Network Bar

NBA GMs Understand Saint Kevin, Have Lost Faith In Deron Williams

by Tom Ziller • Jan 17, 2012 1:45 PM EST

NBA.com has published the results of its fascinating annual GM survey. The league's media arm asks the 30 NBA general managers a littany of questions about the league's players, coaches and teams, and then published most of the results anonymously.

Perhaps most interesting is the GMs' collective recognition of how this whole MVP thing works.

When asked who would be voted MVP of the 2011-12 season by the media, 55.6 percent of respondents said Kevin Durant. LeBron James received all other votes. But when asked who was the league's best small forward, 77.8 percent of respondents answered LeBron, while Saint Kevin picked up 18.5 percent. (Carmelo Anthony inexplicably picked up a vote. Who sent Glenn Grunwald's ballot to Isiah Thomas?)

So LeBron is clearly seen as better than Durant ... but GMs expect Durant to win MVP. Sounds right.

The other highly notable result comes from the "best point guard" question. Last year, Deron Williams finished No. 1 with 50 percent of the vote. This year, Deron Williams finished ... tied with everyone not named Derrick Rose, Chris Paul or Russell Westbrook, for D-Will did not receive one vote for best PG. Rose took the category with 59.3 percent of the vote, CP3 followed with 37 percent and Westbrook picked up one vote.

The Nets: dragging down their best players since Two Thousand Forever.

Do you like this post?

Next Post: Serena Williams Doesn't Like Bugs, Doesn't Want To Play At Night

Previous Post: A Year Ago, Alex Smith Was Ready To Leave The 49ers For Good

Comments

Yeah hello. Andre Iguodala didn’t receive one vote for best perimeter defender. I’d say that blows. A lot.

Dante Nelson-Staff Writer at "The Sixer Sense" and "Hardcourt Mayhem"
Follow on Twitter @Dantewrites

by Dalanel on Jan 17, 2012 4:57 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

Kyle Lowry

should be getting some love for best point guard.

flayed ones stealth mode

"Fleshling! Do not shoot! For I am one of you fleshy things. It is I. Your Uncle Stan. Can't you tell by the long strips of fleshy substances covered in bodily fluids? Trust me! I have fleeeeeeeeesh."

by mob16151 on Jan 17, 2012 5:33 PM EST reply actions

Still underrated, but best in the league....really?

by tw10 on Jan 19, 2012 10:39 PM EST up reply actions

ok guy

So disregard the Nets back-to-back finals years and 4 division titles in the 2000’s? You get paid to write those ignorant comments?

by preludepunk27 on Jan 17, 2012 5:48 PM EST via Android app reply actions

Really guy?

Chill out and go talk about how good next year will be.

by fear and loathing with dock ellis on Jan 17, 2012 10:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Yeah and the Kings are still awesome too!

"We're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence." - Chris Webber vs KAHN!

by caseycheesecake on Jan 18, 2012 4:24 PM EST up reply actions

"We're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence." - Chris Webber vs KAHN!

by caseycheesecake on Jan 18, 2012 4:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

WOW!

A whole division title??!
All by themselves?!?!
and only 10 years ago?
The Nets must be really awesome

by mrmadrew on Jan 19, 2012 10:37 PM EST up reply actions

MVP voting

Sounds right to me. Being the MVP shouldn’t be about being the best in the NBA, it should be about being the MOST VALUABLE player on your team. IMO Kevin is more valuable to OKC than LeBron is to Miami.

by Coach Couch on Jan 18, 2012 3:41 PM EST reply actions

Lebron James is the most productive and talented player in the league. He should always be in the conversation for MVP, but you can’t marginalize the fact that he isn’t viewed as the leader on his own team. Intangibles like leadership matter and I don’t know if he is a top 5 or 10 in the intangible department. Having a star player who is a leader, a clutch player, and fiery competitor can lift an entire team. That isn’t a shot at Lebron, he can be all those things, but the fact that such an awesome player isn’t consistently any of those things makes me question his value.

by Idann87 on Jan 19, 2012 3:01 AM EST reply actions