The Hoops Nerd, Pre-Season MIP Awards, Southwest Division

The Hoops Nerd gives MIP Awards to the most intriguing player in each team during the NBA pre-season. We have finally reached the Southwest Division, home of the NBA title finalists of last year, the San Antonio Spurs. There is a lot of positive and negative intrigue both in that division and we have contenders to the title also. The ghost of last finals, the one-shoed wonder Mike Miller also moved to Southwest Division when the Miami Heat ABANDONED HIM (assholes!). He signed with the Memphies Grizzlies, who badly needed a clutch old fart like him on their bench. So here are the most intiguing players in the Southwest Division.

The Hoops Nerd, Pre-Season MIP Awards - Pacific Division

The Hoops Nerd gives MIP Awards to the most intriguing player in each team during the NBA pre-season. Once upon a time, the Pacific division was all the NBA fans cared about. It had the Los Angeles Lakers in it and to some degree, the Lakers are the NBA. Or were. Whatever. If you ask the first persn you meet on the street to name you an NBA team, he's probably going to name you the Los Angeles Lakers. But their latest era of dominance is almost over. Kobe Bryant is getting old and it's chaos on the shores of the Pacific ocean. Anyway...

The Hoops Nerd, Pre-Season MIP Awards - Northwest Division

The Hoops Nerd gives MIP Awards to the most intriguing player in each team during the NBA pre-season. Northwest division will be at the image of this Kevin Love photo. Not all that relevant, but wicked entertaining. It's crammed full of team that are trying to make something happen. Some are trying to bottom out, some are trying to win the goddamn championship, but every team in that division is strategically lead, despite having financial or health-related issues. Here are the five most intriguing players in that division...

The Hoops Nerd, Pre-Season MIP Awards - Central Division

The Hoops Nerd gives MIP Awards to the most intriguing player in each team during the NBA pre-season. Today, we finish the Eastern Conference by handing out the awards in the Central Dvision. It should be one of the strongest, most competitive and definitely one of the most interesting division in the league. Chicago and Indiana should fight for alpha,  Cleveland and Detroit should fight for a spot in the playoffs and Milwakee...that's a story we might address sometime in the future. Without further ado...

The Hoops Nerd, Pre-Season MIP Awards - Southeast Division

The Hoops Nerd gives the pre-season MIP Awards to the most intriguing player in each team before the start of the season. Today, I go over the Southeast Division, home of the latest NBA Champions, the Miami Heat. Southeast will not be even remotely close this year, yet it has its load of intriguing players. Most teams in that division are looking for a leader, somebody to lead them out of the hole they dug themselves in with subpar management. So the pre-season MIP Awards in Southeast Division go to...

The Hoops Nerd, Pre-Season MIP Awards - Atlantic Division

Welcome back to The Hoops Nerd.

I hope you had a nice summer and all, but the NBA is about to start back and it's time to lock yourself up to your couch and watch basketball for a reckless and irresponsible amount of hours. It's preseason, so every team is full of questions and has very little answers to offer yet. So to celebrate this period of effervescent incertitude, The Hoops Nerd hands out its MIP Awards to the Most Intriguing Player in every franchise. Today, we do the Atlantic Division.