Screw You Chris Palmer of ESPN Magazine

For years, we have been saying that Tim Duncan and/or Bruce Bowen deserve more votes for DPOY. The reasoning we give is that they are the leading defenders on the best defensive team. However, they continually get beat by players with better defensive stats (blks, stls, and rebs).

Now, KG is the best defensive player on the leading defensive team (but his defensive stats are down across the board), and every sportswriter is on him like Debbie on a Dallas socialite.

I can’t fault the media for going w/KG here. However…I am noticing an interesting trend of giving awards to players whose teams have big turnarounds or whose teams exceed expectations. So if we want Timmy to win another MVP, he would have to be inactive one season, the Spurs would have to be mediocre that year, then TD would have to come back and lead the Spurs to contending status again. As it is, contending every year doesn’t win you any awards—just championships!
So this explains why Stevie Nash won MVP awards, but will probably never win another one; his team made a big turn around when he signed w/PHX, but since then they have been one of the top squads each year. And that bores the voters. Or something like that.