Manu Ginobili: NIKEBasketball.com Baller Of The Year :)

[kibaxx7]

After a season of Nikebasketball.com Ballers of the Week, we asked you the fans to vote for who should be the Baller of the Year. Well, the votes are in, and the fans have spoken, choosing San Antonio's Manu Ginobili as the Nikebasketball.com Baller of the Year.

Manu Ginobili averaged 16.0 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.61 steals per game during the regular season, helping the Spurs to a 59-23 record. In the first three rounds of the postseason, Ginobili has raised his game yet another notch, contributing 21.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game in San Antonio's race for the title.

Who should be the Nike Baller of the Year?

Manu Ginobili: 67%
Pau Gasol: 27%

[Drex]

Wow, he beat Pau Gasol Good for him, he deserved it

[Jona]

Great news, I'm very glad for him!!

As Drex put it, he deserved it.

[J@3]

Is this contest restricted to white foreigners or something. I'm putting money on Bogut to win it next year

[cklitsie]

wtf, why did they only let people pick from those two, let's make a list of nike ballers who pwn these dudes, i'll start:
Kobe Bryant
Amare Stoudemire
Vince Carter
Lebron James
Steve Nash
Shawn Marion
Dirk Nowtizki
Jermaine O'Neal
Andrei Kirilenko
Richard Jefferson
Brad Miller
Elton Brand
Rasheed Wallace

[-BHZMAFIA-]

Actually, Pau was the winner from last season beating out Kobe. So I guess they made Pau go up against Ginobili since he was the winner last year and maintained some decent stats. Don't hate the Spaniard from the Grizzlies or the black Argentinian

[cyanide]

Well, why is Pau going up against Ginobili, but not any one of the other players that ceekay mentioned?

[Andrew]

Ginobili's in the Finals, the rest (with the exception of Rasheed) are not. I suppose it's a matter of "out of sight, out of mind".

[Boyk]

Actually, Pau was the winner from last season beating out Kobe. So I guess they made Pau go up against Ginobili since he was the winner last year and maintained some decent stats. Don't hate the Spaniard from the Grizzlies or the black Argentinian

how the hell pau beat out kobe last year is something i still have yet to understand

[fgrep15]

lol how did Pau beat Kobe last year?

Who votes for these things?

[Boyk]

Manu Ginobili: 67%
Pau Gasol: 27%

hmmmmmmmmmmmm well not 100% people vote anyway lol

im pretty sure you can only choose between 2 guys in the vote also, so WTF happened there???
hahahaaah
it must be rigged

[Ruff Ryder]

lol how did Pau beat Kobe last year?

Who votes for these things?

Probably the same way Yao beat Shaq in the all-star game.

[-BHZMAFIA-]

lol how did Pau beat Kobe last year?

Who votes for these things?

Probably the same way Yao beat Shaq in the all-star game.

Probably since Kobe was in all that trouble and they would've let someone that wasn't in trouble win it

[kibaxx7]

Manu Ginobili: 67%
Pau Gasol: 27%

Lol it's not my fault... check the poll here

[Maaarf]

Ginobili's in the Finals, the rest (with the exception of Rasheed) are not. I suppose it's a matter of "out of sight, out of mind".

Pau isn't in The Finals either, meaning they should have put somebody from the Pistons for the other baller. Or from the Spurs again.

[cyanide]

We want to know what you think. Each week, we'll spotlight two Nikebasketball.com ballers who will be matching up in a single game later that week. It's up to you, the fans, to vote on who you think should be the Nikebasketball.com Baller of the Week, based on who you think will have the stats, team performance and intangible baller qualities like artistry, finesse, and power in the selected game.

I guess Kobe's inability to play a team game is what had Gasol beat him out last year. Either that, or the rape trial had to do something with his diminishing popularity.

[Jackal]

That sounds like a good explanation, I doubt Nike wanted Kobe as their baller of the year due to the rape charges, I heard he lost a few endorsements because of it so that seems like a pretty good guess.

[Andrew]

Ginobili's in the Finals, the rest (with the exception of Rasheed) are not. I suppose it's a matter of "out of sight, out of mind".

Pau isn't in The Finals either, meaning they should have put somebody from the Pistons for the other baller. Or from the Spurs again.

Pau was the defending "champion" though; perhaps that's the criteria for choosing him, while Ginobili's this year's representative because he's in the Finals.

[J@3]

lol how did Pau beat Kobe last year?

Who votes for these things?

Probably the same way Yao beat Shaq in the all-star game.

Asians?

[Boyk]

We want to know what you think. Each week, we'll spotlight two Nikebasketball.com ballers who will be matching up in a single game later that week. It's up to you, the fans, to vote on who you think should be the Nikebasketball.com Baller of the Week, based on who you think will have the stats, team performance and intangible baller qualities like artistry, finesse, and power in the selected game.

I guess Kobe's inability to play a team game is what had Gasol beat him out last year. Either that, or the rape trial had to do something with his diminishing popularity.

it still dont make sense though.

coz they go through a playoff bracket type thing, with head-to-head matchups, so kobe got votes over all the other nike guys before the finals also lol.

its gotta be rigged, has to be!

[cyanide]

Perhaps you're right, because I'm sure there's more Kobe fans than Gasol fans... but, but, there could be more Kobe haters than Kobe fans