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Good point, the lakers will have their work cut out for them, but we actually do match up with them. Kobe-Wade, Artest-Lebron, and Pau-Bosh. I'm not saying those are all equal matchups but there aren't any real mismatches there besides that Lebron will be able to play off Artest and help out others on defense which makes the difference. So if Artest works on his shot over the offseason and Lebron has to play him straight up its anyones guess who would win as of now without actually seeing them play. Teams that lack mutiple, tall, and athletic defenders won't stand a chance against the Heat, but Lakers do have that. Of course the season hasn't started yet and we don't know everyone who is going to be on the Heat roster so all of this is just guess work untill we see the two squads meet.

Dwight Howard will destroy them in the playoffs.

Yeah, with his awesome post-up game. I'm sure he'll get 10-12 points per game!!! AMAZING!

washington wizards john wall #1

I would like to go on record and say that Stephen Curry wins the MVP!!!!!

also, i think every player on the heat roster will average 4 assists per game minimum, and the team averages 135 ppg

Those are two very bold statements, the first being less bold :) Curry is the man.

Durant probably wins MVP this season.

I say Kobe, how can you let him have fewer MVP awards than Steve Nash its just an embarrassment to the award.

It's not Most Talented Player...

It's not Best Player...

It's not Biggest Douche...

Any of those awards, Kobe and LeBron would battle for each year and Nash wouldn't stand a chance.

However, MVP does stand for Most Valuable Player.

The Phoenix Suns went from a 20-win team to a perennial playoff team with the simple addition of Steve Nash. Sure, if you take Kobe away from the Lakers, they are not as good...but if you take Nash away from the Suns in any of his years on the team, they instantly go down like 25-30 wins. The implication that he didn't deserve his MVP awards illustrates a failure to understand the meaning of the award.

I think another way to look at instead of talking about how bad Phoenix would be without Nash, check out what Nash has done for every free agent that has joined the team...With the exception of Marcus Banks, who just sucks, every free agent who came to Phoenix with Nash, ended up having a career year for themselves in one way or another. Watch what happens to Amare now that he doesnt have Nash....Check out Tim Thomas, Raja Bell (so far) Diaw, when they left Phoenix, not near the same results. Even Eddie House who has had his moments in Boston, wasn't nearly as consistent as he was with Nash and the Suns. Q Richardson? Same thing. Nash makes everyone around him better. Thats what makes him so valueable. Shaq was probably the best player in Phoenix when he played here, but ironically he stiffled Nash's game and made him less effective. That was an interesting situation. Everyone points to Marions age as a reason for his decline, but for a guy who averaged 14 points a game, he was spoon fed 10 of them each and ever game from Nash. That said, while Kobe doesn't make many guys around him better, he does spoon feed them Championships...so thats valuable too ;-)