At the time of the posting, Dirk Nowitzki is leading the Mavs to a 59-11 mark.

Steve Nash and his Canadianness has Phoenix with a 53-17 mark and the Pacific Division title already.

Tim Duncan and his lack of facial expression has the Spurs finally playing defense like we know they can, and have killed their last two opponents by a combined margin of 500 points.

The Leastern Conferance, eh.

Lebron took half the season off, D-wade was hurt the other half, Shaq is fat, and everyone's favorite NBA blogger Gilberto is awesome and hardcore, but his team only has 38 wins to show for it.

A lot of talk is centering on the race between Dirk and Nash, former teammates and best pals who are leading the NBA's two best teams.  

How can Dirk not win it? He is leading the NBA's best team, and making his teammates better.

How can Nash not win it?  He is leading the NBA's best offesnvie show, and showing the Jerks like Pat Riley that his famous 70-65 ballgames are a thing of the past.

My debate is this:  How CAN Nash win it again?

He is already two time defending NBA MVP.  In my opinion, not rightfully either time.  However, his numbers this year are better than during his two MVP years.

But, making him a three-time MVP?  Back to back to back?

Three time MVP's in a row:  Bill Russell (11 rings), Wilt Chamberlain (2 Rings) and Larry Bird (3 Rings).  

Some three time total MVP's are the above three, Kareem, MJ, Magic.

What seperates the above names from Nash is winning Championships.  No doubt Nash makes his teammates better, but does he win?  Back to back Western Conferance finals appearances look good, but where is the finals trip?  Where is the ring?

One time MVP's dont have as much pressure to preform.  Do you know guys like Karl Malone and Kevin Garnett?  And I am not including Shaq in this, because he has 4 rings, and has gotten screwed more than a few times.

I truly lay hate upon Ric Bucher for a quiet little debate in an ESPN NBA show two years ago, when he went out on a limb and said his MVP vote would go Nash for leading the NBA's best offense.  Unfortunately, the rest of the Sportwriter Sheep hopped on the bandwagon, and then were stuck last year when his numbers were better without Amare.  

What do they do this year?  His numbers are even better than the first two MVP years, and he has been flirting with that 20 ppg, 50%/40%/90% mark only Mr Bird has accomplished.

While we are mired in an unfortunately long season, I really dont want icing on the cake to be another Nash MVP.