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Ranking the NBA's Most Improved Player Candidates

Talent is one thing. Work ethic is another. It's a creed that is as true in the NBA as anywhere else, and the Most Improved Player award is often the place to find a young player who has applied both key elements in a most admirable way while becoming a far more relevant member of the league. Unless you're Bobby...

Charley Rosen's Close Look: Westbrook or Felton for Most Improved?

Compared to the more celebrated postseason awards -- such as the MVP, the league's outstanding defender and the most prolific sixth man -- the Most Improved Player seems to be a marginal, if not dubious, honor. However, as past recipients have demonstrated, being named the MIP can bring a player the benefits of a...

The MIP Took My Baby Away

I might wake up with a poisoned arrow by my desk, but my heart wasn't really in our NBA FanHouse Awards. Sure, I voted, and attempted to do so in an informed manner. Yet somehow I ended up putting Kevin Garnett over Josh Smith for Defensive Player of the Year, which really goes against everything I believe in. I must have...

Karl: Kevin Martin Has Improved Too Much

Every year, debates rage on about exactly what the MVP means. Is it best player, best player on best team, player most crucial to his team, or some combination of the three? Hardcore fans have in the past voiced similar concerns about the Most Improved Player, which could refer to either a comeback, an expected leap, or...