"Major NBA Award Presentation" Thursday, 12:30 pm PST

Darren Collison getting a first place vote is a joke. Gibson and Flynn getting third place votes is also ridiculous. Three players separated them self from the pack and to give those guys a vote is clearly bias.

Congratulations to Evans, simply the best of a great rookie class.
 
Tyreke seems to have been taking public speaking classes. This is the most personable I've ever seen him
 
The press conference was awesome. How exciting!! Congratulations to Tyreke Evans. We all know that you will be a superstar in this league. The Kings are back!!
 
NME said:
The vote breakdown, courtesy of Jason Jones's Twitter:

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Are these results legit?
 
What a joke.

http://espn.go.com/nba/

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/play...?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-100429

No, Brandon Jennings won't win NBA Rookie of the Year -- the Sacramento Kings have a news conference scheduled Thursday to announce Tyreke Evans as the winner.
But as I argued during the regular season, and as we're seeing during the Milwaukee Bucks' surprising postseason run, the experience Jennings is getting is more meaningful than that of his rivals in the great rookie point guard crop of '09, including Evans and Stephen Curry.
 
The Hammer said:
What a joke.

http://espn.go.com/nba/

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/play...?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-100429

No, Brandon Jennings won't win NBA Rookie of the Year -- the Sacramento Kings have a news conference scheduled Thursday to announce Tyreke Evans as the winner.
But as I argued during the regular season, and as we're seeing during the Milwaukee Bucks' surprising postseason run, the experience Jennings is getting is more meaningful than that of his rivals in the great rookie point guard crop of '09, including Evans and Stephen Curry.
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This statement, it could be argued, is factually correct, but it doesn't really serve as anything resembling proof that Jennings should have been ROY. Sure, Jennings is getting valuable experience, but raise your hand if you believe that Evans, or even Curry, couldn't have been just as or more effective on that team?
 
Can we lay to rest the whole 'NBA hates Sacramento and he is going to get screwed out of this award' thing now?
 
ReinadelosReys said:
Tyreke is the only player to get at least a vote from every voter:

Evans: 123
Curry: 116
Jennings: 112
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Curry had 119 if the picture floating around the thread is correct.

All things considered it wasn't terribly close (it would have taken 26 more Evans-Curry 1st-2nd swaps to change the result), but it probably shouldn't have been as close as it was. Tyreke only got 54.5% of the first-place votes - I would have guessed he'd do better than that even after the GS PR push.
 
Capt. Factorial said:
Curry had 119 if the picture floating around the thread is correct.

All things considered it wasn't terribly close (it would have taken 26 more Evans-Curry 1st-2nd swaps to change the result), but it probably shouldn't have been as close as it was. Tyreke only got 54.5% of the first-place votes - I would have guessed he'd do better than that even after the GS PR push.
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You are correct. Typo :o

Evans: 123
Curry: 119
Jennings: 112
 
Capt. Factorial said:
All things considered it wasn't terribly close (it would have taken 26 more Evans-Curry 1st-2nd swaps to change the result), but it probably shouldn't have been as close as it was. Tyreke only got 54.5% of the first-place votes - I would have guessed he'd do better than that even after the GS PR push.
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It absolutely shouldn't have been, but then you only need to read some NBA articles online or flip through the League Pass to realize how many simpletons were in the voting pool.
 
I was curious how the Lebron/Carmelo vote spread compared. That was a similar contest to this year, down to the stats on paper making the two look closer than they were in on-court dominance, and a third player (Wade) in the mix playing spoiler.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1786166

It turns out Lebron managed a bigger percentage of 1st place votes, 78 of 118 for 66%, although there was no other competitor for 1st with Carmelo getting the other 40.

Weirdly enough the overall point total was closer, 508 for Lebron to 430 for Melo.
 
NME said:
It absolutely shouldn't have been, but then you only need to read some NBA articles online or flip through the League Pass to realize how many simpletons were in the voting pool.
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Amen.

I was getting scared at the end. Honestly, Curry had an amazing second 1/2 of the season and could have totally understood if he did end up winning.

Really happy that Tyreke did win it in the end.
 
Yah we all know it should not have been so close....

But on a brighter note, I have finally found how I am going to grow out my hair, I am going for the Petrie look guys, yah I know, pics to follow!
 
Amory said:
Amen.

I was getting scared at the end. Honestly, Curry had an amazing second 1/2 of the season and could have totally understood if he did end up winning.

Really happy that Tyreke did win it in the end.
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I don't get this line of reasoning. What, were we just so used to seeing Tyreke fill the stat sheet, if not dominate, that we were so enamored with Curry's half a season of really good production?

What Curry did in the second half or two thirds of the season was very impressive. I submit that it was not as impressive as what Tyreke did, and even if it was, Tyreke did it all year long. So while giving Curry credit for a good stretch, you're essentially giving credit to Evans for having done so for a longer stretch.

I wonder if this whole "Curry in the second half" angle would have been so popular if Reke hadn't gotten hurt and missed few games at the end of the season.
 
Superman said:
I wonder if this whole "Curry in the second half" angle would have been so popular if Reke hadn't gotten hurt and missed few games at the end of the season.
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I would have been pissed if Tyreke didn't win, but Curry had a ton of 30/10+ games, is more of a flashier player and an awesome passer that gets his teammates involved.

Tyreke was the ONLY choice for the first half. The Kings were doing awesome and at one point we were over .500 (for like a day...). Kings lost a lot of games the second half of the season, Tyreke was out some games, and Curry started to play really really well.

Again, to anyone reading this...Tyreke is who I feel should have won and i am very happy he did! Just saying I can understand why people voted for Curry.
 
Mike Wilbon, a guy who always brings up game 6 of 2002 WCF whenever it's relevant, voted for Curry. I love Wilbon and viewed him as one of the very few bright guys on ESPN, but his vote has got me thinking twice.
 
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