Nathan

SUNS: Paul on the Playoffs: "Whether Steve is the most valuable player in the entire NBA is really not for me to say. I will say, though, that our team would not be what it is-maybe the most fun basketball team to watch in ten years without his influence. Amare Stoudemire is ridiculously good, Shawn Marion makes plays on any given night that make me wonder why the rest of us even try, and Joe Johnson is as good a shooter as I have ever seen, but without a director, the rest of the group, I think, would be lost. Steve guides the game in ways that are unseen to the casual observer. He plays the game the way it should be-in constant motion and with a grasp for the several dimensions on which a basketball game unfolds that is preternatural. For that, I think he is certainly our MVP. "