the other day, the comedy that ensues when these awards come out. Look at the bottome of the list, someone actually voted for the following:

Hakeem Warrick, 2nd best off the bench in the NBA?
Jason Kapono, 2nd best off the bench in the NBA?

Those are just the two most amazing to me. I guess opinions are like , everyones got one!

though I’d like to see them change the criteria. Let’s face it – Manu and Terry are both bench players in name only. they play starter’s minutes and are clearly have a much bigger role on their team than the actual “starters”.

Rather than starting or non – starting, it could be based on minutes per game. I can think of two different ways to do this:

1) a MPG cap, somewhere in the 24 to 28 minutes per game. If you are getting more than that, you are likely playing more than one or more guys who actually “start”
2) rather than a hard cap, simply say that in order to be eligible, you have to average less MPG than 5 other people on your team.