Comments on: Why the Mavericks Will Be Players in 2010 Free Agent Class

By: Trinity

Trinity — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:35:02 +0000

Youngfed, the race card is so 2008… quit acting like a little boy and grow the f–k up son! Dont you have better things to do with your time than start retarded net battles with your high school or possibly elementary level intellect?

By: "Cool"-Ton

"Cool"-Ton — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:54:53 +0000

im glad that dirk isnt being selfish … to be honest, i dont think he should have won the mvp the year that he did though. but he definitely had a solid year on a good team … its just a big popularity contest. i mean sometimes there are absolutel clear cut winners for mvp … but rarely … its open for arguement.

i hate to see that people are so obsessed with the color of someones skin though.

By: Celts Fan

Celts Fan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:53:55 +0000

*right around 8 (don’t know where the hell the smiley face came from…)

By: Celts Fan

Celts Fan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:52:03 +0000

@PaLakerfan (post 53) EXACTLY MAN…

@Bron – that Hawaii system thing is on-point, but the problem is the other guy you’re trying to compare him to was basically in the same boat (only his system was the “Give it to Will” offense) and again, if Kobe’s team had won 65 instead of barely sliding into the Playoffs (or if Nash wasn’t running shit with a bunch of average guys – other than Matrix of course – and without Amare,) I’d agree w/ you.

and yes, Marion is still good and the “he’d be a WR, not the QB” in that analogy point is also pretty on-point. that guy belongs in an up-tempo system. guys like him and Josh Smith should be on teams that run or they’re not being used right.

@PALakerFan (post 55) = you’re right man, never thought about it like that. Dude’s still a top 10 player ever (I’d put him right around but he could’ve been top 5 easily had he actually decided to try running once in a while in the off-season and maybe not eating all that candy off the ground after he made it rain in Kazaam.

By: dagwaller

dagwaller — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:23:39 +0000

Oh yea, and let’s see how the teams would be without Dirk/Nash in their MVP years. As we already know, with largely the same roster, the Suns (since some have forgotten) were out of the playoffs the year before Nash got there. So no, they wouldn’t have been in the playoffs, much less the perennial contender that they are now. As opposed to Shaq, who took a team already in the playoffs to the title. Psh.

And the Mavericks best player after Dirk when they went to the title series was…Josh Howard? Who wasn’t even an All-Star back then? He averaged 15 points a game. Yup. Second best player on the team. Unless you want to say Dampier (laugh) or JET (3.8 assists per game as the PG).

If anything, you’d think that the 100 percent AMERICAN sports writers would vote AGAINST the two non Americans. But no one wants to believe that. Don’t you think that, while many Americans, black, white, Cuban or asian, have been discriminated against because of their race, it MIGHT be possible that people from other countries might be discriminated against?

Some people are close minded even when they try to prove that they’re open minded.

By: vinny

vinny — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:20:53 +0000

dmitry of jersey-you think no one has ever played that way before- denver nuggets-fat lever pt guard-had great stats- but everyone downplayed his stats because of the style they played! Nash played in a system that padded his stats(see chris duhon) and he got all the credit- shit seven seconds to shoot was fucking invented by a black coach in the 50′s- but you would think the suns invented that shit!!

By: vinny

vinny — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:55 +0000

I wish everyone felt that way PALakerfan. let me give you an example-imo- of a white guy who has double standards-Dick Vitale-he has always judged black and white players differently. while he will make an obvious choice when he has to-but given the opportunity he judges black and white differently- perfect example
Lawerence funderburke stepping on someone and christian lattner doing the same thing- his reaction to the same bascic play was to hammer funderburke and gloss over lattner. Man this is going way back but he pumped up Stuart Gray over patrick ewing coming out of high school!
I went to ucla and played with stuart gray-pickup games- and wtf!! gray and ewing-you see how that worked out!
I remember draft night when philly took iggy over luke jackson he went banana’s-how could philly do that. Last year making it seem like there was no way mike beasley could be player of the year over physcho t. see my point(hopefully)
yea dirk was the best that year-oh and then they lost in the first round and he was being posted up by anyone who felt like it on the warriors. yea i know its mvp for the regular season.
I’m sure if you had stats- a majority of sportswriters are white and bring some bias to the table when they vote. but while they are guys like palakerfan there are a lot of vitales out there also.

By: dagwaller

dagwaller — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:14:54 +0000

Ha, Bron, good point about the WR/QB comparison.

But still, Marion should have seen his stats go UP, since he doesn’t have to contend with so many others for shots. And also, considering the fact that he doesn’t have a dominant center anymore, you’d think that he’d get more rebounds (more to go around because of the worse shooting, better defense, and because the big body next to him wouldn’t be doing as much). And Nash has seen his assists drop by…2? And his points by…1.5? Yea, huge drop off. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Shawn.

Again, I fail to see how 3 MVPs in the last 20 years being white has anything to do with racism, unless it’s against white people. You know those white basketball journalists – they must HATE black guys! Otherwise, they wouldn’t be covering a sport that is predominantly black, and voting for black players year in and year out for every award imaginable.

Logic takes a huge hit today in the comments section of Dime.

Anyway, as you might imagine, I’m pumped that Dirk is willing to take a pay cut to bring in better players. I officially jumped off of the Gilbert Arenas bandwagon (if there was one) when he “signed for less money” – what a laugh.

By: PALakerFan

PALakerFan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:02:28 +0000

Plus, Shaq was paying the Lazy Bitch penalty. You know – where the great athlete gets lazy and then when he leaves he decides to try again, and then also stabs all his ex-teammates in the back. Sports writers can only dream of having NBA talent and penalize a guy for wasting it.

Notice Shaq almost instantly became a Lazy Bitch again to get out of Miami and is trying again in PHX. Another year or two and the Bitch will be back.

By: dmitry of jersey

dmitry of jersey — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:55:33 +0000

why isn’t no one mentioning the fact that Nash legitimately changed the NBA. him running the D’antoni suns marked a turning point where teams started showcasing their athletic talent and scoring 100+ points per game. in other words, Nash’s role on the suns made the nba as a whole more entertaining because he solidified a trend toward more offense. THAT, in addition to the fact that he was playing nice on a really good team, was why he won. Did shaq deserve it more? in some ways he did… but with shaq it was the same old same old (i.e. tim duncan effect) while with nash it was new and the NBA wanted to highlight that.