2023 nba awards

mvp embiid (for political reasons)
dpoy jjj
rookie paolo
coach joe "mindset" mazzulla
executive pelinka
sixth man, most improved idc these ones are dumb

MVP: jokic
(runner up and most valuable coward/most valuable campaigner (MVC) (dropped a shams interview complaining about not winning MVP and then ducks the nationally televisted matchup with the 2 time defending MVP on the same day): embiid

6th man of the year: immanuel quickley
rookie of the year: paolo banchero
most improved player (not a real award): lauri markkanen
coach of the year: mike brown I guess
DPOY: giannis

all-nba:
- 1st team: jokic, giannis, tatum, luka, SGA
- 2nd team: embiid, kawhi, jimmy, donovan mitchell, deaaron fox
- 3rd team: AD, markkanen, jaylen brown, jalen brunson, lillard

wow no steph all nba huh

mvp embiid cos i picked him preseason also hes deserved it very close w the other two tho
6 man no idea dont care
mip see above
dpoy lol the bucks have three candidates, idk i think maybe jjj? if hes not fouling hes insanely good on that end
coy def mike brown
ROY paolo but i def like j williams game better and his last third of the season was really impressive

steph just didn’t have a good enough season to overcome missing 25 games and his team being doodoo for me

jdub seems like a perfect big wing all around player but paolo has elite scorer upside, tho prob more risk there that he never becomes efficient

i like them both a lot paolo is a beast man if he maxes out he will be very tough to deal with, jdub doing basically everything well at the end of his rookie season is very impressive tho worth noting that he played 3 years of college ball and is a year and a half older than paolo

oh wow did not know

yeah hes a bit of a late bloomer didnt really break out til his jr year, tho he put up better numbers in the last ~3rd of this season than he ever did in college, prob one of those guys whos just more cut out for the nba game

steph just didn’t have a good enough season to overcome missing 25 games and his team being doodoo for me

― k3vin k., Wednesday, April 5, 2023 7:03 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean statistically its one of his better seasons. my main issue is having dame in over him, they're going to play roughly the same amount of games in the end

dame was just better this year idk

basic and advanced box score stuff favors dame, he was also a net positive when on the floor despite his team being hot garbage. the guards were really tough to pick

https://theathletic.com/4388394/2023/04/07/nba-awards-mvp-roty-most-improved/?source=user_shared_article

hollinger’s awards column

it's surprising to me that jarren's fouling isn't a disqualifier for more people... by definition, to me, you can't be the best defensive player in the NBA if you also foul the most. those two things just don't compute

players like embiid and bam are averaging 35 mpg to jarren's 28 mpg... if you told either of those guys "hey go out there and play 28 mins and foul out it's all good" what kinda defense would you see from them. also their teams would die

hollinger made the argument in his column that a large percentage of his fouls are offensive and loose-ball fouls…to me I’m not sure it really matters because the primary detriment of fouling a lot is getting other teams into the bonus and lack of availability. but it’s hard to argue with his rim protection numbers at multiple positions

embiid is like an 90th percentile defensive player, but I can’t really see the argument for him as a DPOY contender, there are just too many superior defensive players who lock in more consistently

danny leroux and nate duncan’s awards podcast yesterday was pretty good. they made an interesting case for draymond to be on the ballot

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/4/7/23673254/nikola-jokic-joel-embiid-nba-mvp

good article. honestly for me it just comes down to the fact that jokic’s advantage in offense is so much larger than either embiid or giannis’s advantage on defense you just have to give it to him (and jokic’s defensive shortcomings are a bit overblown even if they are glaring)

I'd prob vote Embiiid but the article makes a compelling case

good article. honestly for me it just comes down to the fact that jokic’s advantage in offense is so much larger than either embiid or giannis’s advantage on defense

― k3vin k., Friday, April 7, 2023 6:17 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

???

https://i.imgur.com/ChEsGlL.png

yes I also recommend batting average for baseball if you’re interested

uh im not

mvp: jokic (which of the other contenders was also battling ancient bosnian blood phantoms shredding their arms every game)
6th man of the year: --bench players are an illusion--
rookie of the year: paolo
most improved player: brunson (sticking it to cuban)
coach of the year: mike brown will win and i don't really care so
DPOY: lopez (just a bit of fun)

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perfect

lmaooooo nooooo

haha we need a runoff

maybe therell be a tie in the real vote

in the event of a tie the mvp goes to lebron

i don't think i voted because i don't really care about mvp tbh

#NBAMVP Vote Update.

Three more MVP votes.

Mike Singer: Jokic
Justin Termine: Embiid
Vince Goodwill: Embiid

28 first place MVP votes in the tracker:

19 Votes -- Embiid
5 Votes -- Giannis
4 Votes -- Jokic

MVP Tracker: https://t.co/4k5XrCiUCK

— Max Croes - NBA MVP Tracker Guy (@CroesFire) April 11, 2023

wow joel crushing

he won the award season narrative play-off pretty much through and through from what i could tell

yeah joker took his foot off the gas too

plus the whole arm scratch situation was just tough to deal with

I lost count of the # of times they had to stop play in the middle of a play for him to get medical attention for his bleeding arms because they didn’t call a foul

cant he just wear some sleeves idgi

has he tried lotion, it might help

i'm tellin you its bosnian blood ghosts

cant they do something about that hire a ghost hunter

if the refs would call fouls on him it might disincentivize players from doing it!

