LeBron James’ ‘MVP’ Season Gets Harsh Reality Check From Frank Vogel

The Los Angeles Lakers have a bad record this season and have a few games left on the schedule. Things are a bit tricky, because the current record may affect players’ chance to win individual awards. Yes, LeBron James is having another MVP season, but he may not get the award.

Lakers head coach Frank Vogel made a few comments about LeBron’s chances to be the MVP for the season. Let’s just say a lot of people share the same opinion. LeBron delivers monster stats every time he hit the floor. However, his teammates didn’t deliver the same performance and this will definitely affect the MVP voting.

“He is as deserving for MVP consideration as anybody in the league,” Vogel said. “I know how the voting goes — the team with the best record or top couple of records usually gets most of those considerations, so the win-loss record definitely would probably hurt him.

“But you can’t tell me that anybody has played a better season than LeBron James has this year.”

LeBron James played elite basketball in his MVP season

LeBron and his teammates will give their best to win more games in the final stage of the season. This is their motivation and hopefully, they will make the best of it.

“The bigger motivator for us down the stretch for us for the final nine games is, how are we playing?” Vogel said. “Are we playing winning basketball? And are we improving our habits well enough to win? Whether it’s the play-in game, or if we’re able to get through the play-in games, to win in the first round. The habits are the biggest motivator, and there’s been some really encouraging signs with how we’ve played.”

Vogel is right about this. LeBron is all in when it comes to winning games. He relies on his team and wants to get the best of his teammates. That’s a priority.