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Aca de Belgrano. No me queda claro si hinchas por Manu o no......Amiga
De Buenos Aires. San Ididro.
And that's why I don't give a about individual awards, they're all about the ing stats, I think that Manu being better than Barbosa last year (or this one for that matter) is out of the question, despite the goddamn stats...
PS: I'm sorry, I know I said I wasn't posting here anymore, now I'm definitely out of here
Aca de Belgrano. No me queda claro si hinchas por Manu o no......Amiga
De Buenos Aires. San Ididro.
Whats with the, "We all know he is a starter" BS, Go down that list of past winners and any of them could be a starter for some other team the year they won it. Congrats to Manu.
I wonder who that one and only tool that gave him a second place.
Well first, they determine how many games the player came of the bench. In those games, they calculate the number of points rebounds assists etc. Last year, Ginobli started most of the games therefore other players had more points, rebounds, assists etc. because they came off the bench in more games.
I'm sure Manu will be proud to pick up his "Best Player Not Good Enough to Start" award.
Wow...........
No surprise he won. Congrats to Manu!!!
The one guy who didn't vote for him can eat a .
Congrats to Manu.
I'm sure Manu will be proud to pick up his "Best Player Not Good Enough to Start" award.
Again..what part of manu's worlds not undestand??????
"No me siento un 6to hombre".
"I don't feel a 6th man"
Not a price from him, mh?
No more congratulations.
Holy crap.
This must be how Michael Jordan felt when his kid dunked on him for the first time.
How Shakespeare felt when Willie, Jr. found a better couplet.
How Angelina felt when little Zahara collected her first vial of blood.
Maybe I should start reading your posts.
Manu hung just so to compose the release, GAMEOVER.
"Before I recieved this award, I always felt that it would not be that important or compare to winning a Championship trophy. But now, with the recognition that I have gotten from the writers and my peers I have to say that I am sure it is pretty worthless. I think that I'll wrap some yarn around it and let my cat play with it. Perhaps I can trade it for a plate of Fajitas at Alamo Cafe...."
Manu Ginobili on getting the news he was awarded the 6th man of the year award.
Spurs’ Ginobili wins sixth man award
By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago
SAN ANTONIO (AP)—San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili—good enough to be a starter on about any team—won the NBA’s sixth man award given to the league’s best reserve on Monday.
Ginobili led the Spurs in scoring, averaging a career-high 19.5 points to go with 4.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists. Ginobili came off the bench in 51 of the 74 games he played this season.
“I really don’t care about coming from the bench if that helps the team to win a championship,” Ginobili said.
The Spurs have a 1-0 lead over the Phoenix Suns in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. Suns guard Leandro Barbosa won the award last year and Ginobili came in second.
“He’s one of the better players in the NBA, who just happens to come off the bench,” said Spurs starting guard Michael Finley. “Any other team in the league, he’d probably be starting, but for him to come off the bench and put his ego aside it just shows what kind of team we have, and more importantly what kind of player and All-Star he is.”
Ginobili got 123 of 124 first-place votes for 615 points. Barbosa came in second with 283 points and the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Terry was third with 44.
“It was no race. Just like, when (is it) going to happen,” said Spurs point guard Tony Parker. “He was our best player all year long.”
The 6-foot-6 guard who gives the team a boost of energy off the bench. He was drafted by the Spurs in 1999 in the second round with the 57th overall pick. The Argentinian has been with the team for three of its four le runs.
“That is what I’m going to remember when I retire, the rings I have,” Ginobili said. “Not the fact I played 28 minutes or 33 or my name being called in the starting lineup. That’s not going to make the difference in 10 to 15 years.”
Ginobili enters the game, usually about midway through the first quarter, to huge roars from the crowd when the Spurs announcer yells “Here comes Manu!”
“I just consider myself a player, a team player,” Ginobili said. “So this year he (Spurs coach Gregg Popovich) thought it was more important for me to come from the bench, so I just try to do it the best way I can.”
Popovich gave all the credit to Ginobili, who is the first Spurs player to win the award.
“Manu is a person who’s much more concerned with the group than he is about himself,” Popovich said. “He got over himself a long time ago. … I don’t think there are too many All-Stars that coaches in this league can go to and say, ‘You’ve been great. Now you’re going to come off the bench.’ So I’m very fortunate.”
Ginobili shot better than 40 percent from 3-point range in his sixth regular NBA season and when he drives the lane—routinely picking up bumps and bruises along the way—he’s known for putting the ball in from seemingly impossible angles.
“Before I got here I used to think those shots that he made were luck, and what we called, when I was growing up, fluke shots,” Finley said. “Now that I’m his teammate and I see him on a daily basis, that’s his game.”
Ginobili hit the game winning layup in the Spurs’ Game 1 win over the Suns on Saturday with 1.8 seconds on the clock in double overtime.
The last sixth man award winner to lead his team in scoring was Milwaukee’s Ricky Pierce. He averaged 23 points when he won the award in 1990.
Great Manu.
Awards are not for the gods.
Oh man the hatred just went from Tony to Finley now.
Congrats, Manu!
Manu happy returns in NBA Sixth Man voting
Posted: April 21, 2008, 2:54 PM by Bruce Arthur
Basketball, NBA
So Manu Ginobili is the sixth man of the year, according to 123 of a possible 124 voters on the award, with last year's winner, Phoenix guard Leandro Barbosa, getting the other one. Now, to put this in perspective, Ginobili will receive several MVP votes this year, and the scintillating Spurs swingman will deserve them. He might even finish fifth, behind the sainted foursome of Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul and LeBron James. So if Ginobili was that good — and make no mistake, he might be the world's second-best balding athlete, behind only Tiger Woods — how in the was he not unanimous?
Well, because of two things. One, as Homer Simpson once said, democracy doesn't work. And two, the voting is done by a panel of writers and broadcasters who cover the league, and no offence to my friends in the electronic media, but broadcasters always, always, always are the guys who screw this kind of thing up. When Chris Paul was the consensus rookie of the year three years ago, the lone dissenting vote belonged to Utah Jazz broadcaster Ron Boone, who voted for Utah's Deron Williams. When Brandon Roy was clearly the league's best rookie last season, Toronto's own Chuck Swisky cast the lone vote for Andrea Bargnani. That particular vote, like Bargnani, looks worse today.
It might not have been a broadcaster who cast the rogue vote, so we'll wait for the results. But whoever didn't put Ginobili No. 1 did not list him on their ballot at all. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this person should never be allowed to vote for anything ever again. Or be allowed to drive a car.
That was too good.
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