MVP-Most Valuable Point

Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo and Chicago Bulls point
guard Derrick Rose are both making a case for being their
team's most valuable point guard.

I'm going to try something here. I know that usually I can be quite biased when it comes to this blog, but who cares. I'm a Chicago sports fan and I'm not going to apologize to anyone because of it. I guess today I'll try to give the readers of this blog (all 65,000 of you, *wishful thinking*) an unbiased opinion of who's the most valuable point guard in the NBA.

As of now, the top rated point guards in the NBA are Rajon Rondo, Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, and Steve Nash and if I left someone out....YES it's on purpose. When measuring who is the most valuable player of the league, "experts" usually add up stats and determine their vote based off of numbers instead of also considering the value of the player to the team and the league. Because I feel like the players value to the team is the most important statistic, allow me to bring this into the equation when figuring out who the best player is.

As of now, Steve Nash is a great player but for the sake of being consistent with considering the value of the player to the team, Nash can be eliminated from this equation. The Phoenix Suns have made the playoffs every year except in 2009, but they have never managed to get past the powers in the Western Conference. Although Steve Nash provides a consistent scoring and passing effort every night, he has never led his team to a title and people are getting bored by his style of play now that he's aging.

Leading your team to a title after six years of attempts is important in this league. I sympathize with Nash because he will definitely go down in history as one of the best point guards of all time but still be ring-less. It happens to the best of them...Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone never won a title but are considered some of the greatest players in history. They manage to display their bitterness every time they get the chance.

Chris Paul is a great point guard and a valuable asset to the New Orleans Hornets, leading them to the playoffs in back to back seasons. This season he's averaged 20 points, six assists and nine rebounds which are pretty solid statistics to keep him in the running for top three consideration at the point guard position.

The final two are the players everyone is comparing this season. Two players with overwhelming speed, the court vision of an entire team put together and endurance that can allow a coach to play them 48 minutes a game. Rajon Rondo and Derrick Rose are dazzling the media and fans with their style of play which is valuable for their team as well as the league. Rondo has made a name for himself after leading the Boston Celtics in the playoffs the past three seasons. This season he's averaging 10.7 points, six rebounds and 16.7 assists which is an out of this world stat. You have to ask yourself, where would the Boston Celtics be without Rondo? Could Nate Robinson lead the team? Maybe, but not with the same intensity displayed by Rondo.

My hometown boy! Derrick Rose. No guard impresses the NBA with style and improvements more than Rose. This season, he's improved his shooting and his court vision seems to improve every game with limited turnovers. Rose has led the team to two postseason appearances but was put out in 2009 by the Boston Celtics in a series analysts describe as one of the best series of all-time and in 2010 by the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games. His explosiveness and style of play excites not only Bull fans but fans of the NBA(Derrick Rose highlights here).

I look at Chris Paul as the number three point guard. He's valuable to his team, but doesn't contribute much to the league. So, it's between Derrick Rose and Rajon Rondo. Rondo, of course, has the upper hand because he's led his team to a championship. Rose has a jump shot that is an upper hand on Rondo which can lead his team to game winning shots in the clutch, but this hasn't been seen as of yet. Although the Bulls would be lost without Derrick Rose, his presence hasn't led the team to a championship yet.

It's a difficult decision to make and even harder to go against the hometown player but, Rajon Rondo is the best point guard in the league. Rose is a game-winner in the playoffs away from taking this title from Rondo but until that happens, the Celtics point guard gets my vote (Rondo highlights here).