[專欄] LeBron James wins third NBA MVP award

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MIAMI -- Miami Heat forward LeBron James is the NBA's MVP for a third time,
putting him alongside some of the game's all-time greats.

A person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press that James will
be announced Saturday as this year's winner of the league's top individual
honor, and that he'll be formally presented with the trophy by commissioner
David Stern on Sunday afternoon before Miami hosts Indiana in Game 1 of an
Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the league has not
announced the results.

James is winning the award for the third time in four seasons. Only seven
other players -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Wilt
Chamberlain, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Moses Malone -- have at least
three MVP trophies.

James said last week that while another MVP award "would be amazing and would
be humbling," it's not what drives him. In his ninth season, James still has
not won an NBA title and it's clear that, although he wanted to reclaim the
MVP trophy, winning a championship is far and away his top basketball
priority.

"What I'm all about is team and ever since I was a kid, I was always taught
it's team first," James told the AP on Friday. "My first time playing
basketball, we went undefeated and won a championship and Frank Walker Sr.
gave everyone on the team a MVP trophy. Right then and there, I knew that
this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to see my teammates reap the benefits
as well."

Abdul-Jabbar won the MVP six times, Jordan and Russell five times each,
Chamberlain four times. After this weekend, they'll be the only players with
more than James.

"I think he's probably as committed as he's ever been in his career," Heat
coach Erik Spoelstra said this week, asked to summarize James' season. "And
he's always been committed. ... We all respond to his energy on the court."

James averaged 27.1 points, 7.9 rebounds and 6.2 assists - making him only
the fourth player with those totals in at least two different seasons,
according to STATS LLC, joining Oscar Robertson (five times), John Havlicek
(twice) and Bird (twice).

Add James' 53 percent shooting and 1.9 steals per game into the mix, and the
club gets even more exclusive. Only Jordan had a season with numbers
exceeding what James did this season in those categories -- 1988-89, when he
averaged 32.5 points, eight rebounds, eight assists and 2.9 steals on 54
percent shooting.

And Jordan wasn't even the MVP that year, the trophy going to Johnson instead.

"I think LeBron is an MVP candidate every year," Celtics coach Doc Rivers
said last month. "It's just who he is. He only does everything. So I don't
know what more you can ask from him.

"LeBron, to me, is the favorite every year," Rivers added. "The years he
doesn't win it, it'll usually be because people are just tired of voting for
him. Statistically, if you go all-around game, I don't know how you don't
vote for him every year."

The MVP votes will be revealed Saturday. Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant was
thought to be James' top competition for the MVP, after winning the NBA
scoring title for a third straight season. Chris Paul of the Los Angeles
Clippers, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tony Parker of the San
Antonio Spurs also had seasons that generated some MVP buzz.

James' teammates also lobbied for him to be defensive player of the year this
season, noting that probably no one else in the league routinely plays four
positions on offense while sometimes being asked to guard anyone from a point
guard to a center on defense. James was fourth in that balloting.

"LeBron has been unbelievable," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said before the
playoffs. "He's done it at both ends, every night, offensively and
defensively."

Last season's MVP, Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, appeared in only 39 of
66 regular-season games this season because of a variety of injuries. His
season ended in Game 1 of the Bulls' first-round playoff series against
Philadelphia, when he tore a knee ligament.

Many in the Heat organization thought James should have won the award a year
ago as well, when he dealt with constant fallout from "The Decision" to leave
the Cleveland Cavaliers as a free agent and sign with Miami, where he, Wade
and Chris Bosh formed a "Big Three" that has been celebrated at home and
reviled in just about every other NBA arena.

James has said he played more out of anger and to silence criticism than
anything else last season. So this season, his mindset changed, with him
trying to revert to old ways, first as a superstar-in-waiting at St.
Vincent-St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, then during his
seven seasons with the Cavaliers.

It apparently worked.

"I wanted to get back to who I was as a person," James said.

It's the first time that the Heat will be hosting an MVP celebration.

Shaquille O'Neal won his only MVP award before coming to Miami, and James won
the 2009 and 2010 trophies with the Cavaliers - collecting 225 of a possible
244 first-place votes in those seasons.

The NBA MVP trophy is named for Maurice Podoloff, the league's first
commissioner. Heat assistant coach Bob McAdoo won the award once, for the
Buffalo Braves in 1975.

LeBron James獲得生涯第三座MVP

平均27.1分 7.9籃板 6.2助攻 1.9抄截 53%投籃命中率

明天會正式宣布

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