January 20, 200719 yr Author If he deserves it there is.... I don't believe anyone has won it 3 straight years. Do you really think Nash deserves that crown?
January 20, 200719 yr I don't believe anyone has won it 3 straight years. Do you really think Nash deserves that crown? If he keeps going at this pace....yes. He is one of the only guys I have ever seen that can take over a game without scoring. Then when he does need to score, he has shown the ability to turn that on this year. Gilbert and Dirk are his only competition right now IMO, and Gilberts teams record doesnt compare to the Suns really.
January 20, 200719 yr Author I think it is a complete toss up right now and no one is the front runner.
January 20, 200719 yr Minnesota couldn't get to 100 even in 2 OT's. Garnett did get ejected midway through the 4th though, if not the TWolves probably would have won.
January 20, 200719 yr Arenas does have the Wiz' (23-16) tied for first place in the Eastern Conference with Cleveland. Who would have thought 5 years ago we would say the Wizards & Cavs would be in first place. Dallas is 33-8 Phoenix is 31-8 (12 straight wins) How weak is the East??? 6 teams in the west have better records than the first place Wiz in the east. The Grizz' have the worst record in the NBA (10-30) The 76ers have dibbs on the second slot with a 11-29 record
January 20, 200719 yr Author http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/01/19/kirilenko.jazz.ap/index.html SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller said Andrei Kirilenko, his highest-paid player, is "putting himself on thin ice" with inconsistent play and complaints about his role on the team. Miller said he cringes during some of Kirilenko's jump shots. "I'd almost like to call his bluff, say, 'OK, automatically we're going to leave you out there. You're going to take 20 shots a night five games in a row. And then we'll see,' " Miller told radio station 1280 AM. "That would resolve the issue," Miller said Thursday. "He's either going to make them or he's not."
January 20, 200719 yr http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime_070120-21 SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Three's company in MVP race Two-time reigning MVP Steve Nash. His good buddy Dirk Nowitzki. And the otherworldly Kobe Bryant. Your regular-season Most Valuable Player can only be one of the above. I was actually leaning toward saying it's already down to a two-man race between the perpetually inseparable Nash and Nowitzki and was even encouraged to do so by Kobe when he visited Dallas on Thursday night. But rest assured Bryant can still intervene here. With the Lakers on a remarkable 53-29 pace entering the weekend in spite of injuries to Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown, and with Odom and Brown due back reasonably soon, No. 24 will be an undeniable factor in MVP balloting as long as the Lakers uphold their current success rate and finish with a win total in the 50s. Otherwise … Regular readers know that team success is always the foundation of our MVP deliberations, with at least 50 W's required to crack the conversation. (Unless you play in the modern-day East, which means you'd probably need at least 55 wins and a few of those unforgettable walk-off triples that Arenas keeps giving us.) Since only two teams in the league have established 60-win paces, we naturally gravitate toward the two guys driving those teams. Nash. Nowitzki. Nowitzki. Nash. Kobe, for his part, says it's Dirk if the season ended today. Nash echoed that sentiment after the Suns' morning shootaround Friday, saying: "Dirk gets my vote. Again." Nowitzki is one of the few elite-level players who, even after eight seasons, shows up for season No. 9 having noticeably improved his game. He'll never get the credit Nash gets for making others better, because he's not a distributor, but another big Mavs progress-maker -- Josh Howard -- would say otherwise. The ultimate proof? Dallas awoke Friday morning with a 5½-game lead over its longtime rivals to the south in San Antonio, with Nowitzki fueling the Mavs' 33-4 response to their 0-4 start. It's a stunning gap which must feel twice as big to Tim Duncan's Spurs, given how close these teams usually are. Nash, meanwhile, is arguably playing better than he did in his back-to-back MVP seasons, something you undoubtedly hear now on a nightly basis on the highlight shows. The fact that he has two Maurice Podoloff trophies at home is bound to hurt him with some voters, crazy as that sounds, because resistance to the idea that Nash belongs in the three-in-a-row pantheon with Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird began to bubble early in some corners. Yet that shortsighted view overlooks two key truths.
January 20, 200719 yr http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime_070120-21 LA Lakers Checked in Thursday with Phil Jackson regarding the Lakers' interest in giving Penny Hardaway his comeback opportunity, something L.A. is still considering. It doesn't sound as though a signing is happening this weekend, but Phil also says he hasn't ruled out a move in the near future. That makes sense given that Hardaway is Jackson's kind of guard (big and experienced), presumably a good fit in the triangle offense (with his passing and ballhandling ability) and "not that old" in Jackson's estimation (if Penny is indeed healed after some six years of knee problems). The Lakers have had what Jackson terms "a couple observation opportunities" to evaluate the 35-year-old behind closed doors. Hardaway is working out daily, shuttling between three cities (Miami, Houston and his hometown of Memphis) and insists that he's far healthier than he was in either of the past two seasons, when he managed to appear in only 41 games. The difference, Penny contends, is a knee operation he had last March -- his fifth -- to address a bone-spur problem that complicated the recovery from Hardaway's original microfracture surgery back in 2000. Seattle also gave him a tryout but, as covered here recently, ultimately passed at least in part because new Sonics vice chairman Lenny Wilkens has final approval on basketball matters and had no interest in Hardaway after coaching him in New York. Chances are it won't happen, but Jackson, by contrast, has never shied away from reclamation projects, deftly handling players with worse locker-room reps than Hardaway's. Yet I couldn't get more than a chuckle out of him when I pointed out that putting Penny in the same backcourt with Kobe Bryant -- with Phil on the bench and Jerry Buss in the stands -- wouldn't exactly improve the Lakers' chilly relations with old pal Shaquille O'Neal.
January 21, 200719 yr Warriors’ Davis Suspended http://www.nba.com/news/bdavis_070120.html NEW YORK , Jan. 20 -- Golden State guard Baron Davis has been suspended for one game without pay for swinging at the L.A. Clippers Quinton Ross, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations. The incident occurred with 1:47 remaining in the fourth period of the Warriors 115-109 loss to the Clippers on Wednesday at the Staples Center. Davis will serve the suspension tonight when the Warriors take on the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Arena in Oakland. Timberwolves’ Davis Suspended http://www.nba.com/nba_news/rdavis_070120.html MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 20 (AP) -- Minnesota Timberwolves guard Ricky Davis was suspended for one game because he left the bench and walked into the locker room during Friday's 104-98 double-overtime loss to the Pistons. Davis left the bench after he was replaced by Randy Foye during the third quarter. He returned a couple of minutes later, but appeared upset. He did not play the rest of the game. "You can't have that happen,'' Wolves vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale said Saturday. "There are certain things that are out of bounds.'' Davis, the team's second-leading scorer, did not talk to reporters after Friday's loss or after Saturday's practice.
January 21, 200719 yr Buike is in the game right now....Only played about 4 minutes thus far, with Jackson playing now.:cry:
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