Ladies and gentlemen, your 2008 NBA MVP: Kobe Bryant?
The votes are starting to leak out on the NBA’s official site.

Let’s get some more on there. And preferably by voters that can choose a better Rookie of the Year as well.

There’s a screenshot in case it gets taken down. Straight from NBA.com themselves.

Thanks to LABallTalk for the heads up.

Yes, the Los Angeles Lakers dismantled the Denver Nuggets in Game 3.

Yes, the series is over.

Yes, we all probably saw the pre-game antics by Rocky the mascot as he pulled some college basketball stunt, busting out a newspaper to appear disinterested in the Laker introductions, only to be the one who got played as the Lake Show huddled all around him:

My addition to this story:

Peep Sasha Vujacic smack dab in the center of the action. Please tell me he’s not clapping his hands repeatedly and chanting “Her-cu-les! Her-cu-les!”

Or is it the other way around, Kevin Love being Linas Kleiza.

Kleiza preceded Love, but it is fair to say Love has more notoriety.

My buddy Mark brought this up recently, and I figured now would be the time to mention it, seeing as how the Los Angeles Lakers have manhandled the Denver Nuggets to the point where Denver may as well be eliminated in 3 games. The time to bring attention to this is now, while at least one of the aforementioned basketballers is still playing this year.

One wears #42 while the other is #43. Both wear powder blue jerseys on the road. Both can step out to hit the three. They have identical white boy looks.

In summation, they are identical, save for notoriety, country of origin, one jersey number, and body composition (due to K. Love being a fatty)