SLAM’s Lang Whitaker released his annual Slammy awards where he dolls out awards in categories that are slightly more interesting than “All-NBA First Team”. He has one award called the “The LVP Award”
FOR: The allegedly important player whose absence least affected his team.
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This year he gave the nod to Joe Johnson.
2007 WINNER: Joe Johnson
J-Double is my man, but he wins this one hands-down since the Hawks stunk with him and stunk without him. Not his fault, really, but hopefully Joe understands he’s joining some great company with the previous winners of this award.
RUNNER UPS: Baron Davis, Peja Stojakovic, Michael Redd
Are you kidding me giving runner-up status to Michael Redd? The Bucks won 5 games without him, 5 games out of 27! How could he mean more to the team? They were surging through December and then he got hurt and the entire season went down the tubes.
It’s outrageous to give Redd the LVP. He’s clearly the guy that makes the Bucks tick.
1 response so far ↓
1 Dean // Nov 30, 2007 at 10:32 am
I know this is an old post that i found while Google searching for LVP awards but…
Who the hell is this clown? His criteria should be based on negatively effective the team, like Stephon Marbury is in NY right now. Totally agree that Redd shouldn’t be ANYWHERE near that list… and also Baron Davis? The warriors are horrid without him, (look at their record when Baron is injured) Also, I’m no Peja fan, but I can think of about 10-20 worse players in the league… Look at Jermaine O’Neil right now, who’s pacers are 4-1 with him injured.
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