Hedo Turkoglu Wins Most Improved Player Award

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Gameday update
Published 4/28/2008 by mgrange at The Globe and Mail - From Deep
... guard battle. In the Magic's three wins Jameer Nelson's numbers tell the story as Nelson is averaging 20.3 points on 57.6 per cent shooting – including nine-of-15 from deep – in the three Magic wins. In the Magic's lone loss, Nelson scored six points and missed by his triples while shooting two-of-eight. *Raptors fans who watched Turkoglu take over the fourth quarter on Saturday can at least be satisfied that it was a best effort by the NBA's most improved player, an award Turkoglu officially won today. Some interested Raptors-related elements include the fact that Jose ...

Nicht auf der Rechnung: Turkish Hedonism
Published 4/28/2008 by Paul Niemeyer at NBA-Blog
... meine Prognose zu allen individuellen Awards, die mit Ablauf der Regular Season verliehen werden. Während ich mit den bisherigen Prognosen knapp daneben lag, unterlief mir beim MIP-Tipp ein schwerer Patzer, stand doch der verdiente Gewinner Hedo Turkoglu nicht auf meiner Top5-Liste. Hier meine Prognose von damals: 1. Chris Kaman (tatsächlich 13.) 2. Rudy Gay (2.) 3. Andrew Bynum (12.) 4. LaMarcus Aldridge (3.) 5. Daniel Gibson (nicht vertreten)

It’s Euro day in the NBA
Published 4/28/2008 by Christophe at Ball in Europe
It’s Euro day in the NBA Today, the NBA had announced its unofficial Euro Day. Honoring a European player for the Most Improved player award was somehow predictable, but the announcement of a Filipino-Dutch-Irish-American head coach for the Miami Heat was more like a wizard pulling a rabbit out of his hat. First of all, congratulations for Hedo Turkoglu from Turkey. The forward from the Orlando Magic won the Most Improved player award , an award that another European won two years ago in the person of Boris Diaw and an even more popular Euro-guy won in 1996: Gheorghe Muresan. ...

Turkish Star Hedo Turkoglu Awarded 2008 NBA’s Most-Improved Player
Published 4/28/2008 by stuart leung at Interbasket
... Sources: Hedo Turkoglu wins NBA’s Most Improved Player Award (NBA.com), ...

Monday (mini) burn
Published 4/28/2008 by Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com at Blazers Blog - OregonLive.com
... , coming in third place behind Hedo Turkoglu (winner) and Rudy Gay (runner up). That's news, but not really news. What's most interesting, if you look at the players receiving votes , is Shaquille O'Neal received more MIP votes than Brandon Roy. Seriously? Roy was also shorted in the ...

Dunleavy Nowhere Near Most Improved
Published 4/29/2008 by Cornrows at Indy Cornrows: Front Page Posts
... I figured Dun would finish third and could make a strong case for second. I guess it all depends on how the voters interpret the MIP criteria. According to the NBA , the criteria is as follows: ...