LeBron James on winning the MVP after losing the Finals: ‘I wouldn’t feel good about it at all’ (Ball Don’t Lie)

On Tuesday, in the hours leading up to what could be the final game of the NBA's 2014-15 season, LeBron James confirmed what we all could have guessed back in October, much less after five Finals games. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] He doesn't want an MVP award if he loses. Take the votes and stuff them elsewhere, because if his team's run ends after Game 6 of the NBA Finals, James doesn't want personal consideration for his individual run. From Jason Lloyd at the Akron Beacon-Journal : "I wouldn't feel good about it at all," James said. "At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize." Players have been offering up this sort of (appropriate!) pablum for decades, and most of the time they're genuinely telling the truth. It wouldn't be the strangest thing in the world, however, for a seasonal NBA MVP candidate to find some solace in an MVP award even though his upstart team's 53-win season fell short in the second round. You know it's happened before, and that's just fine. James' setup, as is usually the case even if he's playing alongside healthy All-Stars, is different....