LeBron James Receives Controversial Praise from Frank Vogel

LeBron James is the best player Frank Vogel could ever work with. Well, having LeBron James lead the team didn’t help the Los Angeles Lakers because they have a 31-42 record at the moment. General manager Rob Pelinka brought a lot of new names to LA last offseason, but it didn’t work. NBA experts say that Pelinka should have traded for a few other players at the deadline. He didn’t and the Lakers kept losing games.

LeBron is the best basketball player of all time and he is the right candidate for the MVP award. Vogel would definitely agree that his superstar deserves the individual award.

“He is as deserving for MVP consideration as anybody in the league,” Vogel told the media on March 25. “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 earned the praise for Frank Vogel

Some people didn’t agree with him. Their reactions were pretty rough. Doubters still insist that LeBron James shouldn’t even get the award. They’d go with Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, and a few others. LeBron is averaging 30 points per game while going 52.3% from the field and 35.4 % from beyond the arc. I guess people rely on the current record LA has right now.

U have got to be kidding me right? https://t.co/UX6rkUkLHF

— A.A. 416 ?????? (@Gunner4161) March 25, 2022

Shut up Frank https://t.co/8ufi3hJWHA

— slim charles (@WavyCorleone) March 25, 2022

Y’all 10 games under .500 man stop lmaoooo https://t.co/gzb2Ss02mJ

— ⚜️ (@_Sanctified6) March 25, 2022

His team is eleven games below .500 https://t.co/LB9XLYnZ1f

— NewDemocrat4Life (@reesetheone1) March 25, 2022

Dave McMenamin from ESPN reported that LeBron was listed as a +30,000 longshot to get the award. He is out of the top 10.

The Lakers will probably end up in the play-in tournament but Vogel is an optimist.

“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.”