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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.

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 Amaré 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.
 
Can't argue with that. When you lose Amare Stoudimare one of the best F/C's in the league, and you are stuck with Kurt Thomas who didn't last half the season anyway. Then you have a stiff like Tim Thomas, and a mediocre player like Raja Bell, all made much better by Nash. How could it be anyone else?
 
RedHotCulpepper said:
Can't argue with that. When you lose Amare Stoudimare one of the best F/C's in the league, and you are stuck with Kurt Thomas who didn't last half the season anyway. Then you have a stiff like Tim Thomas, and a mediocre player like Raja Bell, all made much better by Nash. How could it be anyone else?
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You score 80 points in 1 game..
 
GreenMonster said:
You score 80 points in 1 game..
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because a guy has 1 monster game where he shots hte ball 46 times he should be MVP?
 
Finfan86 said:
because a guy has 1 monster game where he shots hte ball 46 times he should be MVP?
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No, because the guy led the league in scoring, and carried a VERY bad team into the playoffs BY HIMSELF.

And so what if he shot 46 times. He made 28 of them.
 
Tough giving it to Nash....winning multiple MVPs probably puts him in a category where he doesnt belong. Just compare his MVP seasons with Jordan's and Magics'. But who else could you give it to? The only other viable canidate was Lebron, and noone wants to give it to a guy whos only 21 and will probably be in the running for the next decade. Kobe and Dirk and just scorers....you cant give the MVP award to a guy jsut b/c he put up the most shots.
 
HurriPhinFan said:
No, because the guy led the league in scoring, and carried a VERY bad team into the playoffs BY HIMSELF.

And so what if he shot 46 times. He made 28 of them.
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they're not going to give the MVP to the best player on a 7th seeded team even if he had the year Kobe had. Especially after the defending MVP has a better season, w/o Amare, Johnson, and QRich, and seeing Barbosa,House,Diaw,Bell,and Jones all having career years.
 
Ferretsquig said:
Tough giving it to Nash....winning multiple MVPs probably puts him in a category where he doesnt belong. Just compare his MVP seasons with Jordan's and Magics'. But who else could you give it to? The only other viable canidate was Lebron, and noone wants to give it to a guy whos only 21 and will probably be in the running for the next decade. Kobe and Dirk and just scorers....you cant give the MVP award to a guy jsut b/c he put up the most shots.
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:yeahthat:
 
I hate Kobe's gut's but even I think he deserved it more than Nash.
 
Kobe is pissed. :lol: Bottom line is the award is called the most VALUABLE player award....not the highest-scoring-in-one-game award....it goes to the guy who is most valuable to his team and does the most for them. Nash is deserving.
 
Kobe should have won it. I disagree with Nash winning it big time. Nash doesn't even play Defense...at least Kobe does.
 
Get ready to be unhappy Heat fans..I got a feeling they are gonna screw ZO for: Defensive POY, 6th Man, and comeback player of the Year...
 
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