One More Visit to the Nash MVP Topic: I Guess We Were All Sorta Right

A brief rundown of opinions expressed by contributors of this blog:

Gavin said that Steve Nash rules and deserved the MVP. Zuch said he didn't and that Kobe did. Matt said he really couldn't say because he doesn't watch too much NBA but thought Nash didn't seem deserving. Nate said that if Nash won the MVP this year, John Stockton should have won a few. I said that Nash doesn't deserve the amount of credit the press has given him for his team's success.

So we turn to the "Sports Guy" Bill Simmons and his most recent mailbag column. As it turns out, we all had a point--at least according to Simmons, whom I've always considered a pretty credible authority on the NBA.

From his response to the first question, we can conclude that...

...Gavin was right in saying that Nash's value to his team far exceeds his individual abilities and rivals that of other top MVP candidates.
...Zuch was right in saying that Kobe Bryant, all things considered, is a better player (presumably among Simmons's "top five or six" based on everything he's written this year).
...Nate was right in showing that Nash (by comparison to Stockton) would probably have not had a shot in hell of winning the MVP in the past but that (according to Simmons) the game has evolved to favor Nash's particular skill set.
...I was right in asserting that Nash's teammates are quite good independent of Nash's presence, contrary to what many in the press portrayed.
...Matt was right about nothing because he was a pussy and took no hard stance.

Again, I'm basing this entire post on Bill Simmons's take on the subject, but I just thought it was an interesting response that provides a bit of closure on the issue for us Yellow Chair bloggers.