Award Winners You Disagreed With

[ChrisKreager]

When it comes to NBA awards- MVP, coach of year, Finals MVP- there are some instances where we will say that the right decision was made and there was a more worthy candidate.

What are some that jump out to you?

A few I disagreed with:

1990 Coach of the Year- Larry Brown, who was coaching Spurs in David Robinson's rookie season, pulled off what was- at the time- the biggest single-season turnaround in NBA history at the time. Given where they were the past few years- below .500, a terrible team in the standings before Robinson came on the scene- I think he should have gotten the award that year over Pat Riley. Brown did more with less than Riley that year.

2004 Coach of the Year- Hubie Brown did a fine job with Memphis, but I think a better case could have made for Miami's Stan Van Gundy, who got Miami to make the playoffs in a year little was expected of them (they got off to a horrendous start) and they snatched a 4-seed in D-Wade's rookie year. Aside from Wade and Odom, it was close to the same cast that had missed the playoffs two years running.

[Rnbizzle]

Inb4:

Rose's MVP last year.
Kobe's FMVPs belonging to Pau.

[G-train]

DPOY and all defensive teams are screwed.
MVP is pretty pathetic too. Anything voted by the media sucks pretty much. Most of them dont even understand the game, they just are writers with knowledge of players and teams, but little to no understanding of bball.

[Deuce Bigalow]

2010 FMVP, Kobe was carried by the Great Pau Gasol

[Faptastrophe]

2007 MVP -Nash deserved it, had the best season of his career. Dirk had the 7th best season of his career. Give me a break. It doesn't even make sense.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

2010 FMVP, Kobe was carried by the Great Pau Gasol

Glad to see you finally come around.

[ChrisKreager]

2007 MVP -Nash deserved it, had the best season of his career. Dirk had the 7th best season of his career. Give me a break. It doesn't even make sense.

Dirk would have been more deserving of the previous year's MVP.

Instead of Nash in '06 and Dirk in '07, I think it would have been a lot better had they flip-flopped.

[Whoah10115]

2007 MVP -Nash deserved it, had the best season of his career. Dirk had the 7th best season of his career. Give me a break. It doesn't even make sense.

7th best season is a huge stretch, but yes Nash should have won it.



Not much of an argument for Dirk the previous year either.




Malone MVP 96-97. That should have gone to Jordan.


Jordan MVP 97-98. That should have gone to Malone.

[MK2V1GP]

Tim Duncan, MVP, 2002-03 season


I felt that KG did more with less that year and should've won it

Duncan: 23.3 ppg, 12.9 rpg, 3.9 apg, .7 spg, 2.9 bpg, SA was 60-20
Garnett: 23 ppg, 13.4 rpg, 6.0 apg, 1.4 spg, 1.7 bpg, Min was 51-31

They went 2-2 that year.

Duncan won the voting by less than 100 points, 962-871.

You can definitely argue that it was one of those instances where either player could've won it, but to me, especially that year, KG was much more VALUABLE to his team than Duncan was. Just look at who they had surrounding them that season.


KG was stuck with the likes of Peeler, Hudson, Szczerbiak, Gill, Nesterovic, Trent, Wilks, Slater, Joe Smith, Loren Woods, Igor Rakocevic.
Duncan had Robinson, Bowen, Ginobili, Parker, Stephen Jackson, Kerr, Claxton, Willis, Steve Smith, Malik Rose, Ferry.

[swi7ch]

DRose as MVP.

LBJ should have won but the media was angry at him.

[Faptastrophe]

DRose as MVP.

LBJ should have won but the media was angry at him.

I would have voted for Lebron James if I had a vote, but I completely understand why Rose won it. I don't think you could ever find a sane person that would say Rose is better than Lebron, but I get why Rose won MVP. Lebron James is/has been far better than Rose. But the season Chicago had. Rose's impact on a team that won 41 games (09/10), and the hype to go with it really made it an obvious choice for most of the voters. I don't agree with it, but I get it. And i'm fine with Rose getting MVP.

[Eric Cartman]

Kobe should have 3 MVP's as we speak.

[Lebron23]

2006 NBA MVP LeBron James - LBJ actually finished 2nd in the MVP Voting. 31/7/7 at age of 21.

[Maniak]

inb4 Both of Steve Nash's MVPs.

Personally, I go with the time Sam Mitchell won CoTY, mainly because he just got fired shortly after anyways

[dunksby]

Durant's two scoring titles.