Scoop Jackson's Season Awards LOL

page2 has really slipped since Ralph Wiley passed.

 

the new uniform team is ridiculous i dont think anyone wants kidd with his contract and injury issues + they have a decent group of guys for next year and time and time again how many times must we rockets fans say that yao isnt going to go anywhere except houston?

 

Yep Mutombo definately gets paid wayyyyy to much

And Grant Hill really did suck this year compared to last year, of course Carmelo had an even worse year last year and a much better year this year than GH

Since he's got so many crap/useless awards, how about half-season coach of the year, then you can give it to Karl. Maybe he should give the COTY award to a coahc who coached for the entire year

Apart from that, the rest of the awards are stupid, useless, or in the most part, just plain wrong

 

is carmelo getting it for coming back from earlier this season or something? because last year was pretty good to him.

and while i like all his all-nba selections (he may have had the same 15 guys i had in that earlier thread, i'm not sure), having 5 swingmen/guards on the 3rd team was ridiculous.


and i don't get how francis made the all fall-off team? this wasn't a banner year for him by any means (what with kicking incidents and skipping that practice) but he put up some of his best stats ever with 21/7/6 and still was the best player on his team and had the best plus/minus. the other guys suffered real statistical declines and/or sucked or got injured. francis still produced, and produced in the clutch quite often.


and how the hell is yao on the new uniform team for 2006? considering he's still under contract, he can't possibly think we're going to trade him. so i'm lost.

 

well technically he's getting 18 million dollars, which is ridiculous for him even in his prime, or hell just about anybody in their prime. but since we're only paying him 4.5M he's a bargain.

 

i never heard of this Scoop Jackson guy before he came to ESPN

his writing style is awful IMO .....very hard to read without getting a headache

 

So the all NBA 3rd team doesn't have a center...guess they are going with the small line up.

And come back player of the year to Melo? give me ab reak the whiny baby shouldnt get jack..how about my man Grant Hill...didn't even waste my time reading the rest of it after those few lines.

And almost forgot....Yao changin uniforms in 2006 LOL that's all i got to say.

 

Who is Scoop Jackson?

Who is Scoop Jackson? Just wondering, because he's an idiot.

 

I think he's a writer for Slam! Some of this stuff he wrote above is pretty uninformed

 

Who is Scoop Jackson? Well, I think.... "Scoop Jackson is an award-winning journalist who has covered sports and culture for more than 15 years. He is a former editor of Slam, XXL, Hoop and Inside Stuff magazines; and the author of "Sole Provider: 30 Years of NIKE Basketball," "Battlegrounds: America's Street Poets Called Ballers" and "LeBron James: the Chambers of Fear." He resides in Chicago with his wife and two kids."

I don't think the article was as bad as you do. He's been an unapologetic AI/Sixers fan for years. He does apparently need to watch more Rockets games though.

 

All NBA is voted based on positions... 2 Guards, 2 Forwards and a Center... and Scoop Jackson is suppose to be a know-it-all around the NBA?

Anyway, I think Tracy should definitely be ahead of Lebron on the All NBA first team. Although Lebron might have the better stats on paper, but Tracy now plays on both end of the court, that is defence, which is something Lebron tend to rest upon while focusing more on his offensive inputs. Additionally, Tracy has led his team to a 51 win season which compares favourably to Lebron's that missed the playoffs in the East. Not saying that Lerbon isn't good, he is very good infact, but just not better than Tracy this season.

As for Dirk making the All NBA first team, I think basing on the regular season, he deserves a spot there if not close to it. Obviously his playoff games so far aren't up to par, but that has no bearing on the All NBA selection.

Yao should be the All NBA third team's center, this time behind Shaq and Amare. Just my 2 cents.

-G'day-

 

Wow.

Yao Ming in a new Uni? The only way I see that happening is if he hits the gym hard and has to go up a size.

I really can't stand these 'hype' writers. You can always tell who they are when they prop 'street cred' players (usually Eastern Conference) like AI.

J

 

He's been around for the past decade, mostly in print. He sees himself as equal parts sports writer, beat poet, and "the man who'll say things the man doesn't want to hear".

He annoys the fool out of me more times than not - I learned to skip past his columns and interviews a long time back.

His awards aren't that horrible though. I'd quibble with some of the all-NBA, but the only ones I think are dumb are Melo over Hill for comeback (I mean, is he serious? Did he just forget?), the Mutombo thing (he got bought out of that contract sevral years ago, for heaven's sake), and the Yao new uni bit. Where did that garbage come from? His Kobe/Lakers woodie? He's also delusion if he still think Webber's coming back.

Evan

 

Center? They don't even have a power forward.

And, a journalist calling himself 'Scoop' has to be just about the tackiest thing I've seen in sports.

 

I'm so sick of seeing Ray Allen above Tmac on the all nba team. The sonics have like 4 guys who are having their best year ever, and they won one more game than us. Tmac has better stats, and has led us to 3 victories against Allen's team.

 

BTW, SLAM, while Scoop here was aboard, was over-eager to make fun of Yao his rookie year. The first issue from that season was vicious and made it clear, in my eyes, that they were wanting him to be the next big butt-of-all-jokes (Bradely, Dare, Bul, etc).

They ate crow, just like Barkley, and eventually gave him a co-cover with Steve, but still were very closed on giving him positive pub.

Evan

 

he thinks yao is getting traded this offseason? even those who hate yao know thats not going to happen.

he put tmac on the all 4Q team. tmac finaly getting some props for being clutch.

deke is on the "give $ back" team. we are only paying him the minimum. maybe he should give $ back to the nets or knicks (whoever is paying the other 17 million to him this year)

has sura as MIP. i like that idea. maybe he should get it, even though it looks like wade or amare are shoe-ins.

 

Scoop sucks monkey balls