Did John Le Batard Snub LeBron David on His Nba MVP Ballot?

LeBron James acquired 120 first-place votes for the 2013 NBA MVP award (via ESPN), which is great...save the fact that there have been 121 ballots, one first-place vote going to Carmelo Anthony. Following a news that LeBron wasn't voted the very first unanimous MVP in league history, every one lit their torches and pointed their pitchforks to look for whatever beast may have committed this atrocity. The general agreement is that it absolutely was Dan Le Batard, Miami Herald columnist and ESPN speaking head, and the entire wrath of the Net came spiraling down in his path. On Sunday, Le Batard wrote a line in the Miami Herald that both panned and recognized the proclamation of LeBron while the league's most effective player. It had been a writer featuring the memory of the general public and the inability of the media to adhere to their guns 3 years after "The Decision." Most fascinating from Le Batard was this thought: [S]o he rigged the odds of this particular game in his favor by teaming with other stars in a warmer Miami, and this was achieved with loving allegations about shortcuts and a heritage using just as surely as his Cavaliers jerseys. He added: Gone somehow may be the wailing about the unfairness of James getting all that help, actually replaced by Rose not having enough help and Durant having dropped his help and Howard crawling with the wrong help and Anthony not sharing with his help. Never an entrance, although not a celebration of LeBron's remarkable year possibly, thereby leading many to believe it signaled a vote for somebody else. Obviously, the next Twitter mobbing came quickly thereafter, complete with Le Batard retweeting a percentage of those upset. And finally came the coup de grace: Now this is obviously an instance of concentrating on the minuscule bit of negative as far as LeBron's profession is concerned, but in reality this is of some value. There's the discussion over whether or not there should be some kind of unwritten rule to keep participants from winning honors unanimously, whether the ballots should be made public (some thing about InternetAanonymity makes me think keeping the ballots individual is in the very best interest of voters), and whether or not everything is taken too seriously. In the end, the award was won by LeBron by a big profit, and just one non-vote makes zero difference. Even though it may in the coming days, up to now there's been no confirmation or denial from Le Batard. Le Batard has thrown out several images of media-types reaching out to him for a meeting, and there's been some rebuffing of the assumption that he voted for 'Melo or that he voted at all. Up to now, the jury continues to be out, although he is already been convicted in the eye of the public. The one thing that remains unchanged after a time high in rumors and sudden rage is that LeBron James continues to be the 2013 NBA MVP.