagon, but he’s a nice rep for “old man reporter”.)

Anyway, this was known weeks ago, but the actual results are pretty surprising and high on the interesting scale, which curiously enough, isn’t a 1-10, but a 4-17 scale. The following rates a 14.

Nash received 57 first-place votes and 924 points overall from a panel of 125 sportswriters and broadcasters in the United States and Canada.

James had 16 first-place votes and 688 points overall.

Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas was third with 14 first-place ballots and 544 points. The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant had the second-most first-place votes (22), but was fourth overall with 483 points. The Clippers’ Elton Brand was seventh with 50 points.

Now that this is over and done with, it’s all feels kinda anticlimactic and irrelevent, yes? Let’s look at next year.

It’s hard to imagine LeBron won’t be everyone’s preseason MVP prediction, now that he’s won a playoff series and kicked ass doing so. This assumes he’s turned it up that next notch for good and puts in a full season.

What’s also clear is that many in the voting media are still split on Kobe, and that makes us a bit sad, because we hate when people disagree with us. We know of only one solution to this, but again, some off you are still sitting on your $3.00.

The most important thing to learn from yesterday is that there’s a cult of small children in PHX who have an extraordinary amount of power and influence. So much that they’re able to demand front row tickets at major press conferences throughout the city.

We’ve spent time in PHX, and we’ve seen the other things they’re capable of. For example, they have super-strength and also super personalities. In addition, they’re able to lift large amounts of weight and are incredibly friendly and engaging.