No hard feelings from LeBron towards his teammate, who thinks someone else should be the MVP.
Kevin Love and LeBron James are admittedly not the best of pals. Whether or not this has anything to do with Love’s vote for MVP this season is unclear and possibly irrelevant. If Love were to cast a vote, it would be for Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook.
LeBron thinks that’s perfectly fine, via Dave McMenamin of ESPN:
“I don’t really think too much of it, really,” James said after Cleveland Cavaliers practice on Tuesday. “I don’t really get involved in that. I think the voters are going to decide who is the MVP. I think what Russ has been doing, his numbers have been pretty crazy keeping those guys afloat in the West in his play. Steph Curry can make a case, for sure, what he’s been doing — James Harden and myself, as well. So, Kevin has his own opinion of who he believes is the MVP. No one should fault him for that.”
Love and Westbrook, as we and LeBron know, were teammates at UCLA. That combined with the insane triple-double fetish make Russell Westbrook a highly credible candidate for Love or anyone else.
For LeBron this was an easy chance to come to his teammate’s defense, a teammate whose true long-term loyalty and comfortability with the Cavaliers is still a wide topic of speculation.
Andrew Bogut made his opinion known in defending his teammate, Stephen Curry, as the undisputed MVP. Love’s admiration for his college teammate edges out his current one in this conversation, but LeBron doesn’t seem too affected by it.
