By the way, is it just me...
Or does it feel like the NBA is hoping that if they put if off long enough, fans will forget there's supposed to be an MVP and they'll escape the awkwardness of having to present it to expected (and currently humiliated) winner Dirk Nowitzki? Last year, Nash got his trophy during Game 1 against the Clippers (and it's not like the info was sprung on people that day). Here we are now with some second round series already at Game 2 and we still don't know who even won, much less when the hardware is being handed out. Seriously, what's up with that? I'm waiting for David Stern to be asked about this during a Spurs-Suns game and answer with a quick, defensive, "We already said who won," followed by a "Dude, if you don't know, I'm not telling," when pressed with the obvious followup.
By the way, here's my dream scenario for the eventual presentation. They give it to Dirk while he's sitting in a seedy Dallas bar, shot of Jager in one hand, a beer in the other, cigarette in his mouth, stubble beard, hair uncombed, surrounded by a gaggle of escorts. When an obviously mortified David Stern tries to nonchalantly hand him the trophy, Dirk angrily snatches it from him and screams, "Gimme," along with an immediate, "What are you looking at, Davey? I'm the MVP, bitch!" He'll proceed to toss the hardware across the bar, puke, and order another round for him and all his "friends." Then he asks David Stern, in all quizzical sincerity, who won MVP this year.
Ah, were a member of the NBA planning committee!
-AK
Musings...
Kwame...
Ah, forget it.
--Fearless
Posted by: Fearless | May 15, 2007 at 11:03 PM