ESPN Sources: After leading one of the league’s most dramatic recent turnarounds, Sacramento Kings coach Mike Brown has been voted the National Basketball Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year: https://t.co/oyb4ogbfFj

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 13, 2023

earned it. seems like a good dude too.

yup that's the right answer

light the beam baby

Most Valuable Player

Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers
Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets

Defensive Player of the Year

Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
Brook Lopez, Milwaukee Bucks
Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers

Most Improved Player

Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
Lauri Markkanen, Utah Jazz

Rookie of the Year

Paolo Banchero, Orlando Magic
Walker Kessler, Utah Jazz
Jalen Williams, Oklahoma City Thunder

Sixth Man of the Year

Malcolm Brogdon, Boston Celtics
Bobby Portis, Milwaukee Bucks
Immanuel Quickley, New York Knicks

Clutch Player of the Year

Jimmy Butler, Miami Heat
DeMar DeRozan, Chicago Bulls
De’Aaron Fox, Sacramento Kings

Coach of the Year

Mike Brown, Sacramento Kings
Mark Daigneault, Oklahoma City Thunder
Joe Mazzulla, Boston Celtics

finalists fwiw

wonder if he's the only guy to win both rookie of the year and sixth man

guess he's the second...first guy was the equally perpetually underrated mike miller.

ben gordon won sixth man as a rookie, but finished second in ROY voting behind...emeka okafor

tough having so many qualified candidates from uconn

joel gets the big one

salute to him he is most valuable

cute

your 2022-23 @Kia NBA MVP: @JoelEmbiid 🏆#KiaMVP pic.twitter.com/DNqnd5g9EY

— Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) May 2, 2023

aw very heartwarming

trust the process

da votes

Jayson Tatum finished 4th in MVP voting as expected, receiving 89 of the 100 fourth place votes. That’s his highest finish of his career after coming in 6th last year. pic.twitter.com/cHYfn0qKJs

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) May 2, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvKOtVnWcAAaSAY?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

all except for one top 3 vote was spread across the top 3 guys

nice couple of semi-troll votes at the very bottom you gotta give it up for sportswriters

idk he got the first one but the rest are pretty rough, one of those guys isnt even alive

MVP rankings in a couple years pic.twitter.com/t7iIACs9f6

— Joel “Troel” Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) August 19, 2014

rip chris paul

heh

no comment on the MVP award from me!

Nice job, big fella.

Joel Embiid is the first Basketball Without Borders (BWB) alumni to win the Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Award. Embiid participated in BWB Africa 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was coached by NBA players and personnel, including Dikembe Mutombo and Alonzo Mourning. pic.twitter.com/A6nhGhddFG

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) May 3, 2023

One thing that gets lost with Embiid because of how good he’s been and his outsized personality is how he started playing so late compared to a lot of players. It is pretty admirable that he has really continued to work on his game even this offseason he worked on his passing and cutting down turnovers.

yeah its crazy he actually has a great feel for the game which tends to be harder the later you pick it up

yeah he’s the exception to most of those late blooming big dudes it’s all the more impressive

not to mention he missed his first two seasons

the most important award has been bestowed, lock the thread

The winner of the 2022-23 NBA Hustle Award is... Marcus Smart!#NBAAwards pic.twitter.com/87AtlfItBe

— NBA (@NBA) May 4, 2023

he won last year too, the only two time winner, hustle goat

given annually to the player who best exemplifies the themes of the 2022 Adam Sandler film Hustle

it's nice that they invented an award to give to marcus so we can give the defensive player of the year award to the actual defensive players of the year

marcus won the dopy fair and square (years of narative building by celtics twitter)

honestly tho they should just have big man and perimeter dpoy awards so everyone gets a shot

that's a cool idea. especially w/ them making all defense positionless there will prob be 1 guard per year who makes first team

Cool idea. They should do that.

The All-Rookie team seems solid and uncontroversial:
Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero, Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler, Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin, Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray, and Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jalen Williams.

The All-Rookie second team features Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren, Houston Rockets forward Tari Eason, Detroit Pistons guard Jaden Ivey, Houston Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr., and San Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan.

jabari smith was awful prob shouldnt have a second team

zeitgeist was he got on track in the second half of the season but i sure did not watch enough rockets to have an opinion

i mean yeah in the sense that he went from the worst shooter in the league to just regular bad

every team needs at least one Jalen

The Thunder's first all-rookie team selection since Russell Westbrook.

might take the second team here

2022-23 NBA All-Defensive teams:

First team: Jaren Jackson Jr., Brook Lopez, Alex Caruso, Evan Mobley, Jrue Holiday

Second team: Bam Adebayo, OG Anunoby, Dillon Brooks, Draymond Green, Derrick White

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 9, 2023

yeah way more switch-ability on team 2

https://t.co/SnBSOEhx53 pic.twitter.com/3KnaYH7wph

— Tyrese Haliburton (@TyHaliburton22) May 9, 2023

lol

2022-23 All-NBA teams:

1st: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Luka Doncic, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Giannis Antetokounmpo

2nd: Stephen Curry, Donovan Mitchell, Jimmy Butler, Nikola Jokic, Jaylen Brown

3rd: Damian Lillard, De'Aaron Fox, LeBron James, Julius Randle, Domantas Sabonis

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 10, 2023

is this man some sort of... joker

Mark Jackson had an MVP vote this season, here’s how he voted:

1. Joel Embiid
2. Giannis Antetokounmpo
3. Jayson Tatum
4. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
5. Donovan Mitchell pic.twitter.com/g2yY31Xvy7

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) May 11, 2023

Made an honest mistake with my MVP votes. My apologies to the Denver Nuggets and Nikola Jokic. He’s not only a legitimate MVP candidate who deserved my vote, but he is truly one of the all time greats!
Again my apologies

— Mark Jackson (@MarkJackson13) May 11, 2023

lol ok fine

this is an excellent reason to fire mark jackson

it happens, so easy to forget the winner of the last two MVPs is eligible

wtf does "an honest mistake" even mean in this context

that response is hilarious

so if it was his all-nba ballot, was it just ranked in positional order? lol

looks like it