{"id":300,"date":"2008-09-01T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T06:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kilcher04.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-09-01T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T06:41:42","slug":"a-case-for-birdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Birdy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently the <a href=\"http:\/\/wnba.com\">W<\/a> is now allowing fans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/mvpvote\">vote for MVP<\/a>. Those daily votes would account for 25% of the total tally. Since when had the MVP award been turned into a popularity contest? We have the frikkin&#8217; ASG for that, people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I shudder to think that the award this year would go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/sparks.wnba.com\">SpOrk<\/a> (CP3 or LLL &#8212; I don&#8217;t care, I don&#8217;t like &#8217;em both). <a href=\"http:\/\/storm.wnba.com\">Our<\/a> previous candidate (pre-Olympics) had been reigning MVP Lauren Jackson, who actually had awesome numbers before we all took a break and focused on Beijing. But LJ decided to have surgery on her ankle and that made her unable to complete the regular season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Right now, the bulk of the Storm&#8217;s scoring is being shouldered by (IMHO) the best point guard in the league. Birdy&#8217;s been scoring huge in the last few games (especially the Post-Olympic ones a.k.a. the LJ-less games). Sue sure is stepping up and bringing it big time (22++ points in the last three games, I think) and her leadership is still improving each and every game. I just hope she sustains the hot shooting for the remaining contests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know, I know, the CT Sun&#8217;s Lindsay Whalen is pretty impressive (too bad she&#8217;s injured) and is a frontrunner in the MVP race given that LJ is nowhere on the floor, and SASS&#8217;s Becky Hammon is also deserving of the award, and oh a host of other players that I&#8217;m too lazy to mention now, but Sue Bird actually deserves to be considered too. And not just because she&#8217;s popular or whatever. Because she&#8217;s carrying her team just like how an MVP should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the W is now allowing fans to vote for MVP. Those daily votes would account for 25% of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=300\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,18],"tags":[48,290,323,541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}