<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Shapecity @ Apr 28 2008, 12:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>There was a writer on the DP show the other day who also said Kobe will be the MVP this year based on the writers he's spoken with. Kobe will end up with majority vote.</div> <span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:100%">Its the shapester!!!! </span>
ESPN is saying that Kobe has won the MVP Award <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant has won the NBA's MVP award for the first time, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site Friday night, citing anonymous sources familiar with the outcome of voting by media members. The newspaper reported that commissioner David Stern will be in Los Angeles next week to present the trophy to Bryant. "We have not been told anything by the league," Lakers spokesman John Black told The Associated Press. Bryant, who entered the season as the league's two-time defending scoring champion, had third in the MVP voting twice -- after the 2002-03 campaign, when he averaged 30 points for the first time, and again last season, when Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki won the award.</div>
