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Coffee Warlord: Well, the way I see it, you have 3 candidates who have a case for ROY: Damian Thomas, who turned the Spurs from one of the absolute worst teams in the league in 59 starts (he broke his ankle in early March) to a still bad, but significantly improved team. Then you have Nochimas Eliashov, the 20 year old Latvian who will be a franchise player by the time he's fully developed. I mean, he started from Day One and averaging 16.8 points as PG/SG, mofo shot 51.6%. Then again, Tackett shot 50.2%, so who knows? It -should- by all rights go to Tackett, but you can make a case for all 3 guys.

rjolley: Funny, somebody else on the WS board alluded to the idea of my trading for Thomas. I'd love to, but the AI is extremely possessive of 5* players and 19 year olds and Thomas just so happens to be both.