In this season of extended political primaries, I think the voters should have the opportunity to see the prospective MVP candidates perform in the postseason before casting their final ballots.

我想投票者们在做出自己最后选择之前应该看看各个候选者在季后赛中的表现。

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When Bryant outdueled Paul in the final week of the regular season to help the Lakers claim the Western Conference title, the voting for MVP was completed in rather tidy fashion.

当布莱恩特在常规赛最后一周战胜保罗，宣称西部冠军的时候，竞选MVP已是水到渠成之势。

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Last year, he won the regular season MVP, but lost the final.

去年他获得了常规赛MVP，却输掉了总决赛。

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The game will not be remembered as consistent or especially pretty and the shame of the power outage is that how it will be the biggest XLVII memory, taller than Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco's deserved MVP or even the final NFL game of the attention-grabbing linebacker Ray Lewis, whose retirement announcement wasn't supposed to motivate his team this far.

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They won it on the shooting of Seimone Augustus, who averaged nearly 25 points a game, and after leading the scoring charge in the final game, was named -- not surprisingly -- Finals MVP.

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Cabrera, the All-Star game MVP, was suspended Aug. 15 for a positive test for testosterone and is missing the final 45 games of the regular season.

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