Durant named NBA Rookie of the Year
Today it was announced that Seattle Oklahoma City Sonics forward Kevin Durant has won the annual Rookie of the Year award. Atlanta Hawks head coach Mike Woodson doesn’t agree.
“It’s a travesty and it’s not right,” Woodson said Wednesday night before Atlanta’s Game 5 loss to Boston, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He should have shared it, if not gotten it outright. And I don’t want to hear about us not being on TV or anything like that. It doesn’t matter. It’s what this kid has done for this team.
“We haven’t had a power forward/center come in our league and do what he’s done [average a double-double] in I don’t know how many years. I mean, come on, man.”
I have to agree that Al Horford was and is the better player. Sure Kevin Durant averaged 20+ points per game, but he did have the green light to shoot whenever he felt like it. I’m a firm believer that any NBA player, you have to be a certain caliber player to even make it to the league, who is given a green light to shoot can average 20+ a game especially if winning is taken out of the equation.
In addition isn’t it strange that last year he won NCAA player of the year and Texas went out in the second round to USC, then this year without the “Player of the Year” Texas was able to reach the Elite Eight. Also if the Sonics had not received the 2nd pick in the draft and were able to draft a highly marketable young star of Durant’s status, do you think they would have still moved to Oklahoma City? Al Thornton (the 14th pick in last year’s draft and the last lottery pick) isn’t nearly as marketable as Kevin Durant.
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