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Brook Lopez Gets Six Votes for All-NBA Team
Let's put it this way...if the NBA had an All-NBA Sixth Team, Brook Lopez would be on it. Here's another way to look at it...only two players younger than Lopez got any votes, Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose. But the bottom line is that Lopez received six votes for the All-NBA team. Of course,...
Randy Foye wins New Jersey community service award
However you feel about Randy Foye's play this year, there's no denying that he's a great, great guy who does a lot of outstanding work in the community. He runs a foundation, aptly named the Randy Foye Foundation, which is devoted to giving back in Foye's hometown of Newark. Programs include a...
Lopez Finishes Ninth in Most Improved, CDR Gets Vote
The Rockets' Aaron Brooks was chosen the NBA's Most improved Player Thursday, tallying 403 votes out of a possible 615, four times as many as Kevin Durant, Marc Gasol and George Hill. Brook Lopez finished in a two way tie for ninth with the Wolves' Corey Brewer. They both had 19 points. Lopez...
NBC Likes Lopez for MIP...Not So ESPN Experts
NBC Sports thinks Brook Lopez will be the NBA's Most Improved Player, saying "he will emerge as one of the best big men in the East". Not so, say ESPN's Experts. They're going with Andrew Bynum or Greg Oden. Lopez got no votes from the 20 experts. But two...
TWill: "I Want Rookie of the Year"
Terrence Williams hasn't made any big announcements, but his Twitter page says it all. All summer, TWill has peppered the page with tweets of shooting practices, lap swimming, "euro-step" work, many posted early morning or late night often explaining why he's...
Harris Hints Injuries Hurt Him in Most Improved Vote
In his player's blog, Devin Harris writes he hasn't let his loss to Danny Granger in the MIP vote "build up on me too much" but suggests his various injuries may have hurt his chances. So, he notes, "Working at being out there every day and preventing injuries...
For Harris, Consistency the Next Challenge
Devin Harris admits being disappointed that he didn't win Most Improved Player but knows the next step in his career is about consistency: "Is it going to be a one-time deal or can you level off and make it back every year?" Ben Couch's profile also notes what...
Harris, Carter Get All-NBA Votes
Devin Harris got five votes and Vince Carter got one in the annual balloting for the All-NBA teams. The two finished far below the threshold for inclusion on the All-NBA third team. Third team guards Tony Parker and Chauncey Billups garnered 158 and 131...
We Didn't Start the Fire...But You Don't See Us with Hoses Either!
The off-season really doesn't heat up til the Finals are over. Still, we stoke the fires this week with a potpurri of kindling. We wonder when we'll hear about MIP and invites to Team USA's summer camp, lament Boki Nachbar's season of discontent, have fun...
So Who's the Most Improved?
The NBA has no set date for announcing the winner of its Most Improved Player award...but last year, Hedo Turkoglu accepted his heavy metal on April 28. All the other awards have been passed out and each went to someone who was still playing--MVP, Rookie of...
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