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NBA 2005/2006 Season Thread

ShiftyPowers

ShiftyPowers

Make America Great Again
hopeunited said:
"2. Flagrant stupidity
Here's why Kobe Bryant can't be MVP. On Dec. 28, he commits a premeditated flagrant foul on Mike Miller (elbow to the neck), Miller makes the two free throws and the Grizzlies win 100-99 in overtime. Then Bryant brags about the elbow and gets suspended two games, which become two losses to Utah. One elbow, three Ls. -- ESPN.com"
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That's the dumbest thing I've ever read. You award the MVP to either the best player (my criteria), or the guy who's most valuable to a winning team (the dumb criteria that everyone else seems to use). Now this quote right here doesn't address either, and it takes 3 games and uses it to judge an entire 82 game season. Over the course of 82 games Kobe has demonstrated that he's the best player in the NBA. In addition he is clearly the most valuable player to his team, Beto is right, without Kobe the Lakers are a 10 or 15 win team. This column betrays itself, the Lakers DID lose those two games to the Jazz. Without Kobe. If they didn't need him they could have taken one.
 
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$teauA

Superstar
Match-ups are set in the East:

Detroit vs. Milwaukee
Miami vs. Chicago
New Jersey vs. Indiana
Cleveland vs. Washington

*first team has home court

I'll open the official play-off thread later tonight after the 7 and 8th spots are decided in the West.

PS: Bobcats ended the season on a 4 game winning streak (Y)
 
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Jacky

Senior Squad
that's true.. but the possibility of a series going longer and be able to generate more revenue is one reason for it to be like this.. these days money talks
 
M

ManU2000

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Well, it seems that Steve Nash is going to win the MVP trophy again. I thought that this was a pretty good article about the subject of the MVP:

Nash over Kobe for MVP? What a joke

DIME Magazine / Dime Magazine
Posted: 36 minutes ago

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.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5542552

If I didn't know any better, I would have thought I wrote it. :p I basically said the same thing not too long ago.
 
Juventino

Juventino

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Go Lakers! They just came back from 5 points in the last seconds. Turnover from Nash. :o Now heading into OT. A 3-1 lead would be sweet. (It's my favourite basketball team... loving American sports)

EDIT -

LAKERS WIN! 1 point down and 6 seconds to go and a jump ball... Kobe 2 points, ice cold man. (H)

:D

I'm sorry for posting it here btw. I looked over the play-offs thread.
 
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$teauA

Superstar
Juventino said:
Go Lakers! They just came back from 5 points in the last seconds. Turnover from Nash. :o Now heading into OT. A 3-1 lead would be sweet. (It's my favourite basketball team... loving American sports)

EDIT -

LAKERS WIN! 1 point down and 6 seconds to go and a jump ball... Kobe 2 points, ice cold man. (H)

:D

I'm sorry for posting it here btw. I looked over the play-offs thread.
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lol funny post :D
 
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