Your arguments are stupid, they don't make sense, and you fail to realize that the reason that Quentin Richardson is the best three point shooter in the league is because he is set up with so many great passes by Steve Nash, and Amare is such a great finisher because of the passes he receives from Nash.  I find it funny that you include: "His numbers are helped by having the league's 3-point champion (Quentin Richardson), an All-Star (Shawn Marion) who can score inside, and THE best finisher (Amare Stoudemire) in the league."  Doesn't this improve Steve Nash's arguments for MVP? Since Quentin Richardson hasn't been the 3 point champ, Amare wasn't considered the best finisher in the league and Marion wasn't considered to be a sure All-Star before Nash was on the same team as these guys?  Oh yeah, when Steve Nash was out the Suns lost four straight and Amare averaged 16 points and 7 boards (Stats from TNT sports).   Shaq isn't getting robbed because of his race, the main reason is that people don't like his overly poweful, un-finesse style of play, they would rather see a lightning quick point guard filling up stat sheets with highlight passes.  It's not who is balck and who is white, it is who is entertaining and most valuble to his team.  And since you are comparing Shaq and Nash, let me show you that Nash averages 16 points and 11 assists, mediocre to you, but he contributes at least 38 points a game (average points plus 2 points for every assist) and this is not counting threes he assists, which is probably a lot since he has the 3 point champ on his team, Shaq only contributes at least 26 points per game on averages of 22 points and 2 assists.  I also hate how the only poeple making big deals about race are self righteous white people.  When I was watching TNT, I watched Rex Chapman argue with John Thompson on how race was involved in the voting, but John Thompson (A black man that has had controversy over his ideas on race) said it was a disservice to Steve Nash to say that race was involved in the voting.  Race is such a dumbass thing to complain about in the NBA, and before you make arguments about how race is the reason for Nash's MVP trophy, maybe look at the more important thing, STATS, than maybe you would realize how dumb your article is.