Race Not an Issue in MVP Voting

2007/10/20 02:29:30 @NBA.com: News

In SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Jack McCallum writes "It's about four months too early for a discussion about the MVP voting and about 40 years too late for a discussion about race. But what the heck ... let's have one anyway. A recent post on a Web site called Cosellout raises the point (not for the first time) that the Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash is praised too highly -- by media and fans -- because he is white, and that his skin color probably had a lot to do with the back-to-back MVPs he won in 2005 and 2006.”
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