<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Source: Nash to be MVP Suns guard would be 10th player to win award in consecutive seasons Paul Coro The Arizona Republic Apr. 26, 2006 12:00 AM Suns star Steve Nash will be named the NBA's Most Valuable Player for a second straight season, according to a league source familiar with the voting. The announcement may not come for two weeks, like last season's May 8 ceremony. The votes have been tabulated in what was expected to be a close race with LeBron James, Dirk Nowitzki, Chauncey Billups and Kobe Bryant. Nash won the fourth-closest MVP vote last year, edging Shaquille O'Neal a year after Nash was not even an All-Star. advertisement Nash, 32, impressed voters this season by posting career highs in scoring (18.8 points per game), rebounding (4.2 per game), field goal percentage (.512) and free-throw percentage (NBA-best .921). He led the league in assists again with 10.5 per game and finished sixth in three-point shooting (43.9 percent). After Amar? Stoudemire's knee surgery deprived the Suns of their top scorer, Nash led the team to 54 wins and its first repeat division title with only Shawn Marion and Leandro Barbosa back for a full season. Nash would be the first international and Suns player to win twice. Only nine previous players repeated as MVP winners. Magic Johnson was the only point guard to do so.</div> Wow...just wow...are you KIDDING ME?!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting dallasdude:</div><div class="quote_post">This pretty much makes Nash a Hall of Famer. Damn..</div> Doesn't get him it but it sure as hell helps him get closer.
Nash probably received the most 2nd place votes, which got him the award. There's normally two criterias for the writers voting: A) Best player for entire season Best player for one of the top winning teams If your criteria is A, your 1st place options are Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, or Dwyane Wade. 2nd place option is Steve Nash. If your criteria is B, your 1st place options are Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, or Chauncey Billups. 2nd place option could be Kobe, Lebron, or Wade. Congrats to Nash for winning it.
Why is everybody hatin on Nash? i think he deserves it and i dont think i'm the only one. Sure, kobe and lebron put up big numbers but thats not everything. Nash makes everyone around him better. CONGRATS KID CANADA!!!!
man, why are you guys giving nash such a rough time? its been said by experts all over the league, all season long that nash is a front runner for MVP. look at what he's done? he's taken a buch of role playing journeymen, and given them career seasons. boris diaw had an AMAZING year. stoudamire was inured all season, and the suns STILL had the 4th best record in the league. 3rd in the west! nash lost practically his entire team, and STILL put up career numbers, and carried his team to a record over 50 wins. those sure sound like MVP accomplishments to me. to win the MVP your team has to be atop the league. not barely squeek by .500 congrats to nash. there was no RUN AWAY winner this year...but nash was certainly one of the candidates, so its certainly not an injustice to the other front runners.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">look at what he's done? he's taken a buch of role playing journeymen, and given them career seasons. boris diaw had an AMAZING year. stoudamire was inured all season, and the suns STILL had the 4th best record in the league. 3rd in the west! nash lost practically his entire team, and STILL put up career numbers, and carried his team to a record over 50 wins. those sure sound like MVP accomplishments to me. to win the MVP your team has to be atop the league. not barely squeek by .500</div> Clears it up for me. I myself even thought Nash and the Suns wouldn`t do anything after the loss of Q and JJ, even with Amare. Now I look a season later, Nash has led that team to 50+ wins, turn like said before, bench players to some of their best seasons. If it wasn`t for Nash, Diaw wouldn`t be a top 6th Man canidate. No Amare the whole season, and Nash still brought the Suns to one of top squads in the NBA.
No one is hating on Nash but the way I look at it, if you take away Kobe from the Lakers and take away Nash from the Suns who do you think whould be the better team? Atleast Suns would atleast still have Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion and some decent bench players. Who would the Lakers have? Lamar Odom and Smush Parker. Yup.. But still Nash did do his thing consistently so congrats I guess but I think this is crap right here.. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Poll: Nash headed to 2nd straight award 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. </div>
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Tha CTown Knick:</div><div class="quote_post">No one is hating on Nash but the way I look at it, if you take away Kobe from the Lakers and take away Nash from the Suns who do you think whould be the better team? Atleast Suns would atleast still have Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion and some decent bench players. Who would the Lakers have? Lamar Odom and Smush Parker. Yup.. But still Nash did do his thing consistently so congrats I guess but I think this is crap right here..</div> If Kobe would have won MVP it would have been a joke. IMO an MVP should be on a team that has an outstanding regular season. The Suns without Amare were the 4th best team in the league. The Lakers were the 7th seed in the team. Steve Nash simply is the most valuable player that plays on an exceptional team. Kobe Bryant is probably the best player in the league but does not have the ability for his team to excel at a high level.
13 writers didn't even give Kobe a vote, that's ridiculous! I have no problem with Nash winning the MVP, he was my choice until the last two weeks of the season. I predicted him to win because he's a good balance between having great stats and also a winning season. Still 13 writers not giving Kobe any votes really pisses me off. It taints the award and gives people an excuse to bash the winner.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Tha CTown Knick:</div><div class="quote_post">No one is hating on Nash but the way I look at it, if you take away Kobe from the Lakers and take away Nash from the Suns who do you think whould be the better team? Atleast Suns would atleast still have Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion and some decent bench players. Who would the Lakers have? Lamar Odom and Smush Parker. Yup.. But still Nash did do his thing consistently so congrats I guess but I think this is crap right here..</div> wrong...because amare missed the entire season. all they'd have is marion...and who? boris diaw? who was he before he played with nash? he was a nobody. he got huge minutes in atl...he started TONS...he was a nobody. raja bell...since when is he one of the best 3pt shooters in the league? since he plays with nash..thats when. nash's game is making players better...he does that way better then kb8 imo. you take nash off that team, and you've got a lottery team. q-rich is a perfect example...where was he this year? throwing up bricks, because he didnt have nash giving him wide open shots. who are these "decent bench players" ?? james jones? eddie house? lol...come on man...these guys had career seasons because they were playing with nash, it seems obvious to me at least at least if you take kobe off the lakers, you have lamar, and a couple legit centers. thats 2 centers more then what the suns have. not to mention, the lakers have arguably the best coach in nba history.
