Did Dan Le Batard Snub LeBron David on His Nba MVP Ballot?

LeBron James acquired 120 first-place votes for the 2013 NBA MVP prize (via ESPN), which will be great...save the fact there have been 121 ballots, one first-place vote likely to Carmelo Anthony. Following a news that LeBron wasn't voted the very first unanimous MVP in league history, everybody lit their torches and sharpened their pitchforks to search for whatever beast could have committed such an atrocity. The typical consensus is that it had been Dan Le Batard, Miami Herald columnist and ESPN speaking head, and the total wrath of the Internet arrived spiraling down in his path. On Sunday, Le Batard wrote an order in the Miami Herald that both panned and praised the proclamation of LeBron while the league's most effective player. It absolutely was an author displaying the fleeting memory of the public and the inability of the press to stick to their weapons three years after "The Decision." Best from Le Batard was this thought: [S]o he rigged the odds of this particular game in his favor by teaming with other stars in a hotter Miami, and this was achieved with peaceful accusations about shortcuts and a legacy using just as certainly as his Cavaliers jerseys. He added: Gone somehow could be the wailing concerning the unfairness of James getting all that help, actually changed by Rose not having enough help and Durant having lost his help and Howard joining with the help and Anthony not sharing with his help. Never an admission, however, not a celebration of LeBron's remarkable season both, thus leading many to think it signaled a vote for somebody else. Obviously, the next Twitter mobbing came quickly thereafter, detailed with Le Batard retweeting a portion of these upset. And finally came the coup de grace: Now this is clearly an incident of focusing on the miniscule bit of bad as far as LeBron's profession is involved, but in reality this is of some value. There's the discussion over whether or not there should be some type of unwritten rule to keep players from winning prizes unanimously, whether the ballots should be produced public (some thing about InternetAanonymity makes me feel keeping the ballots personal is in the very best interest of voters), and whether or not everything is taken too seriously. In the end, LeBron won the honor by way of a large margin, and no difference is made absolutely by a single non-vote. To date there's been no confirmation or denial from Le Batard, although it might in the coming days. Le Batard has thrown out a few photographs of media-types reaching out to him for an interview, and there's been some rebuffing of the assumption that he voted for 'Melo or that he voted at all. Although he's recently been convicted in the eye of the public, so far, the jury is still out. The only thing that remains unchanged after having a day filled with rumors and sudden anger is that LeBron James is still the 2013 NBA MVP.

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