Bron was pissed off when he lost the 2020 MVP voting to Giannis.

LeBron James is one of the greatest players in NBA history, if not the greatest. King James has spent his 21 years in the NBA as an elite-level talent and has almost always been part of the MVP conversation every year.

His resume shows that the kid from Akron only has four MVP awards to his name. Given how he dominated the league during his prime, you could argue that ‘Bron could have won more. If you ask him, he thinks he should have more than what’s inside his trophy case.

“I should have more than four, I believe,” LeBron said in a postgame Zoom with reporters in 2021. “I don’t sit around thinking about it or crying about it, or whatever the case may be. I just try to come in the next season and be the MVP and be talked about [for] it again. I bet a lot of the greatest that played this game feel like they should have more as well.”

The first to win 5 straight MVP awards

King James won MVP honors in 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013. He could have been the first player ever to win five straight awards. No player has won the NBA MVP award in four consecutive seasons, and only Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Larry Bird have won it in three straight years.

LeBron had the right to make a claim in 2011. He averaged 26.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.0 assists, and 1.6 steals per game while leading the Miami Heat to a 58-win season. But that was his first season in South Beach, and he was vilified after leaving Cleveland to form a Super Team in Miami.

It did not help that Chicago’s Derrick Rose had a phenomenal season. D-Rose put up 25.0 points, 4.1 rebounds, 7.7 assists, and 1.0 steals per game while leading the Bulls to the best record in the East. Rose won MVP honors, while James finished third behind D-Rose and Dwight Howard.

James also finished 2nd four times

Aside from the 2011 MVP, which many are talking about, LeBron also finished 2nd in the MVP balloting four times. These happened in 2005-06, 2013-14, 2017-18, and 2019-20, where he finished second behind Steve Nash, Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Among the four, James said he was pissed off with the last one.

“It pissed me off because out of 101 votes, I got 16 first-place votes. That’s what pissed me off more than anything. You know, not saying that the winner wasn’t deserving of the MVP. But that pissed me off. And I finished second a lot in my career, either from a championship and now four times as an MVP.” complained James.

As it stands, James is tied with the legendary Wilt Chamberlain with four MVP awards won. The only players to win more are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 6, Bill Russell with 5, and Michael Jordan with 5. With LeBron now playing more seasons after his last MVP award than before, it may be safe to say that four will be his final tally.