Kobe...MVP?

There has been an overwhelming amount of b****a**ness when discussing the race to league MVP. My feeling is that this honor is bestowed upon players who are not just valuable to their team on a flash basis but who also can be leaders and close out games. But I also feel that it should be based on the time put into becoming the type of player that can do just that. I have seen the award go to Steve Nash not once but twice and to Dirk Nowitzki....Tim Duncan has won the honor once or twice but the player who has been robbed over and over again was finally rewarding for his efforts last season and now stands the chance of being robbed yet again. The idea that Lebron James is in some way more deserving of the league MVP honor is just--a joke. He is a great player, incredibly talented and a good leader on the floor. But if he has to match up with the people who have gotten the honor before him he just doesn't measure up. He is not a game closer nor has he been in the league long enough to have turned into the type of player deserving of such an honor. Because he is not a self-proclaimed assassin people have always seemed to favor him over Kobe- for personal reasons. I dont think these players are even the least bit alike and Lebron has a long way to go before he is as crisp or efficient as Kobe Bryant is when the ball's in his hand at a crucial point in the game when his team needs him the most. Kobe Bryant deserves the award for the second time. He is playing incredible basketball and has lost one of the main foregrounds in the structure that he is building to move him to the NBA finals in Andrew Bynum. And what has he done since then? Put on amazing performance after amazing performance- not scoring wise either but efficiency...making sure that at the end of the night he has a W in the box score.  He is the MVP....