All signs point towards Sean Deveney being an idiot
September 23, 2007 – 12:53 amIt turns out a lot of people had beef over his “nba’s most overpaid” article.
I’d like to specifically call out his bias towards fat shaq and the player he formally was. it is this kind of blind bias that enables a basically inactive at-the-time Shaq to make the NBA all-star team and keeps a superior player like Eddy Curry off the all star team.
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Shaq was brought up numerous times on the web and in my e-mails. He’s 35, he makes $20 million, he missed 66 games in two years and his team was swept in the first round of last year’s playoffs.
All true. The Heat did not get its money’s worth out of O’Neal last year. But he remains the league’s most intimidating inside force and his production, when healthy, was not terrible (17.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, 59.1 percent shooting).”
Okay, those are the “intimidating” numbers that got shaq on the all-star team. Let’s take a look at Eddy Curry’s numbers from the same season.
19.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 57.6 percent shooting. Most importantly, Eddy Curry played and started 81 regular games this season, shaq a mere 40. Now who is the true force in the league? Apparently Shaq, D Wade and Riley all think they can coast through the regular season, taking vacations while other teams are working hard to come back in may and vie for a title. I knew then as I know now, it doesn’t work that way. If you are going to beat the best, you have to put in the hard work in the regular season, and not just rely on your “dominant” history, expecting people to hand you a trophy in June.
Like the NBA slogan of a few years ago, “the truth be told,” and this year the truth will be told about the knicks. The truth is that right now, nobody is giving the Knicks a chance this year, let’s just see what happens once the ball goes up on November 1st.
