Brad (Salt Lake City): D-Wade for MVP!!!! what is your take? B.J. Armstrong: (4:06 PM ET ) Dwayne Wade is having an excellent season, along with the Miami Heat. He is a great candidate for that award this year. If you're asking my opinion as MVP, though, I have to say Kobe Bryant. He's just had a remarkable season, not only individually, but this team has been nothing short of sensational with what he's done. Being in the seventh spot in the western conference is a great achievement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jorge (la la land): lakers over the suns in the first round, what do u think? B.J. Armstrong: (4:14 PM ET ) I'm going to agree with that. I'll take the Lakers as well. Kobe is going to go to whatever extreme as necessary to win in the first round. The Suns play good ball, and they'll win a lot of regular season ball games, but when the playoffs start they will start to change. I'm picking the Lakers over the Suns. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Austin (Brea, CA): Hey B.J., you played with Mike and i was just wondering what areas you think Kobe needs to develope in order to be as dominant a player in this league as MJ? B.J. Armstrong: (4:34 PM ET ) Up until this year, I say this about Kobe, when you mention his name with Jordan, I didn't think it was even possible. Now when you do that, I think you can mention him in the conversation. You can talk about Kobe as one of the best players of his era and of all time. I played with Jordan and Kobe is right there. In the next few years, he will be in the conversation of the best of all time. When you can score 81 points in an NBA game you have to take him seriously.
Rob (Los Angeles, CA): KG says he doesn't want a trade and the owner says he won't trade him. Should we believe them, or are they just trying to say the right things in public? Chad Ford: (12:10 PM ET ) I'm sure KG would love a trade. He's just the type of guy who doesn't want to demand one in public. The problem is that the Wolves have zero motivation to trade him. You can't get anything close to equal value in return and the team just added a number of long term contracts to the roster mid-season. Now, even if they traded Garnett, they still would have little flexibility to rebuild. The Wolves have done as bad of a job as any team in the league the last five six years trying to build a team.
