Posts Tagged: MVP

The Curious Case of Steve Nash

He may not have entered the world, or the NBA for that matter, looking like an old man, but Steve Nash certainly has had a Benjamin Button-esque career arc. Like the basketball version of a fine glass of wine, or [...]

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Top 5: Reasons Nash Is Best Suns Point Guard Ever

When starting this weekly ‘Top 5’ blog I could have decided on a simple subject matter to kick things off. Something like ‘the top 5 players in Suns history’ or ‘the top 5 things Charles Barkley said that shocked people’. [...]

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Does Steve Nash need a title to be validated?

ESPN’s J.A. Adande doesn’t seem to think so. In his column Wednesday, Adande says Nash doesn’t need anything, including an NBA title, to validate his career. We tend to agree. The genius of what Nash did was in utilizing this [...]

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Nash, Stoudemire receive MVP votes

LeBron James of Cleveland was nearly a unanimous choice for NBA MVP (he got 116 out of 123 first place votes)… …but the Suns had two players receive votes, joining only the Denver Nuggets (Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups) with [...]

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Bill Simmons thinks Steve Nash deserves MVP votes. Maybe he is smart enough to be a GM

Name me a star player with a harder job this season. His shooting guard went into a funk for half the season. His sixth man missed half the year. His meal ticket power forward obsessed over his own future for [...]

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Brownie Points: The Cardinals are like a box of chocolates…

Did you really expect anything different? I mean, really, really think things had changed? This isn’t the New England Patriots we’re talking about here. These are the Arizona Cardinals. If they have no idea what to expect from week to [...]

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Warner the favorite for NFL MVP

Bodog Sportsbook has released it’s updated odds for several NFL issues, including who will win the 2008 NFL MVP. Quarterback Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals is currently atop the list of candidates, and is an 8 to 5 favorite [...]

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Pujols wins MVP, but two D-Backs get votes

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols won his second National League MVP Award on Monday, beating out Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard and Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun for the award. Dodgers’ outfielder Manny Ramirez and Houston’s Lance Berkman rounded out the top [...]

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