you think jason kidd should have won at least one mvp when he carries new jersey nets to 2 straight finals?

Question

when the nets traded marbury for jason kidd, j-kidd bring the nets to the finals twice lost both to spurs and lakers, but did not won mvp award. however, steve nash won 2 mvp when the best he can do is bring the suns to game 5 west finals

when the nets traded marbury for jason kidd, j-kidd bring the nets to the finals twice lost both to spurs and lakers, but did not won mvp award. however, steve nash won 2 mvp when the best he can do is bring the suns to game 5 west finals / guys i only compare to what steve nash accomplished to his phoenix suns and kidd to the nets during those 2 season. first before phoenix got nash they are a playoff bound team while the nets are always at the bottom before kidd. second nash give exciting plays to his suns while kidd bring the nets to won the eastern conf and bring nets to the finals twice and third nash rewarded with 2 mvp kidd none. thats all

-stockton did not win mvp during his prime because of karl malone much as scottie pippen did not because of michael jordan and kobe because of shaq, if u bring this up we will have more comparison to discuss with-

even though the west is more competitive, nash and the suns still losing to the tough teams out west (spurs, mavericks, jazz) except of course the last 2 blow out wins against the mavs, but still they find it hard to win against the tough teams out west while they been winning games in east rigth?!? much like the nets on those two years....

what jason kidd did to the nets on those 2 years is quite similar to what nash did to suns... from the bottom to the top... but the reward for the player responsible is not, 2 mvp for nash, 0 for kidd. thats it! no comparison for other great players hall of famers who did not win mvp. they have diff story.

Answer 1

Why do you care?

Answer 2

Unfortunately, there's only one MVP in the NBA per year...

Perhaps if the MVP award was given to a player in each conference, Kidd would have won it at least once. Baseball has two separate MVP awards for the AL and NL, and with inter-league play, the leagues have lost their identities. But in the NBA, there's just one for the entire league.

Kidd did finish 2nd to Tim Duncan in the 2002 award voting:

The final point totals for the top 5 in 2002 were:

1 Tim Duncan / 57 first place votes / 954 points
2 Jason Kidd / 45 first place votes / 897 points
3 Shaquille O'Neal / 15 first place votes / 696 points
4 Tracy McGrady / 7 first place votes / 390 points
5 Kobe Bryant / 1 first place vote / 98 points


In the 2003 voting, Duncan edged out Kevin Garnett by a similar margin, but Kidd fell to 9th in the voting, with only 31 total points (Duncan had 962, Garnett 871, Bryant 496, McGrady 427, and then a big drop off to Shaq, with 126).

I can't really argue against Duncan winning those awards, but Kidd had a great year in 2002, he just fell a little short. Also, the award is voted on before the start of the playoffs, so the voters would not have necessarily anticipated the rise of the Nets in the 2002 and 2003 postseasons, in spite of the fact that they were the #1 seed in the East in 2002 and the #2 seed in 2003.

A previous post made some excellent points about great players not winning MVP awards (Stockton, West, etc). There's only room for one MVP per year, and Jason just didn't quite make it (which is true of a lot of all time greats).

Answer 3

Nash has more impressive statistics, for one thing.

However, in my opinion the main reason would simply be the fact that the West has been so dominant in the last few years. Yes, the East has won titles but overall the West is much stronger and therefore much more competitive. Bringing a team in the West to the conference finals is a lot more impressive than the same feat in the East.

Look at this year's statistics. The best in the East is Detroit, with a .638 record. There is only one other team above .600.

Then you have the West, in which the top team has a record of .825 and there are 5 total teams above .600, two of them being over .700.

Overall, Nash has more impressive statistics and its a more difficult feat to bring a team from the West into the finals than it is in the East.

Answer 4

Agree with u that Kidd should have won the 2002 season. That season, the Nets had their best season in their NBA history. The team won its first Atlantic Division title, finishing the regular season at 52-30 and were seeded first in Eastern Conference and faced Indiana in the first round of the 2002 NBA Playoffs.

Yes I know that MVP is awarded for regular season and very obvious that without Kidd in that season, Nets would be again at the bottom of the league. He made people like Todd MacCulloch looks like an all star! Not to mention Kenyon Martin who got maximum contract from Denver becos of Kidd's pinpoint passes!

I hope Kidd will get more triple doubles and gets the Nets to the Finals this year to compensate with a Final MVP!

Answer 5

He might be better than Steve Nash, but think about this: John Stockton was way better than Kidd and Nash, and he's never even been a serious MVP contender. Look back further, and you would see Jerry West who never won the award. West was better than those 3 and, together with Baylor (another non-MVP winner), carried the Lakers almost every year to the Finals only to lose to Russell's Celtics.

Answer 6

Definitely! Kidd should have been the 2003 MVP. Imagine this a non-title contender the previous year does the impossible, making an apperance in the Finals. This 1995 ROY have taken the role of take charge guy during the season, definitely a mark of a MVP.

Answer 7

i think of to be an MVP you alter the seem and experience of your group thoroughly, Jason Kidd performs on a collection with a superb type of stars and that they nevertheless are not between the NBA elite. The Suns are excellent with Nash. i might want to renowned in how a lot of those 10 video games that Kidd had a triple double did the Nets surely win.

Answer 8

MVP for that case is based on regular season performance. Not in the playoffs.. They gonna say after the 82 games played all are round-up back to zero.. Unluckily Kidd is always an inch away from the MVP behind Duncan and the other i could not remember..

Answer 9

difinently. the guys amazing. he has almost 90 triple-doubles

Answer 10

he should have... he is way better than nash