So check this out... Deron Williams came off of a great year, which he ended 3rd in the list for Most Improved Player of the Year, and gained recognition for his amazing improvement. Also led his team to the Western Conference finals, which against the Spurs, and Bruce Bowen as his personal pedophile, he was putting sick numbers. He begins the season putting pretty good numbers but his team falls down to .500, although the Utah Jazz had the most road games of any team until that point.
Then Brandon Roy, in his second year, whose team is just a couple positions up the standings and who was putting slightly higher numbers in rebounds and points per game. He had been part of the feel good story of the NBA and had his team go hot for a 13-0 winning streak.
However he decides to create the iRoy campaign which was a packet of pamphlets and an ipod with sick highlights of Brandon Roy, and great marketing for his case to be part of the All-Star game. This was sent to all coaches. True showmanship.
Anyways, he ends up selected to the All-Star, you can see him in various Nike Commercials, and Deron despite having broken off with CP3 for being flat out the best two Points GUards (And I don't mean just young), he is still snubbed for the second consecutive year which is still a great travesty.
To be quite honest it was ingenious, but was it moral to spread propaganda knowing that there is no fair equality in it? Was it ethical for the league to allow this type of activity? Specially without any regulation?
Note: Let's set the record straight. Those of you who are effing ignorant and think that I am implying that Roy is an effing commie, get your facts straight. Propaganda is a concerted set of message aimed at influecing the opnion or behaviour of large numbers of people.
http://sportsbusinessradio.com/node/1530/
With that in mind, comes a couple more propaganda intents. Chris Paul's follows, and although I do think he does indeed deserve the MVP rather than Kobe for a thousand reasons, I still see it as unethical, as it can take away from many of the achievements that Kobe has accomplished this year, for the modification of his game while still being a catalyzer of a championship calliber team.
Is it moral for an NBA team to do this? Is it ethical for NBA.com to proceed with the hosting of this website without equal representation?
Extract from the myspace.com group.
http://nba.com/hornets/CP3MVP.html
Now comes the lastest, which is Horford and his intent to win Rookie of the Year. Although is it somewhat of a two horse race, we all know what an spectacular year Kevin Durant has had in the lame-duck year for the Sonics. The great levy that holds the flood is the near double-double averaged by Horford, and the fact that the Hawks will be back in the playoffs while the Sonics tanking once more. However again we face the fact that the propaganda is unfiltered and quite unfair specially when challenge big markets vs Small markets.
http://Al4roy.com
My personal opinion is that I see it as kinda dirty, and just like lobbying to NCAA players (Google Carmelo Anthony tickets OJ Mayo) in which it can affect the fairness of the judgement for the achievement and glory of the certain achievements or awards. I do not think they are already, but I think it doesn't help but rather clutter the already flawed process in which these and many other selections are made. To me, lobbying for awards should be prohibited. Can we have some dignity please?
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