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I. Cold

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And kobe coming in....5th place.. lmao@the kobe dickriders here predicting him getting MVP.

here's the article. read it and weap

Tribune poll: Nash appears headed toward MVP
By Jerry Brown, Tribune
April 26, 2006
With nearly 60 percent of the ballots counted in early exit polls, it appears Steve Nash is headed for his second straight Most Valuable Player award. In a Tribune survey of 75 of the 127 writers and broadcasters who cast official MVP ballots with the NBA, Nash has a sizable lead over Cleveland’s LeBron James for the award.

Nash received 30 first-place votes, 24 second-place votes and 549 total points in the Tribune survey, giving him a 141-point lead over James — who has 408 points but only garnered 11 first-place votes.

Dirk Nowitzki ranks third in total points (370) and second in first-place votes (12), but the Dallas Morning News, citing several league sources, reported Tuesday that Nowitzki did not win the MVP award. Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, the league’s leading scorer at 35.4 points per game, received 11 first-place votes and ranks fourth in total points (279), but 48 of the 75 writers polled had Bryant listed either fourth (18), fifth (17) or left him off their ballots completely (13).

Chauncey Billups of Detroit placed fifth in the survey with 246 points and 10 first-place votes.

It would be Nash’s second straight MVP award, placing him among NBA royalty — only eight other players have won back-to-back MVPs.

With Amaré Stoudemire injured and an almost completely different cast of characters — one that was picked by many to struggle to reach the playoffs — around him, Nash pushed and prodded the Suns to a 54-win season and befuddled the naysayers again.

In voting for Nash, Hubie Brown, the broadcast analyst and former coach, praised Nash’s leadership in light of the lost season of Stoudemire and the injury to big man Kurt Thomas.

“When you look at what Nash has done with six new players. . . They won their division, and he’s having his best year.

“That alone tells you what he’s done.”

Because of Nash, “All of their players get better looks. The shot clock is never in a bad situation. He makes it happen.”

Playing the second-most minutes in his career (2,796), the 32-year-old Nash set career highs in several categories including scoring (18.8 per game), rebounds (4.2), field goal percentage (.512), free throw percentage (a leagueleading and franchise record .921) and minutes per game (35.4). Nash also led the league in assists for a second straight season (10.5), becoming the first NBA player since Jason Kidd (with the Suns in 1998-99, 1999-2000) to average 10 or more assists in backto-back seasons.

Nash became only the fourth player in NBA history to shoot at least 50 percent from the field, at least 40 percent from 3-point range (.438, sixth in the NBA) and at least 90 percent from the line — joining Larry Bird (twice, 1986-87 and 1987-88), Reggie Miller (1993-94) and Mark Price (1988-89).

For the fifth consecutive season — three years with Dallas (2001-04) and two with Phoenix (2004-06) — a team with Nash at point guard led the NBA in scoring.
 
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5. Steve Nash
Kudos to him for increasing his scoring and seamlessly integrating seven new teammates into Phoenix's offense; in many ways, he was better than last season. He's the only current player whose unselfishness seems to transfer (almost by osmosis) to everyone else on his team. On the flip side, he's even worse defensively than last season; just in the past two months, I watched Shaun Livingston, Delonte West and Kidd completely outplay him in separate games, capped off by Billups simply CREMATING him in Detroit two Sundays ago. Would an MVP ever get decimated like that by someone who plays the same position? Please.

Put it this way: Nash was a cute choice last season, mainly because none of the other candidates stood out, and I could see why someone would have been swayed. (It was like ordering one of those fancy foreign beers at a bar, the ones in the heavy green bottles with the 13-letter name that you can't pronounce, only someone else is drinking it, so you say to yourself, "Ah, screw it, I'm tired of the beer I always drink, lemme try one of those.") But this year? I'm not saying he should be ignored, but if you actually end up picking him, either you're not watching enough basketball or you just want to see a white guy win back-to-back MVP's.
 
I. Cold

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^^obviously that writer had his head up his ass when he made that article...because the 75% of nba analysts, owners, coaches, and alumni (whos jobs it is to figure this stuff out) who voted for Nash for 1st place thought otherwise
 
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Here's another one for ya....From Daily Dime magazine...

Word leaked Wednesday morning that Steve Nash will be named this year's MVP. While it won't be officially announced for some time, it looks like it's a done deal. And we think it's absurd.

The fact that Steve Nash is going to win the award isn't the problem. The problem is that Kobe Bryant didn't. Honestly, what more could Kobe have done this season to win the MVP? It's a joke. And what makes the whole thing even more outrageous is that his losing out is clearly personal. To be blunt, he didn't win it because the people with the votes just don't like him. And that's a shame.

Heading into this season, if someone asked you to make a list of what Kobe would have to do in the 2005-06 NBA season to win the MVP, what would you have said? Something like that Kobe would have to show that he's the best player in the NBA and he would have to take that god-awful Lakers team to the playoffs — not an easy thing to do in the Western Conference.

