Paul Pierce

Its good to see Paul Pierce get some national recognition with this piece by Ian Thomsen at SI.com. However, even though Thomsen places Pierce among the handful of best players in the NBA right now - he doesn't bring up the idea of Pierce for MVP. Think about it. Pierce probably means more to his team than any other player in the NBA (even Kobe). I'm not saying he should win the award - I am saying he should get more votes than Allen Iverson and some of the other "name" players.

As an aside - Pierce led the NBA in scoring in Feebruary. That's only the second time a Celtic has done that. The first Boston player to lead the NBA in scoring for a month was John Havlicek. A good bar bet is to ask someone to guess how many Celtic players have won the NBA scoring title over the years. The answer is zero - but almost nobody would guess or knows this.