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PinnacleSports.com Offers Odds on NBA MVP

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – (PRESS RELEASE) -- The NBA regular season draws to a close this week and the most hotly contested race isn't for playoff positioning, but for the right to be named the league's Most Valuable Player. As the playoffs approach, an unprecedented number of candidates having career years remain in contention to win the NBA's most prestigious award. With this year's MVP race still wide open, PinnacleSports.com today announced odds on who the voters will choose as the 2006 Most Valuable Player in the NBA.

The largest sports betting site on the Internet, PinnacleSports.com has created individual odds on five of the NBA's elite being named the league's best player for the 2005-06 season. The odds currently favor the league's top scorer adding his first MVP to his trophy case, as the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant is a 5/6 favorite to win the award. Last year's winner, the Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash is currently 7/2 to join the exclusive list of repeat MVP winners. PinnacleSports.com lists Cleveland Cavaliers' 21-year-old phenomenon LeBron James at 5/1 odds to become the youngest most valuable player in NBA history. Despite leading their teams to two of the best records in the league, PinnacleSports.com lists both the Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki and Pistons' Chauncey Billups as 9/1 underdogs to win the esteemed award.

"Although the Lakers are battling for one of the final playoff spots in the Western Conference, Kobe Bryant has been dominanting all season long, seemingly scoring at will against every opponent to come his way," said Simon Noble of PinnacleSports.com. "What Bryant is doing is truly historic, scoring 40 or more points 27 times this season including an 81-point haul in January that ranks second all-time. While one can certainly make a case for James, Nash, Nowitzki or Billups to win the award, Kobe's 2005-06 campaign must surely be more MVP-worthy."

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