James Second Place For The MVP

James came in second place for the MVP award. Steve Nash — the maestro of the fast, frenetic Phoenix Suns — beat James by a comfortable margin in results announced Sunday. Nash received 57 first-place votes and 924 points overall from a panel of 125 sports writers and broadcasters in the United States and Canada. James had 16 first-place votes and 688 points overall. But at 21, though, James knows he will have many more opportunities.

“It would have been nice of course to put another trophy in my house, in my showcase,” he said from Auburn Hills, Mich., before the Cavaliers played the Detroit Pistons. “But it’s something I’m going to keep working hard for. I can’t dwell on not being named MVP.”