NBA Prediction Thread (MVP,DPY,ROY, Champion, etc.)

MVP - Kevin Garnett
ROY - Lebron James (will have to fall on his face not to win)
DPY - Kevin Garnett

Finals: Dallas vs Philadelphia

Champions: Dallas

Garnett seems to get better each year.

 

The NBA Champion will be the Rockets or the Nets?? You're as good at NBA predictions as you are at being a lawyer!

MVP - Duncan, mainly because Shaq won't have to do as much with Payton and Malone on the team

Defensive Player of the Year - Gary Payton - without having to score as much, he'll give even more effort on defense

ROY - LeBron - He might jack up 25 shots per night, but he'll get his points, and he has Magic like court vision

Most improved player - Kelvin Cato ...This is a tough award to predict, but he's shown the most improvement under Van Gundy so far, and he might be an even bigger force if he plays alongside Yao

Coach of the year - Paul Silas

Sixth Man (one you forgot) - Brad Miller...another tough award to predict, but with Vlade getting older, Miller will get the majority of minutes, though he'll still be coming off the bench

Midwest Winner - San Antonio
Pacific Winner - Lakers
Central Winner - Detroit
Atlantic Winner - New Jersey

Most likely to be behind bars at season's end...uhhh...I'll get back to you on that one

Coach most likely to be fired at season's end - Terry Porter

NBA Finals - Lakers over Pistons

 

MVP - Dirk

Defensive Player of the Year - Artest

Rookie of the Year - Darko

Most Improved Player - Vin

Coach of the Year - Donnie

Midwest Division Winner - Dallas

Most likely to be behind bars by seasons's end - Kobe

Coach Most likely to be fired by seasons' end - Porter

Eastern Conference Champion - 76ers

Western Conference Champion - Spurs

NBA Champion- Spurs

 

Im going to go out on a limb with my picks:

Atlantic: Nets
Central: Pistons
MidWest: Spurs
Pacific: Lakers

EC Champion: NJ Nets over Pistons

WC Champion: Spurs over Lakers

NBA Champions: Nets

MVP: Duncan (I think hell really shine w/o Robinson)

DOY: Wallace (not many people come close)

ROY: Anthony (I cant believe people are picking James over him)

6th Man: Rose

Comeback Player of the Year: Mourning

1st coach to be fired: O'Brien

 

MVP: Garnett

Defensive player of the year: Ben Wallace

Most improved player: Nene (IMO Denver will be alot better this year. And hopefully Andre Miller will get back to being the player he was in Cleveland. I think he will benefit alot from having better players around him, and being on a better team.)

Rookie of the year: LeBron James (tough call... from what I have seen from Carmello it will be a very close race... But I'm going with Bron)

Coach of the year: Phil Jackson (hate to say it, but IMO the Lakers will be almost unstoppable. I fu*king hate the fakers, so I truly hope that the Spurs, kings, wolves, mavs or of course the Rox knock them off. But realistically I don't think none of them can really do it)

Midwest division: San Antonio Spurs

Pacific division: LA Lakers

Central Division: Detroit Pistons

Atlantic Division: NJ Nets

Most likely to be behind bars: One of the JailBlazers.... Let's say Patterson... For assault on Woods and Randolph or something....

Coach most likely to be fired by season's end: Tim Floyd

Eastern conference champions: NJ Nets

Western conference champions: Lakers

NBA champions: Lakers

 

If the Rockets manage to fight their way past all the kickass teams in the Western conference playoffs and proceed to lose to some also-ran out of the East, I would slit....someone else's wrists. Maybe just punch a wall. Rest assured, I would be upset.

 

Houston Rockets 2003-2004 Champs, i seriouly think the rockets will make the finals

 

MVP - TiMVP Duncan

Defensive Player of the Year - Kevin Garnett

Rookie of the Year - Carmello Anthony

Most Improved Player - Manu Ginobili

Coach of the Year - Rick Adelman

Midwest Division Winner - San Antonio Spurs

Pacific Division Winner - Los Angeles Lakers

Central Division Winner - Detroit Pistons

Atlantic Division Winner - New Jersey Nets

Most likely to be behind bars by seasons's end - Ron Artest

Coach Most likely to be fired by seasons' end - Tim Floyd

Eastern Conference Champion - New Jersey Nets

Western Conference Champion - San Antonio Spurs

NBA Champion - San Antonio Spurs, it's REPEAT, baby !

 

I can't believe nobody predicted this yet:

MVP: Dynasty! Runner up Duncan.

Most Improved Player: Dynasty! Runner up Kelvin Cato.

