mvp!

Cleveland's LeBron James has won the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award for the 2nd year in a row, the Associated Press reports.

Only nine other players in history have won the award in consecutive seasons:

Bill Russell (won it 3 straight years)
Wilt Chamberlain (won it 3 straight years)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Moses Malone
Larry Bird (won it 3 straight years)
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Tim Duncan
Steve Nash

Add James to that list, and you might not have the ten greatest players to ever play the game, but if you could take those ten guys in their prime and put them on a team facing any other ten players, past or present, in their prime... well, if only you could actually do that!

Still, think of some of the names not on that list: Kobe Bryant; Shaquille O'Neal; Julius Erving; Karl Malone, who won it twice, but not in consecutive years; Allen Iverson; Charles Barkley; Hakeem Olajuwon; Bill Walton; Bob McAdoo; Bob Pettit.

Think those ten guys could give the other ten guys a good game? I do.