I'm confused, there is no way Cleveland was a "super-team" in the sense that they were stacked, they won a lot of regular season games but so did Dallas for years. But Bron still won the MVP. Of course you have to have team success, but all those wins in the EC weren't THAT impressive when you see how bad the Conference was. (I'd have to see their record against the west). A better argument would have been, imo, that with that same team in the West, Bron is a superstar on a team playing for 4-6th seed.
Nash won two MVPs with...Amar'e, Olajuwon with Vernon Maxwell and Drexler, Dirk with Jason Terry, I mean we can flip the great teamate argument the other way. I don't believe anyone lately has had such a stacked team from top to bottom as Bron, I might be wrong but I don't see it.
Kobe was hated only because he's Kobe, he's been hated since he came in the league, and hated whether he won or not, so he's not even in the discussion imo. T-Mac is ridiculed for that statement of "finally being in the 2nd round" and for becoming
, no one HATES T-Mac. And never have I heard people talk slick about Garnett when he was in Minny, if anything people saw him as a "good guy" who was "loyal" (remember that teary-eyed intw with Thompson?), if anything people started hating when he won in Boston.