Imagine if you put a player like KG on the Mavs, how many points would he have, how many boards? He would basically be unstoppable on that team. I could give a list of shooters who would put up the same #s on that team. Take away Dirk and the Mavs are still one of the best, if not the best, TEAM in the NBA.
Take Nash away from the Suns and they dont reach the playoffs, period, fact. His #s are the best of his career, He is the reigning MVP. Just like the Heat are the reigning Champs and they will be until someone knocks them out. Dirk did not do enough to take the award from Nash in my opinion.

The teams only All-Star. Is that REALLY a reson to make him MVP? An MVP may make All Stars out of other players around him. Like Ray Allen last year. Ray’s terrific shooting, passing, and rebounding year from a shooting guard not only elevated his play but helped make Rashard Lewis an All-Star.

Dirk is a very valuable player and most likely the MAVS most valuable man- although I think you could make an argument that Josh Howard was the first to buy into Avery’s defensive style of play and is the most valuable Mav on both sides of the court.

But this year’s MVP goes to last years MVP. That’s right. Former Mav Steve Nash is still the MVP of the league. Suns lost Amare Stoudamire (an All-Star and an MVP candidate last season), Joe Johnson, and Quentin Richardson. But they didn’t miss a beat because the the Suns whole game plan is designed around NASH. Under Nash’s guidance Boris (who?) Diaw won Most Improved Player award, and 6 Suns had there highest scoring average ever. Nash is the Suns. And he again showed his MVP-ness in this years playoffs. Like any human will at any time in their life he failed miserably. Giving up game 4 in ugly fashion. But like a true MVP he did not berate his teamates (ie Dirk last postseason, instead he took full blame and vowed to do better. Now the Suns are up one game to nada over the Clippers and are headed straight for a Dirk vs. Nash 2 duel in the Western Conference Finals (we all know how the first one went). I am confident Nash will lead his team there and I hope Dirk will too.

Go Mavs

JC

Dirk would have been my number 2 pick; he’ll win the MVP if he keeps performing at this level for a few more years. It wouldn’t hurt if Dallas won the West and he’d be a lock for next year if he lead the Mavs past Detroit in the Finals… if only he had a pt guard that actually passes the ball off a pick and roll.

Go Mavs!

In my opinion, after playing and following basketball for over 30 years now, the MVP should be the player who contributes the greatest individual performance to the team’s overall success. So here’s one way to replace the silly subjective opinions with some objective and supportable criteria:

If one takes each Player’s Efficiency Rating as defined by ESPN (a pretty good measure, I think) and multiplies that by the Team’s Winning percentage, then guess who comes out on top? Yep, Dirk at 31.70.

Fyi, Lebron is #2 at 30.56, while Nash is only 8th at 25.96. Take a look, the numbers don’t lie, and I happen to be a Laker loyalist, so there’s no bias here.

Hopefully you can use this next year as Dirk is only getting better and better!

Bob Bacon