go to espn.com and vote for Nash

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 3:13 pm

...for NBA MVP. His performance in the All-star dunk contest alone was enough to garner the honor.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

while i want him to win it, he did fuck up that foot thing like four times...

OPA! · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 3:27 pm

AI for MVP!

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 4:41 pm

<hater> AI needs some AI <hater>

When you take 40 shots per game, you're bound to score some.

tthorn · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 4:43 pm

My votes would be:

1. Iverson (it's not his fault he doesn't have much of a team - amazing season for him.)
2. O'Neal (just due to LA last year vs this year)
3. Nash (with Amare, Marion, and Quentin Richardson, dude has massive support)
4. Duncan (would be 2nd, but missed too many games)
5. James (didn't make the playoffs, though like AI, he's got no help)

AI's stats this year:
1st in NBA in Points Per Game (30.7)
2nd in NBA in Steals Per Game (2.40)
5th in NBA in Assists Per Game (7.9)
83.5% Free Throw Shooting

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 4:43 pm

I voted for Nash, but think Shaq will get it, cause voters like the big man.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i'd love AI to get it, but it ain't gonna happen.

tehobner · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm **Posts:** 4479

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

<hater> AI needs some AI <hater>

When you take 40 shots per game, you're bound to score some.

and when you pass the ball 100 times, the person you pass it to is bound to score sometimes.

andyfest · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 5:44 pm

Cotton Wrote:

i'd love AI to get it, but it ain't gonna happen.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 6:14 pm

breaking news from ESPN

Updated: May 6, 2005, 4:54 PM ET
Nash third point guard in 40-plus years to win MVPBy Marc Stein
ESPN.com
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Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash will be awarded the NBA's Most Valuable Player on Sunday, sources say.

Steve Nash
Point Guard
Phoenix Suns
Profile

2004-2005 SEASON STATISTICS
GM PPG RPG APG FG% FT%
75 15.5 3.3 11.5 .502 .887

Nash has edged Miami center Shaquille O'Neal to become just the third point guard in 40-plus years to win the league's highest individual honor, according to sources familiar with the results. The others are Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson.

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.

Shaquille O'Neal
Center
Miami Heat
Profile

2004-2005 SEASON STATISTICS
GM PPG RPG APG FG% FT%
73 22.9 10.4 2.7 .601 .461

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.

Marc Stein is the senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. To e-mail him, click here. Also, click here to send a question for possible use on ESPNEWS.

tehobner · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm **Posts:** 4479

bulllllshiit

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 6:57 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2 ... id=2054677

why, what do your sources say?

tehobner · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm **Posts:** 4479

my sources=myself and i think it's bullshit that Nash got the award.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 8:07 pm

i kind of agree, but when ya look at how the Suns seemed lost in the middle of the year when Nash missed that bunch of games, I guess it showed his worth...

at the same time, same thing happened to the Heat at the end, when Shaq sat out for a while....

shiv · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2005 8:16 pm

yeah i'm sure if say kidd, francis or baron davis played the point for phoenix they would've done just as well. they were already a pretty good team.

i voted for shaq.

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

Thats a great avatar, Twilight!

I'm glad that Steve Nash is being considered.
I was sad to see him leave Dallas.

go to espn.com and vote for Nash

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