LeBron James Was The Class Of The NBA This Season

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		Tech Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics International Video Latest Monday, May 14, 2012 SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: LeBron James Was The Class Of The NBA This Season LeBron James won his third NBA Most Valuable Player award this weekend, collecting 85 of the 121 first-place votes. However, there was some debate on who truly deserved the award as five different players received first-place votes. If we look at this season's Win Shares (measures the overall contribution of a player and calculates how many wins that player was worth to his team) we see that there shouldn't have been much debate at all, as LeBron easily outpaced the competition. In fact, if we rank the players by Win Shares per 48 minutes, LeBron had the tenth best season (.2983 per 48) in the history of the NBA, and now has three of the top ten seasons ever. Here are this season's best all-around players. Numbers in parentheses represent where that player finished in the MVP voting. Fifteen players appeared on at least one of the ballots and each ballot listed five players (NV=no MVP votes)... All data via Basketball-Reference.com Read » Also On Sports Page Today: The Toronto Raptors Are Seriously Interested In Signing Jeremy Lin Everybody Is Wrong About Metta World Peace Trash-Talking The Guy Who He Concussed Last Month The Final Day Of The English Premier League Season Was The Craziest Thing We've Seen All Year Tom Brady Says He'll Play Football Until He's Not Wanted Anymore Advertisement SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: SEC Schools Fall Behind When It Comes To TV Revenue SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The Red Sox Are In Big Trouble SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Can Josh Hamilton Catch Barry Bonds? Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Sports Page RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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