스크랩 race to the MVP (nba.com)

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이번시즌도 거의 코비-르브론의 업치락 뒤치락과, 개인적으로는 내쉬-노비츠키의 다크호스 기대합니다.

1. Kobe Bryant, Lakers (14-3)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
17	36.6	28.8	5.3	4.0	2.3	0.2	.489	.292	.857

Last Week's Rank - 2
시즌끝날때까지 코비-르브론의 MVP1순위 2순위 왔다갔다 거리는것이 지속될것이 분명하다. 물론 그들의 팀성적과 개인성적에 달렸지만. 이번엔 7연승을하고 멋진 스탯을 쌓아올리고있는 코비가 1위에 선정되었다. 연승은 파우가솔의 복귀와 코비가 멋지게 플레이 해줌때문에 지속되고있다. 코비는 계속해서 파우가솔와 앤드류바이넘을 레이커스 공격옵션으로 만들기위해 슛을 적게쏘지만, 어시스트 숫자는 시즌초반보다 늘어가고있다.

(There is a very good chance that the remainder of the season settles in this way, Kobe and LeBron flip-flopping between the top spot and No. 2 based on how their teams do collectively or how they do individually. In this case, Bryant earns his first seat in the throne for two reasons: His teams finds itself on a seven-game win streak and, well, he's really good. The win streak has as much to do with the return of Pau Gasol because Kobe continues to play at a high level. But Bryant is incorporating both Gasol and Andrew Bynum into the Lakers' offense, taking fewer shots but elevating his assist total in the last week.)

2. LeBron James, Cavaliers (13-5)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
18	37.7	28.2	6.8	8.1	1.3	0.7	.518	.333	.783

Last Week's Rank - 1
The Race found it convenient that less than 12 hours after predicting that Shaquille O'Neal could be the one factor that stands in the way of James accumulating every honor out there for the foreseeable future, the Cavs dropped the first game in O'Neal's return from injury. However, they more than redeemed themselves when they forged victories over Dallas and then Phoenix, O'Neal's former team against which you knew he wanted revenge for sullying his reputation. James had 25 and 12 in the Dallas victory, then nearly had a triple-double of 12 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds vs. the Suns.

3. Dirk Nowitzki, Mavs (14-5)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
19	38.1	27.0	8.4	3.1	1.1	1.5	.473	.350	.888

Last Week's Rank - 4
If anybody can understand a bit of what Tiger Woods is going through, it's Nowitzki, who had an entire raft of domestic turmoil become public last year. The German seems to have put those issues behind him -- which were easier to do since he never married the girl -- and a weight seems to have been lifted from Nowitzki. He continues to play at an extremely high level, currently averaging career highs in points (27), assists (3.1) and blocks (1.3). Makes one wonder just how good Tiger can be once he gets past this mess.

4. Carmelo Anthony, Nuggets (14-5)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
19	36.0	30.2	5.9	3.4	1.4	0.3	.489	.353	.869

Last Week's Rank - 5
Anthony continues to be the only player in the league who has scored at least 20 points in each of the game in which he's participated this year. His worst game, in fact, may have come this week, a 22-point, three-rebound, one-assist effort in which he shot just 6-for-17. However, it came during a blowout victory over Dwyane Wade's Miami Heat, which came two days after a 28-point blowout of Golden State. Anthony has helped the Nugs win six of their past seven games and he continues to expand his arsenal. An interesting matchup comes this week, when the Nuggets and Anthony happen to face Philadelphia and newly acquired guard Allen Iverson, Anthony's former teammate.

5. Dwight Howard, Magic (15-4)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
19	32.6	18.2	12.3	1.5	1.0	1.8	.652	---	.568

Last Week's Rank - N/A
Howard has been oddly quiet this year, perhaps in part because he is trying to figure out how to mesh with three other quality players on the floor at the same time. He went two consecutive games without a block a few weeks back, unheard of for the defensive player of the year. But he has been a monster of late, recording 10 consecutive double-doubles, including a 25-point, 20-rebound, four-block effort in a win over Milwaukee last week, a game in which he actually took (and missed) a 3-pointer. The Magic have won nine of 10 to sit atop the East, and Howard's recent contributions should not go unnoticed.

6. Steve Nash, Suns (14-5)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
19	32.3	16.5	2.8	11.5	0.4	0.2	.523	.441	.944

Last Week's Rank - 3
The Suns and Nash have hit hard times, Phoenix getting thumped on back-to-back nights by New York -- yes, the Knicks -- and Cleveland in a matchup against Shaquille O'Neal. The Suns lost by an average of 22 points, and for only the third time this season Nash had back-to-back games of less than double-digit assists. He had a combined 10 turnovers to just 13 assists in those games, an unheard of ratio for him. The Suns get a likely reprieve against Sacramento on Saturday, but the next day they get the Lakers, against whom Nash had one of his worst games of the year.

7. Kevin Durant, Thunder (10-8)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
18	39.3	27.7	7.1	3.3	1.7	0.9	.457	.288	.867

Last Week's Rank - 10
Unlike Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings, who made a brief appearance in The Race, only to then shoot 30 percent and average 11 points less in his next five games, Durant has actually played better. Here is a statistical oddity with him, however: He is averaging a career-high 27.7 points a game, yet his 3-point percentage has gone from 42.2 percent last year to 28.8 percent this year, a significant drop-off -- which means he is required to score far more points inside the arc and at the free throw line. Coincidentally, it is the exact same 3-point percentage he had his rookie season, a difficult anomaly to achieve given the number of shots that are hoisted.

8. Dwyane Wade, Heat (10-8)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
18	38.3	26.7	5.1	5.7	1.9	1.1	.427	.250	.763

Last Week's Rank - 6
Wade obviously remains one of the league's top talents, but, like the Suns, the Heat is struggling. (What is it with the Thermal teams in the month of December? Somewhere in that question is a statistical analysis.) Miami has lost three of its last four and its record has dropped to 10-8. Wade has actually been pretty pedestrian in the recent stretch, and he has shot less than 50 percent from the field in nine of his last 11 games. The Race still doesn't think Wade has a great deal of talent around him; perhaps he – or his opponents -- is starting to realize that.

9. Tim Duncan, Spurs (9-7)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
14	31.9	18.4	11.1	3.6	0.4	2.0	.534	---	.739

Last Week's Rank - N/A
It is obvious that Duncan -- and this incarnation of the Spurs for that matter -- is in the twilight of his career. But after struggling early on, Duncan has manufactured some very impressive games of late, eclipsing 20 points in seven of his last nine games and allowing the Spurs to win five of their past six. He is shooting a career-high 54.9 percent from the field and his rebounds and assists both are up over a year ago. Keep an eye on Duncan as a sleeper -- but that is assuming his teammates remain healthy, a big part of his success at this point.

10. Brandon Roy, Blazers (12-8)

G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
20	37.0	20.0	4.5	5.2	0.6	0.2	.443	.342	.800

Last Week's Rank - 8
This spot could go to a number of people really, and Toronto's Chris Bosh deserves a mention somewhere along the way. But as well as Bosh is playing, The Race finds it difficult to consider among the MVPs a player on a team with a 7-13 record, which should be far better than that. Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson have been downright average, which means that Roy gets this spot almost by default. Roy actually had a very good statistically, averaging 23 points and six assists, but his Blazers are in the midst of a three-game losing streak. Monta Ellis's recent exploits also deserve a mention in here.

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