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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 2604767, member: 1674"]
I don't think there's much debate that Lebron is the best player in the NBA, but I concur that Harden deserves the MVP this year.

As far as the MVP award goes, unfortunately, Lebron didn't take the season seriously for awhile. For a significant part of the year, Cleveland was statistically better when Lebron was on the bench, and things got so bad there that they had to trade nearly half the team at the trade deadline.

Harden averaged 30.4/8.8/5.4/1.8/0.7 (last two being steals and blocks) compared to Lebron's 27.5/9.1/8.6/1.4/0.9. Harden had the edge in PER, AST%, TO%, USG, win shares, and BPM while basically being tied in TS% and VORP. I mean, he ran up more win shares than Lebron despite playing 10 fewer games and did it in the West, where he led the Rockets to exceed preseason projections by over 10 wins and secure the #1 seed in the conference that the Warriors play in. Cleveland meanwhile came in 4 games below expectation and were a low-seed in the East for the majority of the season.
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