Much of the talk after game 5 has not been about what Golden State needs to do to close out Cleveland or what Cleveland needs to do to avoid elimination. Instead the focus has been on will Lebron James still win Finals MVP even if the Cavs were to lose the series. Golden State Warriors beat writer Diamond Leung brings us King James thoughts on the MVP.
LeBron James on if he wins MVP and the Cavaliers lose: "I wouldn't feel good about it at all."
— Diamond Leung (@diamond83) June 16, 2015
Lebron knows that the finals MVP in a loss would be like receiving a participation ribbon for good effort. Lebron is chasing 6 rings of Jordan and the 5 rings of Kobe because when we look back on history we remember the rings. We can argue about the fairness of that but it remains to be the standard.