DeacMan
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If he wins POY, as he definitely should, then his jersey should be retired. All the other Wake players (Hemric, Chappell, Davis, Griffin, Rogers, Duncan, Howard) who have won it have had their jerseys retired.
The other players with retired jerseys (Brown, Bogues, Childress, Paul) have had some kind of intangible, unquantifiable factors that led to their jerseys being retired. Brown and Childress brought us back from obscurity into prominence, Bogues was the only thing that made anyone pay any attention to Wake basketball in the mid 80's, and CP3 was CP3.
You could make an argument that ManMan deserves it without being named POY because he has similar intangible, unquantifiable qualities.
Like if he doesn't win POY and the team doesn't make the tourney and doesn't go on to really solid NBA career (a la Bogues) it is harder to make that argument IMO. I think he's going to win POY though. And should assure it is hung. Now that we're assured 5th I hope Billy buckets or whatever the fuck his name is comes up way short of getting the scoring title. And 11 assists last night I presume looks down the APG stat. No way if he leads the league in scoring and assists on a team with the single largest year to year win improvement in league history he is not POY.