 

Phil Jackson has only won one coach of the year award, and it took 72 victories to get it. Coach of the year is usually given to the coach that gets the most out of the least talent. Right now, that's either Silas, Musselman, Cartwright, Stotts, or Sloan

 

MVP=Kevin Garnett
Most Improved Player=Vince Carter
Breakout year=Kelvin Cato (surprise)
ROY=Dwayne Wade or T.J. Ford
Midwest=Dallas
Pacific=LA Lakers
Atlantic=?
Central=?
Defesive player of the year=Ben Wallace
Coach of the Year=Jeff Van Gundy
WCF=LA Lakers and Houston Rockets(surprise team of the year)
ECF= New Jersey and Indiana Pacers
FINALS=LA Lakers and Indiana Pacers
Champs=LA Lakers

 

MVP - Tim Duncan

Defensive Player of the Year - Ben Wallace

Rookie of the Year - Carmello Anthony

Most Improved Player - Zach Randolph

Coach of the Year - Jeff Van Gundy

Midwest Division Winner - Dallas Mavericks

Pacific Division Winner - Los Angeles Lakers

Central Division Winner - Sacramento Kings

Atlantic Division Winner - New Jersey Nets

Most likely to be behind bars by seasons's end - Kobe Bryant

Coach Most likely to be fired by seasons' end - Porter

Eastern Conference Champion - New Jersey Nets

Western Conference Champion - Dallas Mavericks

NBA Champion - New Jersey Nets

 

MVP- Tim Duncan

DPOY- Ben Wallace

ROY- King James

Most Improved- Mike Dunleavy Jr

Coach of the year- Jeff Van Gundy

Midwest- Dallas Mavericks

Pacific- Sacramento Kings

Central- Indiana

Atlantic- Orlando Magic

Most likely Behind Bars- Kobe Bryant

Coach Most Likely fired- O'brien/ Boston Celtics

Eastern Conference Champs- Orlando Magic

Western Conference Champs- Dallas Mavericks

NBA Finals- Dallas Mavericks over Orlando Magic

 

MVP - Shaq

DPOY - Yao (way more intimidating than Big Ben)

ROY - Mello

Most Improved - Yao Ming

Coach of the Year - Jeff Van Gundy

Midwest - Dallas

Pacific - Kings

Central - Detroit

Atlantic - New Jersey

Eastern Champs - Orlando beats Detroit

Western Champs - Lakers beat Rockets

NBA Champs - Lakers beat Orlando

 

MVP - Tim Duncan

Defensive Player of the Year - Ben Wallace

Rookie of the Year - Carmello Anthony

Most Improved Player - Zach Randolph or Andrei Kirilenko

Coach of the Year - Gregg Poppovich

Midwest Division Winner - San Antonio Spurs

Pacific Division Winner - Sacramento Kings

Central Division Winner - Detroit Pistons

Atlantic Division Winner - New Jersey Nets

Eastern Conference Champion - New Jersey Nets

Western Conference Champion - San Antonio Spurs

NBA Champion - San Antonio Spurs

 

3814:

I don't think the Kings play in the Central Division...

 

MVP - Kevin Garnett

Defensive Player of the Year - Yao Ming

Rookie of the Year - Carmello Anthony

Most Improved Player - Zach Randolph

Coach of the Year - Jeff Van Gundy

Midwest Division Winner - Spurs

Pacific Division Winner - Los Angeles Lakers

Central Division Winner - Detroit Pistons

Atlantic Division Winner - New Jersey Nets

Most likely to be behind bars by seasons's end - Darrell Armstrong

Coach Most likely to be fired by seasons' end - Don Nelson

Eastern Conference Champion - Boston Celtics

Western Conference Champion - Lakers

NBA Champion - Houston Rockets of course

 

My picks are:

MVP - Shaq if healthy and motivated otherwise Tim to repeat.

Defensive Player of the Year - Mutombo if healthy, motivated, gets minutes otherwise Ben to repeat.

Rookie of the Year - Le Bron even if he continues shooting bricks, the hype will carry him over the line over Carmelo.

Most Improved Player - Yao Ming if the pre-season is the glimpse then I can't wait for the full display in the season.

Coach of the Year - Jeff Van Gundy in a close ballot if he gets the Rox to the play-offs.

Midwest Division Winner - Spurs too consistent to trip up although a late Dallas surge (10-12 wins in a row type) may catch them on the line.

Pacific Division Winner - LAL because home-court will be important this year plus the Kings losses too much without C-Webb in the line-up on opening day.

Central Division Winner - Pistons

Atlantic Division Winner - Nets

Eastern Conference Champion - Nets

Western Conference Champion - Spurs. Until someone can neutralize TD and his role players at the same time at 4 play-off games in a series, then Spurs like the inevitable tide will roll through the Finals. They don't have the mystique or aura of the Bulls or the Piston championship teams yet but they are effective.

NBA Champion - Spurs. Anybody coming out of the East will be cannon fodder. Ever since the dominant teams of the Bulls and Pistons have gone, the West have reigned supreme.

 

Testify, brother!!!

Some accolades (in totally random order):

Comeback player of the year: Vin Baker
Executive of the year: Danny Ainge
Most improved player: Kedrick Brown
Most valuable player: Paul Pierce
Sixth man award: Tony Battie
All-rookie first team: Marcus Banks
Coach of the year: Jim O'Brien
Starting center for ASE: Raef LaFrentz