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Lakers star Kobe Bryant wins first MVP award


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Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 2:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 2:41 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant has won his first MVP

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Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant.

award after

leading the Los Angeles Lakers to the best record in the

Western

Conference.

He will receive the trophy Wednesday night from

commissioner

David Stern before the Lakers face Utah in Game 2 of

their

conference semifinal. Bryant was followed in the voting

Tuesday by

Chris Paul, Kevin Garnett and LeBron James.

Bryant entered the season as the league’s two-time

defending

scoring champion but had finished only as high as third

in MVP

voting. He averaged 28.3 points while playing all 82

games despite

tearing a pinkie ligament in February.


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