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04-21-2005, 03:57 PM #21
Why doesnt Dirk Nowitzki get talked about more in the MVP race? He is having the best season of his career. He is the only one in the top ten in both rebounding and scoring. The only repeat winner in player of the month honors in the Western Conference. Many didn't expect the Mavericks to win more games than did last year after loosing Steve Nash and changing most of the roster, but they did. They won the second most in franchise history. Someone please explain to me why he doesn't get talked about more.
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04-21-2005, 11:01 PM #22
I heard mentions of Dirk sometimes as a minor candidate earlier before it boiled down to Shaq and Nash. I recall one web site having him listed along with Amare Stoudemire, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, and a few others. While I don't think he's had the same impact as Shaq and Nash, I do think that he should be getting more attention.
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04-25-2005, 06:25 PM #23
none of you get it lebron james is one of the only people to average 27 7 7 third league in scoring top 20 in assists top 50 in boards and top 3 in steals wow!
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04-25-2005, 08:31 PM #24
Yeah well... Where's Lebron now that the Playoffs are on? Oh right, he's watching from home on TV... Don't get me wrong, LJ will be MVP in a few years but not yet...
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04-26-2005, 01:30 PM #25
Agreed...I am a big LeBron fan, but it's too early in his career and his team needs more work. MVPs are almost always given to players on high-achieving teams - a quick historical check of MVP winners reveals this.
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05-06-2005, 05:20 AM #26
I think Shaq deserves mvp. No matter what team he plays for he makes them one of the best in the conference. Shaq averaged 22.9 points, 10.4 rebounds in just a tad over 34 MPG. He was in the top 6 in 3 different statistical categories [FG % (1st), rebs. (6th), blocks (6th)]. He was #12 in PPG.
Nash, on the other hand, led the league in assists and was 6th in 3 point %. If I was to pick anyone from the Suns who deserved MVP, I'd say Amare Stoudamire. He's made himself a presence in the paint and stepped up big for them this year. I also don't think all of the Suns' success is due to Nash. They also picked up Quentin Richardson and he's been playing very nice this season.
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05-06-2005, 05:36 AM #27
He was injured like 4 times and couldn't play for about 10 games or more that doesn't seem MVP quality!
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05-06-2005, 04:51 PM #28
ESPN is reporting that Nash officially won the MVP.
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05-06-2005, 06:54 PM #29
I'm glad they gave it to someone other then Shaq! Hopefully ESPN is right. Steve Nash deserves to win the award.
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05-06-2005, 08:33 PM #30
here is the story
Steve Nash will be awarded the NBA's Most Valuable Player on Sunday, ESPN.com has learned.
Nash has edged Miami center Shaquille O'Neal to become just the fourth point in MVP history to win the league's highest individual honor, according to sources familiar with the results. The others are Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson and Bob Cousy.
The official announcement will come at halftime of ABC's 3 p.m. ET playoff game.
O'Neal, three times an NBA Finals MVP, has won the regular-season MVP trophy just once in his 13 seasons. Apparently tipping this vote in Nash's favor was the Suns' 33-game improvement -- from 29 wins to a league-leading 62 wins -- after signing Nash away from the Dallas Mavericks in the offseason.
Nash's previous best MVP showing was 14th place in 2002.
With Nash flanked by the athletic finishing of fellow All-Stars Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion, Phoenix became just the second team in NBA annals to win at least 60 games after a 50-loss season. The first? The Boston Celtics in Larry Bird's rookie season of 1979-80.
But Nash is defying history to beat out O'Neal, and not simply because he had only one scholarship offer from a Division I university -- Santa Clara -- as a slight Canadian teen-ager in British Columbia.
Allen Iverson, the NBA's 2001 MVP as a shooting guard, is the only player shorter than 6-foot-6 in the past four decades to win the award. Nash also becomes the first MVP since Portland's Bill Walton in 1978 to average less than 20 points per game. His 15.5-point scoring average for the Suns is the third-lowest all-time for an MVP, ahead of only Washington's Wes Unseld (13.8 ppg in 1969) and Boston's Bill Russell (14.1 ppg in 1965).
Nash, though, did lead the league in assists (11.5 apg) by a wide margin for a Suns team that averaged a league-leading 110 points per game.
Phoenix swept Memphis 4-0 in a first-round series and awaits the Dallas-Houston winner in the second round, raising the possibility of an emotional series against the team he left last summer.
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