So what did Kobe do? Here are three numbers: 81, 62 and 35.4. The 81-point explosion against the Raptors in January completely eclipsed the fact that he gave the Mavericks 62 in just three quarters a few weeks prior. His 35.4 points per game, easily enough to secure him the league's scoring title, was the eighth-highest single-season scoring average in league history and the most since MJ put up 37.1 points per game back in '87. No. 8 put together two separate streaks this season where he scored 40 or more points in four straight games.

Let's be blunt: Kobe Bryant is clearly the best basketball player in the world.

We've said it so many times: Steve Nash's supporting cast includes Shawn Marion (a guy who should have received some MVP attention) and Boris Diaw (potentially the NBA's Most Improved Player).

But if you substituted any other elite NBA shooting guard for Kobe Bryant and kept that same Lakers supporting cast, L.A.'s season would have been very, very different. Is there any doubt that Los Angeles would have finished with a record that was just as abysmal as that of the Knicks, Raptors or Trail Blazers?

Kobe didn't barely get the Lakers to the playoffs, just scraping out the eighth seed. They finished seventh, were firmly entrenched in the playoff picture for much of the year, and their 45-game win total in the West was more than all but four teams in the Eastern Conference. With complimentary pieces like Chris Mihm, Devean George, Brian Cook and Sasha Vujacic surrounding Kobe, 45 wins in the Western Conference is nothing short of a miracle.

So why no love for Kobe? Like we said earlier, it's strictly personal. There's no other explanation. The writers with the votes just don't like him. They're blurring their feelings about Kobe as a person with how they view him as a basketball player.

We've been hearing all year that Kobe shouldn't win the MVP because he "doesn't make the players around him better." We don't necessarily agree, but if that's what we're basing this on, then by all means, give Steve Nash the "Makes Those Around Him Better Award" and be done with it.

Kobe perfectly fits the two criteria that voters traditionally use when deciding on an MVP: he's the best player in the league and he's invaluable to his team.

Kobe Bryant is the NBA's Most Valuable Player.

It's not even close.
 
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Psycho Logic said:
And kobe coming in....5th place.. lmao@the kobe dickriders here predicting him getting MVP.
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Given what Kobe has done this year you're honestley going to sit there and say that those who voted for him as MVP are dickriders?
 
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Tony said:
Kobe Bryant is the NBA's Most Valuable Player.

It's not even close.
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Kobe is the MVP HANDS FUCKIN DOWN...

nash was third on my list behind kobe and lebron. absolute bullshit tho.

haha but seein Kobe smash on Nash tonight and seeing Nash fall to the floor was priceless. oh and kobe gettin in his face in the 1st quarter too.
 
FATAL NYGHTMARE

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You people wanna know why Kobe didn't get the MVP? Fuck that bullshit article that Tony posted (both of them). He didn't get the MVP because of selfishness. Before you clowns try and come at me with your excuses, I already know he didn't have a great supporting cast. But nobody else on that team scored. They are professional basketball players, they should be able to put some points up on the board if they get a chance to do so. Kobe didn't give them that chance. The league values team players, and Kobe Bryant is far from a team player. Sure, he can take the game into his hands and possibly win it with minimal help, but that's not what the league and coaches want to see. The only thing Kobe did was put up points, he didn't help his teammates get better and it was a one-man show in a 5-man team sport. That's why he did not get MVP. Anybody who believes otherwise is a jackass.
 
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MVP = the player that's most valuable to their team. I guess that can be interpreted in different ways, but there's no way in hell that the Lakers without Kobe are better than the Suns without Nash.
 
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FATAL NYGHTMARE said:
You people wanna know why Kobe didn't get the MVP? Fuck that bullshit article that Tony posted (both of them). He didn't get the MVP because of selfishness. Before you clowns try and come at me with your excuses, I already know he didn't have a great supporting cast. But nobody else on that team scored. They are professional basketball players, they should be able to put some points up on the board if they get a chance to do so. Kobe didn't give them that chance. The league values team players, and Kobe Bryant is far from a team player. Sure, he can take the game into his hands and possibly win it with minimal help, but that's not what the league and coaches want to see. The only thing Kobe did was put up points, he didn't help his teammates get better and it was a one-man show in a 5-man team sport. That's why he did not get MVP. Anybody who believes otherwise is a jackass.
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CO-SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!
and furthermore..kobe really didn't put on his charade of being a team player until 2 months ago..when he woke up out his coma and realized the playoffs were drawing near...
now i hear he is changing his number from 8 to 24, because he feels number is a bit unlucky for him...
 
surcaliman

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Ra$an said:
CO-SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!
and furthermore..kobe really didn't put on his charade of being a team player until 2 months ago..when he woke up out his coma and realized the playoffs were drawing near...
now i hear he is changing his number from 8 to 24, because he feels number is a bit unlucky for him...
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get ur info right homie..24 is is old high school #,thats the only reason hes changing it..and as far as #8 being bad luck..lol..ya buddy..3 championships are sum bad luck..
 
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