Here's your MVP with the rest of the 2008 NBA Awards

Yep, the best players of the 2007-08 NBA regular season were finally recognized.

As the second round of the 2008 NBA playoffs heat up, it's that time of the year when the best players in the NBA are finally recognized. Of course, ya'll should know this if you've been following this year's playoff wars but in case you're not, we'll give them to you anyway.

Let's start with the NBA Most Valuable Player of the Year Kobe Bryant. Kobe, with 82 of the possible 125 first-place votes, earned his first ever MVP trophy after 12 years playing in the league that saw him win scoring titles, three NBA world championships and of course, 81 points.

NBA Rookie of the Year Kevin Durant kept Sonic fans packing Seattle despite the fact that the team was nowhere near playoff contention this year and they could be leaving for Oklahoma next season. With overall no.1 draft pick Greg Oden out for the whole year, Durant made sure the Rookie of the Year honors will go to him and so it did.

Next, we have the NBA Sixth Man Manu Ginobili. The San Antonio Spurs are fortunate to have a guy of Ginobili's caliber come off the bench. We all know that the Argentinian can start for any team that he wants but being the consummate teammate that he is, he doesn't mind coming off the bench in San Antonio as long as they keep on winning championships.

And boy, did they won a lot of them.

NBA Defensive Player of the Year Kevin Garnett is hoping that defense really wins championships. KG led the Boston Celtics from having the worst record in the league last year to simply the best team in basketball. The Celtics have become a defensive force because of Garnett and as long as they have gunners like Paul Pierce and sweet shooting Ray Allen, scoring points won't be a problem.

NBA Most Improved Player Hedo Turkoglu has finally become a bona fide star in Orlando, becoming his team's go-to-guy in the fourth quarter. Sure, shooting all those three-point shots for a living sure is a tough way to live but man, he pulls it off.

NBA Head Coach of the Year Byron Scott, together with Chris Paul, transformed the New Orleans Hornets from a lottery-bound team to one of the league's legitimate title contenders this season. Can coach Scott and CP3 keep their Cinderella run going? Wait and see.

Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James and Dwight Howard complete the All-NBA First Team. Yup, it is only fitting to have the top three vote getters in the MVP race (Bryant, Paul and Garnett respectively) go side by side with the league's leading scorer (James) and basketball's hottest commodity (Howard) for the NBA's no.1 team.

If Charlotte ends up with a starting five like that, maybe they'll start winning more games.

Who will win the NBA title in the 2007-08 NBA basketball season? AcesAce Sportsbook has the odds.

San Antonio Spurs EVEN +350

Cleveland Cavaliers EVEN +1,300

Boston Celtics EVEN +450

Detroit Pistons EVEN +1,000

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