NBA 2009-2010 Season Thread

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Brooks named coach of the year

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks was named NBA coach of the year on Wednesday.

Brooks guided the team to a 50-32 record, a 27-game improvement over the last season, and its first playoff appearance since the 2004-05 season, when the club was in Seattle.

He received 71 first-place votes from a panel of 123 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Scott Skiles of Milwaukee was second while Nate McMillan of Portland finished third.

With the NBA's youngest roster, Brooks guided the team to the playoffs in his first full year with the club. He was named interim coach early in the 2008-09 season and got the job permanently just before the season was over.

Oklahoma City is in an 0-2 hole to the Lakers in its first-round playoff matchup after dropping the first two games in Los Angeles.

04/21 17:34:13 ET

The Sports Network - National Basketball Association

[vcmov_15]

he got the trophy for leading OKC to a big turnaround from last season.... if wala pato nahitabo i think coach nate mcmillan deserves it.. he leads portland to the playoffs with almost all players down with injuries sometime during the course of the season... including him when he tried filling in sa practice para lang jud maka practice sila ingun ana ka brutal ang giagian sa portland...

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Dwight Howard repeats as NBA's top defensive player



ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dwight Howard has won his second straight NBA defensive player of the year award after becoming the only player to lead the league in blocks and rebounds in the same season twice -- let alone in consecutive years.

Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy and players confirmed the All-Star center will accept the award at a news conference Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET.

"I think it's a well-deserved honor," Van Gundy said. "He's the most impactful defensive player."

Howard averaged 13.2 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game this season, powering the Magic to the league's second-best record behind Cleveland. Only Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon and Ben Wallace each led the NBA in those categories once in the same season. Blocks were not kept as an official statistic until 1973.

Howard already was the youngest player to win the award last season. Now 24, players and coaches believe he could take the honors for years to come.

Full article here at ESPN

D12 ROCKS...

[Motownkid]

Aaron Brooks named NBA's Most Improved Player



HOUSTON -- Aaron Brooks likes proving doubters wrong, and he did it this season, even though the Houston Rockets could not.

The speedy, 6-foot point guard was named the NBA's Most Improved Player on Thursday, after setting career highs in points (19.6 per game), assists (5.3) and rebounds (2.6). His scoring average went up 8.4 points from 2008-09, the highest increase of any qualifying player.

The Rockets finished 42-40 and missed the playoffs, an expected outcome after Yao Ming missed the season with a foot injury. Brooks ably picked up the offensive slack in Yao's absence, starting all 82 games while the roster seemed to be in flux all season.

"I didn't go into the season to win a big award like this," Brooks said. "I would love to be in the playoffs with this award, but due to the circumstances, we didn't get there. But this is a great award.

"This is a great accomplishment for me, one of the most important awards I've earned in my life."

full article here at ESPN

[vcmov_15]

sus pulos brooks ang nakakuha ug award aahaha scott brooks for coach of the year and arron brooks for the most improve player..

[Motownkid]

Stern warns coaches and players to quit griping about refs




OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- NBA commissioner David Stern is tired of coaches and players griping about the officiating, and challenged them Thursday to "make my day" by continuing to complain during the rest of the playoffs.

The league handed out fines of $35,000 apiece on Thursday to Boston Celtics forward Rasheed Wallace, Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy and Orlando forward Matt Barnes for publicly criticizing officials. A week earlier, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson was fined $35,000 for suggesting that Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant received preferential treatment from NBA referees.

Speaking before the Thunder hosted the Lakers, Stern said such comments were "corrosive" to the product that the league is putting on the floor. He said he understands why coaches try to work the officials through the media, but that the result is such comments undermine consumer confidence in the league's product.

"So, our coaches should be quiet because this is a good business that makes them good livings and supports a lot of families," Stern said. "And if they don't like it, they should go get a job someplace else. I don't mean to be too subtle."

"And if someone wants to try me in the rest of this playoffs, you know, make my day. Because the game is too important and I don't think that the people who trash it are respecting it, and we'll do what we have to do -- the players and coaches alike -- because they give the impression to our fans that the referees somehow have an agenda."

read full article here - NBA.com

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Stern warns coaches and players to quit griping about refs




OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- NBA commissioner David Stern is tired of coaches and players griping about the officiating, and challenged them Thursday to "make my day" by continuing to complain during the rest of the playoffs.

The league handed out fines of $35,000 apiece on Thursday to Boston Celtics forward Rasheed Wallace, Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy and Orlando forward Matt Barnes for publicly criticizing officials. A week earlier, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson was fined $35,000 for suggesting that Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant received preferential treatment from NBA referees.

Speaking before the Thunder hosted the Lakers, Stern said such comments were "corrosive" to the product that the league is putting on the floor. He said he understands why coaches try to work the officials through the media, but that the result is such comments undermine consumer confidence in the league's product.

"So, our coaches should be quiet because this is a good business that makes them good livings and supports a lot of families," Stern said. "And if they don't like it, they should go get a job someplace else. I don't mean to be too subtle."

"And if someone wants to try me in the rest of this playoffs, you know, make my day. Because the game is too important and I don't think that the people who trash it are respecting it, and we'll do what we have to do -- the players and coaches alike -- because they give the impression to our fans that the referees somehow have an agenda."

read full article here - NBA.com

It's about freakin' time he put his foot down on this.

[Motownkid]

Phil Jackson fights back Stern's "Make My Day" warning



OKLAHOMA CITY -- Round 1 went to David Stern on Thursday night when the NBA commissioner went Dirty Harry style and dared coaches and players to "make my day" by publicly criticizing game officials. He said they risked not just a fine but a suspension.

On Friday, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson fought back.

"I think when you start throwing one- and two-game suspensions in the threats, I think that means a lot to both ball clubs and coaches," Jackson said at Lakers practice. "It seems awful heavy-handed to me, but David is one who isn't shy about being heavy-handed."

Stern singled out Jackson and Miami Heat president Pat Riley as two coaches he would serve with harsher penalties than fines if he had the chance to go back 20 years and respond to their criticism of the referees again.

"In that instance, Pat started out by saying [Michael] Jordan got all the calls and got to the foul line all the time, that blatantly," Jackson said, describing a public battle of barbs between the two when Riley was coaching the New York Knicks and Jackson was coaching the Chicago Bulls in the early 1990s. "And I said, 'You should talk, Patrick Ewing travels every time he goes to the basket,' so we went tit for tat when it started like that. Now that's pretty blatant.

"Saying that Kevin Durant probably doesn't deserve all the foul calls he gets, what I said, he probably doesn't earn all the foul shots he takes, I don't know if that's as blatant as saying what Pat said about Michael Jordan."

But Jackson couldn't stop himself from getting at least one jab in at the officials, even though he admitted that he doesn't think any of his comments made over the years gained him any favorable edge when it came to how referees called his games.

"You know, I know that the referees take an eye test, I don't know if they take a reading test," Jackson said.

Jackson also wanted to clear up his brief meeting with Stern prior to Game 3 at the Ford Center. Stern described it as, "I just came by and said, 'Hi,' and he said, 'I don't like you today,' and I said, 'I like you.'"

"We ran into each other in the hallway ... I did not say I didn't like him. I said, 'I'm not happy with you,' is what I said and he said, 'I'm happy with you,'" Jackson explained. "He misquoted the exchange."

read full story here | ESPN

[Hat Trick]

balik na duwa brandon roy..mayta kadaog..

[tackielarla]

balik na duwa brandon roy..mayta kadaog..

Well that is good news.