While I think Dirk or Lebron should've won it, Nash did well and was also deserving. He was a lot more deserving than last year when it was too much about hype, the underdog, and flawed analysis of the Suns losing without him. Also why can't people just say Nash had a great season and did well. I hate all these people with the stupid Diaw played great, which really wasn't related to Nash. Blah blah journey man did good this year, or this player was a cast away and now did good. The main guys on the Suns [Marion, KT, Bell, Barbosa, and later Tim Thomas] outside of Diaw were all already good players. How about people look at this. Nash had a very good season, was the most efficienct scorer in the league, led the league in assists, was a leader for his team, and was a winner, none of this other nonsense.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting og15:</div><div class="quote_post">While I think Dirk or Lebron should've won it, Nash did well and was also deserving. He was a lot more deserving than last year when it was too much about hype, the underdog, and flawed analysis of the Suns losing without him. Also why can't people just say Nash had a great season and did well. I hate all these people with the stupid Diaw played great, which really wasn't related to Nash. Blah blah journey man did good this year, or this player was a cast away and now did good. The main guys on the Suns [Marion, KT, Bell, Barbosa, and later Tim Thomas] outside of Diaw were all already good players. How about people look at this. Nash had a very good season, was the most efficienct scorer in the league, led the league in assists, was a leader for his team, and was a winner, none of this other nonsense.</div> Marion-career year Bell- Career year Barbosa- Career year Jones- Career year Diaw-Career year House- Career year Good Players??? YES! Nash makes these players that much better!
I think if the Lakers beat Phoenix, than Kobe deserves it more, and should have gotten it. Snap back to reality, I think Nash deserved it most, but man this just shows how much the league has deteriorated in the past decades. We have Steve Nash on the same page as Magic Johnson, MJ, and Kareem (others that have won the MVP back to back). We need more MJs, Hakeems, Kareems, and Birds that are extraordinary players on great teams.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting igotask8board:</div><div class="quote_post">I think if the Lakers beat Phoenix, than Kobe deserves it more, and should have gotten it. Snap back to reality, I think Nash deserved it most, but man this just shows how much the league has deteriorated in the past decades. We have Steve Nash on the same page as Magic Johnson, MJ, and Kareem (others that have won the MVP back to back). We need more MJs, Hakeems, Kareems, and Birds that are extraordinary players on great teams.</div> It's amazing accomplishment. Not to take away from Nash, but it's just hard to imagine he has more MVPs than Shaq O'Neal.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> I think if the Lakers beat Phoenix, than Kobe deserves it more, and should have gotten it. Snap back to reality, I think Nash deserved it most, but man this just shows how much the league has deteriorated in the past decades. We have Steve Nash on the same page as Magic Johnson, MJ, and Kareem (others that have won the MVP back to back). We need more MJs, Hakeems, Kareems, and Birds that are extraordinary players on great teams. </div> I hate when people say stuff like this. It doesn't show any deterioration whatsoever, people just choose to hold on to the past for no logical reason. Okay, Nash might not be as "good" as Magic or Kareem but the year is 2006, not 1986, so what's the point of holding on to that? Just take it like this; if Nash is good enough to win back-to-back MVP's, that doesnt mean he's better then any of those legendary players, it just means he's had two excellent seasons. He hasn't even won a ring yet and people tend to bash him for absolutely no reason. He's been good for the league and even better by showing some recognition to Canada in a positive way. Stop the complaining about how he's not "Magic-like", how he doesn't deserve it, and blah blah. Appreciate what the guy has done for the Suns and for the league and marvel at his accomplishments rather then comparing him to legends and so on, that will only make you furthermore biased. This whole 'not appreciating' factor has to be especially taken in by Kobe fans because this is exactly the kind of treatment Kobe would get by many other fans when being compared with someone else or being talked about. I don't agree with Nash winning it over Kobe, but he is deserving of the award. And furthermore, if Nash can win back-to-back MVP's, so can Kobe, so Laker fans need to hcill out, his time will come if he truly is destined to be the greatest.
For the people who are mad that people are hating Nash getting the MVP this year, it's really just because he won last year. He's not the kind of guy who belongs on a short list of multiple MVP winners. What I really don't get is how people make Nash's supporting cast such a big deal. OG already brought up the Suns' specifics, but I'll add a bit. Marion is a mega-elite player in the league (not to mention #1 in fantasy), there's no way around that. Then look at the other top MVP candidates. Dirk (best player around him is Jason Terry), LeBron (Ilgauskas), Kobe (Odom)....it just doesn't make sense to me that Nash got so much support because of his "weak" supporting cast. If you wanna say "but Nash's team totally changed this offseason", well, so did Dirk's (not so much in players, but they had a coach and major style change), Wade's team completely changed - coach and players, Kobe got a whole new system with Phil...Nash wasn't the only player who had to deal with change. Anyway, I just think the ridiculous over-hype of Nash needs to be stopped, at least until he actually leads his team to a title. If all the media keeps talking nothing but greatness about him, it seems like he'll never lose an MVP race.
