So as you know, kobe bryant won the mvp award in 2008. I believe chris paul should have won it. First let’s talk stats.

Kobe

Scoring- 2nd, 28.3 ppg

Assisting- 23rd, 5.4 apg

Rebounding- 51st, 6.3 rpg

Blocking- 87th, 0.5 bpg

Stealing- 8th, 1.8 spg

Chris

Scoring- 19th, 21.1 ppg

Assisting- 1st, 11.6 apg

Rebounding- 128th, 4 rpg

Blocking- 242nd, 0.1 bpg

Stealing- 1st, 2.7 spg

Already we can see that paul lead the league in 2 statistical categories and kobe didn’t lead the league in any. We also see that chris has 3 averages in the top 20 of the league. Kobe has one, scoring.

Shooting efficiency

Chris Paul

fg%- 48.8% (38th)

3pt%- 36.9% (54th)

ft%- 85.1% (21st)

2p%- 51.6% (37th)

Kobe Bryant

fg%- 45.9% (69th)

3pt%- 36.1% (59th)

ft%- 84% (30th)

2p%- 49% (72nd)

However, it is important to note their true shooting and effective field goal percentages

cp3 efg%- 52.4%

cp3 ts%- 57.6%

kobe efg%- 50.3%

kobe ts%- 57.6%

Now, lets look at how efficiently they help run the offense with passing

Chris paul assists per turnover: 4.6 (elite)

kobe assists per turnover: 1.72 (decent)

Yes, kobe was a higher volume scorer, but come on 4.6 is the best of the best.

Cp3 was third in the league assists per turnover and the first two averaged at least 3 less assists than chris paul and about 10 less points.

Advanced

chris paul

ws: 17.8 (1st)

ows: 13.2 (1st)

dws: 4.6 (10th)

obpm: 7.2 (2nd)

dpbm: 3.2 (4th)

bpm: 10.4 (2nd)

vorp: 9.3 (2nd)

per: 28.3 (2nd)

cp3 is top 10 in all these categories now lets see kobe

kobe

ws: 13.8 (4th)

ows: 9.5 (5th)

dws: 4.3 (14th)

obpm: 5.2 (7th)

dbpm: 0.6 (51st)

bpm: 5.8 (7th)

vorp: 6.3 (3rd)

per: 24.2 (8th)

If i got any stats wrong please let me know