As I've written before, I hate the association's current crop of nicknames with a passion (except for Blake Griffin's nickname, the Big Zuckerberg). I particularly hate Deron Williams' nickname D-Will. His endorsement of it, in tattoo form, is one of the only things about him that gives me doubts. Luckily, I have a solution to everybody's woes: tax breaks! Just kidding. I've got a new nickname, Most Valuable Player. It's a name Hollinger's Estimated Wins Added and Value Added statistics have already endorsed and, according to my hunches, one Maurice Brooks will endorse soon. In addition to his current 3 streak of 30 point games and his other worldly game play, he has the distinct advantage of who else is there. No one else is doing much. The Magic (and Dwight by extention) are (sorry, is) under-performing, Nowitzki can't keep his pace up, Gasol's tired, and no one else is as valuable to their team as Deron is to his. This has a very good chance of happening if the Jazz finish in the top 3 in the West, and Deron keeps up his game level. The only problem may be that voters decide to reward the Jazz outdoing modest expectations by giving Sloan a much deserved Coach of the Year nod. These prizes seem to work like Oscars: some guy might get the best director Oscar because the Academy felt his film was the runner-up, not because he actually directed the best thing. That's a potential negative. But there's still the question of who they give the award to. This guy?
Is that LBJ?
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