NBA ROY (ESPN)

[CraigHorn]

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17-3 for KD

Make-believe sports analysts for $100, Alex.

"The three stooges":

who are Jemele Hill, Jon Barry, and Mark Jackson?

 

[longhornfan2818]

Sounds about right.

 

[hudsonhorn]

Much as I like KD, about half of those guys voting don't have a clue - on any level. But it's jerks like this that make the decisions on MVP, ROY, etc. Oh, well - at least they got the 6th man right.

 

[CraigHorn]

I regret that the 'three stooges' probably lack the insight that would lead to a confession of the type, "This is the most public of my many humiliations." Even so, the article in today's AAS was compelling--esp these comments:

"I don't think it's remotely close in terms of what he's done in any category, from top to bottom," Sonics coach P.J. Carlesimo said at the end of the season. "Where he stacks up to compared to previous rookies and what they've accomplished in their first year, how he compares to other rookies of the year, how he compares to the other rookies in this class."

Playing as a shooting guard for the first time in his young basketball career, Durant was asked from the start to carry the scoring load for a rebuilding Sonics franchise. Durant averaged 20.3 points, grabbed 4.4 rebounds and played a team-high 34 minutes per night. His scoring was the highest average for a rookie of the year since LeBron James averaged 20.9 points in 2003-04. Carmelo Anthony averaged 21 points as a rookie, in 2003-04, but James won the award.

Durant was the Western Conference rookie of the month five out of six times."
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