LeBron James is one of the most decorated players in the history of the NBA. His four MVP awards trail only Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but Bron thinks he should have more MVPs than he already does.
Coming off a 37-point performance against the upstart Charlotte Hornets, talks of "LeBron for MVP" were amplified. After the game, LeBron spoke about his mindset going into every season and sparked some interesting conversation around his current campaign for MVP.
"I should have more than four, I believe," LeBron told reporters. "But ... I don't sit around thinking about it or crying about it, or whatever the case may be. I just try to come in the next season and be the MVP and be talked about [for] it again. I bet a lot of the greatest that played this game feel like they should have more as well, if you ask any one of those guys."
LeBron last won the award in 2012-13 but has been in the top-three just about every season since (hold for the 2018-19 season when a groin injury limited him to 55 games). Bron's teammate Kyle Kuzma said what many people think. "The NBA MVP is a very political award," said Kuzma. "Bron should have been the MVP at least eight, nine, 10 times. Everybody knows that."
While LeBron said he doesn't dwell on the MVPs he wasn't awarded, he admitted that winning the award this year would be special:
"It is something. It means something, for sure. I'm not going to sit here and say it doesn't mean anything to me. And for me to be able to win it a few times in my career has always been special. ... Being in the running, hearing my name with some of the best basketball players in the league this year again, it would mean a lot. At my age, what I'm able to do, what I've been doing this whole season, what I bring to the table every single night on both sides of the floor, it would mean an unbelievable thing for me, especially at this point in my career."
Source: bleacherreport.com
