According to the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, LeBron James is going to be handed the NBA’s MVP trophy this afternoon, his reward for a season so dominant the Cavs ran away with the league’s best record, despite being a two-man show. In fact, he won the award so easily that James picked the venue to receive the award himself, choosing his high school gym at Akron’s St. Vincent-St. Mary’s to have the trophy handed over to him.

(Yes, that’s LeBron, but that’s not a Kia. And it probably wasn’t free, either.)

But buried in the story about LeBron’s dominance is this graph from PLAIN DEALER writer Brian Windhorst:

All his Cavs teammates are expected to be there as well as representatives from Kia, which will give him a new car as part of the honor.

Wait a minute, Kia gives MVPs a free car? Is there any chance that an NBA MVP will actually drive a Kia? Any chance? How big a waste is that!

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