Sheridan Hoops staff predictions, continued.
In this installment, we make our predictions for the winner of the Sixth Man Award. At the bottom of the page, you can click over to our choices for Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Most Improved Player.
We also made picks for East champ, West champ and NBA champion.
Your comments are welcome in the comments section.
EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR
GLEN GRUNWALD, NEW YORK
Chris Sheridan, Editor-in-Chief
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Mark Heisler, Senior Columnist
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Chris Bernucca, Managing Editor; Senior Columnist
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Jan Hubbard, Senior Columnist
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Moke Hamilton, Senior Columnist
PAT RILEY, MIAMI
Chris Perkins, Columnist
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Adam Zagoria, Columnist
BILLY KING, BROOKLYN
Jim Park, Blogger
DANNY FERRY, ATLANTA
Jeremy Bauman, Blogger
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Joe Kotoch, Draft Guru
MITCH KUPCHAK, L.A. LAKERS
Brian Geltzeiler, Executive Producer, SheridanHoopsRadio
Most Valuable Player | Rookie of the Year | Coach of the Year | Defensive Player of the Year | Sixth Man Award | Most Improved Player | East Champs | West Champs | NBA Champion
Kupchak. Nash and Howard trades changed the look of the season and reinforced the Lakers’ position as the Yankees of basketball and not just being Kobe’s Team. Probably unfair on Billy King who seems to have done stirling work to create a competitive team out of three-fifths of nothing.
Park is hilarious. Danny Ferry. Sure, whatever, dude.
Danny Ferry is actually my top choice too. He moved Joe Johnson’s atrocious contract (Sorry Brooklyn, but you’re the new Atlanta Hawks forever stuck in the 4-6 seed range), got out of Marvin Williams deal to get an average guard (Devin Harris) on an expiring deal and then stole Kyle Korver because the Bulls had their hands tied with their cap situation. The Louis Williams signing also replaces the scoring lost with Joe Johnson.
The Billy King pick is laughable. He managed to put together one of the worse defensive teams of all time, but I suppose you can say at least they can be a 6-8 seed.
By that logic, a GM joke like Jim Paxson should have been named Executive of the Year for moving Shawn Kemp’s contract. Sorry, man, Ferry is atrocious. He single-handedly destroyed the Cavaliers, and he’s going to obliterate the Hawks. 10-1 odds he tries to lure Lou Hudson and Dominique Wilkens out of retirement.