Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am  |  39 responses

D-Wade on the MVP Chatter

“My play is MVP caliber … I know I’m playing as well as anybody in the league, that’s no secret,” he said after Wednesday’s practice. “But I’ve got to continue to help this team win, to get over that hump, where we’re not battling .500, where we’re in the discussion at the end of the year of being one of the top-tier teams in the league. If we do that, then I’ll be in the discussion.”

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  • Fresh Posted: Dec.11 at 11:01 am
    first

  • Khalid Salaam Posted: Dec.11 at 11:05 am
    Truth

  • Justin Walsh Posted: Dec.11 at 11:09 am
    Well said, he addressed every point the PRO Wade MVP people bring up, as well as a point detractors bring up.

  • BothTeamsPlayedHard Posted: Dec.11 at 11:19 am
    Extraordinary swag.

  • Gumdrop Posted: Dec.11 at 11:20 am
    Beasley 4 MVP!

  • MavsFan Posted: Dec.11 at 11:26 am
    Lebron owns your azzzzzzz…

  • riggs Posted: Dec.11 at 11:31 am
    quoted for truth

  • kev Posted: Dec.11 at 11:58 am
    wade is playing great ball, deserves to be in mvp talk. He is right though, the heat need to a least make the playoff’s for that talk to be considered

  • kev Posted: Dec.11 at 11:58 am
    wade is playing great ball, deserves to be in mvp talk. He is right though, the heat need to a least make the playoff’s for that talk to be considered

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Dec.11 at 12:05 pm
    What he should have said: “It’s f*cking December.”

  • Myles Brown Posted: Dec.11 at 12:15 pm
    Truth.

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Dec.11 at 12:42 pm
    He could have also added: “Chances are good I’ll probably miss 30 games anyway. You’ve seen me play before, right?”

  • ciolkstar Posted: Dec.11 at 1:01 pm
    My bad. For some reason I thought this was chauncey talking. DWade’s absolutely right though in this quote, he has played as well as Bron (or anyone else) but Bron isnt even playing in the 4th quarter most nights recently and his team isnt garbage…

  • josesito Posted: Dec.11 at 1:02 pm
    didn’t he also say he was going to give his first MVP to the Wynns?

  • Fresh Posted: Dec.11 at 1:15 pm
    yea thats right although he gets MVP consideration Lebron is still the MVP

  • Tarzan Cooper Posted: Dec.11 at 1:33 pm
    dwade is far better than lebron in every aspect of the game

  • Eboy Posted: Dec.11 at 1:33 pm
    Nice when a superstar understands where his current place in the game is as opposed to other, oversaturated, overglorified ones who get praise due to past merits and inconsequential historical place-in-the-game arguments.

  • Myles Brown Posted: Dec.11 at 1:36 pm
    Nice when people don’t let their silly biases cloud an objective perspective too.

  • Eboy Posted: Dec.11 at 1:40 pm
    Don’t you have a L-Wolves obituary to write? :)

  • Slick Nick Da Ruler Posted: Dec.11 at 1:54 pm
    I think the L-WOlves should get the Houston Comets treatment. And Eboy, oversaturated/overglorified players with past merits implies that you have given praise to their skills in previous seasons. I dont remember if you ever have.

  • jaymes Posted: Dec.11 at 2:02 pm
    Big call Tarzan..

  • Antwonomous Posted: Dec.11 at 4:10 pm
    Sheesh, Rush. Why so tough on Flash?

  • Jessdogg Posted: Dec.11 at 4:22 pm
    d-wade is the lebron of last year. Unbelievable individual stats but his team is rubbish. Saying d-wade is better then bron in every aspect isn’t intelligent. If bron was on that team he would be 32, 8 and 7.

  • Jessdogg Posted: Dec.11 at 4:24 pm
    hell, make that 36, 8, 8, 2, and 2.

  • EC Posted: Dec.11 at 4:26 pm
    I heard wade was gonna dedicate the mvp to starr jones if he won it

  • damascus Posted: Dec.11 at 5:08 pm
    he wont get it at all kobe in 05-06 and 06-07 was droping 40,50,60,and even 81 pts in so much games…that didnt even get him mvp
    he even scored 62 in three quaters,and that wasnt even enough…kobe in 05-06 was the player of the month aveaging like 45pts that month..he even went on a 65-50-60-50pts in a row in 06-07…but it wasnt enough cause of the team… thats why kobe won it last year..he made his team better..and had great numbers across the board…wade has no chance to win mvp this year

  • Moose Posted: Dec.11 at 5:30 pm
    Now only if the Heat WEREN’T barely if not even a playoff team . . .

  • Harlem_World Posted: Dec.11 at 6:34 pm
    I’ll go on record as saying DWade will never win a regular season MVP. Overstating the obvious here, but you’ll never get a year where his team is competitive enough with him playing enough games to get into that elite circle. No disrespect to him, he is a bonafide superstar, but just never going to be a MVP.

  • Harlem_World Posted: Dec.11 at 6:35 pm
    Then again, I would have said he had more of a chance than Dirk, and look what happened there.

  • jose Posted: Dec.11 at 11:35 pm
    If only We had a big . haslem has been holding his own but eventually hell get worn out from fightin bigs. or a good playmaker guard so wade dont have to bring it down all the time

  • jose Posted: Dec.11 at 11:35 pm
    i still give him mvp over superman

  • 007 Posted: Dec.12 at 1:41 am
    didn”t u guys just read what he said..if his team gets over the hump..THEN he’ll be in the discussion.
    u guys are morons..

  • 007 Posted: Dec.12 at 1:42 am
    Harlem_World

  • 007 Posted: Dec.12 at 1:43 am
    How much do you wanna bet on that.?

  • Harlem_World Posted: Dec.12 at 2:00 am
    007, Wade is one of the good guys, and as I said, a bonafide superstar – but he isn’t better than Lebron and hasn’t reached Kobe yet either. He was outstanding at the olympics though – but that counts for zero in league play. I can see Chris Paul getting MVP before Wade. Real talk.

  • mat smith Posted: Dec.12 at 8:43 am
    anyone know who last won the MVP on a team with less than 50 wins?

  • mat smith Posted: Dec.12 at 8:53 am
    found it, 1978-79 NBA Moses Malone Houston 43-39

  • brooklyn Posted: Dec.12 at 6:43 pm
    o0o i know u tite rite now n i kno if wade at least get his team 2 the playoffs he will definetly b M.V.P

  • JOESMOOVE Posted: Dec.15 at 4:44 pm
    Harlem_World. you are a fool. U don’t know the game, it figures, look at your name! I guess you are down with Mase huh? DWade is the best player in the world dude, REALIZE foolio! Joesmoove from THE BX! WHAT!

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