Kobe

Regardless of how you feel about him, the guy is amazing. I'm a firm believer that Chris Paul should have taken the hardware this season (watch him tomorrow night and try to disagree), but it's hard to argue with this choice. It would have been hard to argue with any of the top four candidates. Bryant absolutely should have been the MVP in 2006. I hate to use a Mike Woodson word, but to this day I still believe that Nash over Kobe was a travesty. And, it seems fitting that Kobe would finally win the award this year, when he seems to have taken great strides as a teammate.