I'll update it as it gets announced: Most Valuable Player: Russell Westbrook Defensive Player: Draymond Green Rookie: Malcolm Brogdon Sixth Man: Eric Gordon Most Improved: Giannis Antetokounmpo Head Coach: Mike D'Antoni (HOU) Executive: Bob Myers (GSW) All NBA 1st Team: Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Lebron James, Anthony Davis All NBA 2nd Team: Isaiah Thomas, Stephen Curry, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant, Rudy Gobert All NBA 3rd Team: John Wall, DeMar DeRozan, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, Deandre Jordan All Rookie 1st Team: Malcolm Brogdon, Buddy Hield, Dario Saric, Willy Hernangomez, Joel Embiid All Rookie 2nd Team: Yogi Ferrell, Jamal Murry, Jaylen Brown, Brandon Ingram, Marquese Chriss All Defensive 1st Team: Chris Paul, Patrick Beverley, Kawhi Leonard, Draymond Green, Rudy Golbert All Defensive 2nd Team: Andre Roberson, Tony Allen, Danny Green, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Davis ------------------------ NEW AWARDS: Teammate of the Year: Dirk Nowitzki Sportsmanship Award: Kemba Walker Lifetime Achievement: Bill Russell Sager Strong Award: Monty Williams ------------------------ FAN AWARDS: Assist: Stephen Curry and Draymond Green Block: Kawhi Leonard Dunk: Victor Oladipo Game Winner: Russell Westbrook Performance: Klay Thompson Playoff Moment: Kevin Durant Best Style: Russell Westbrook Post your predictions!
Most Valuable Player - Westbrook Defensive Player - Gobert Rookie - Brogdon Sixth Man - Iguodala Most Improved - Giannis or Jokic Head Coach - Pringles (yuck) Executive - Morey (yuck) All NBA 1st Team - Westbrook, Harden, Lebron, Kawhi, Davis All NBA 2nd Team - Curry, Thomas, Giannis, Durant, Gobert All NBA 3rd Team - Wall, Lillard, Hayward, Derozan, Draymond All Rookie 1st Team - Brogdon, Murray, Ingram, Saric, Embiid All Rookie 2nd Team - Yogi, Hield, Brown, Chriss, ? (Zubac!) All Defensive 1st Team - Beverley, Roberson, Kawhi, Draymond, Gobert All Defensive 2nd Team - CP3, Bradley, Allen, Giannis, DeAndre
Most Valuable Player - Westbrook Defensive Player - Draymond (By Far the Easiest Choice of Any Award) Rookie - Brogdon Sixth Man - Lou Will Most Improved - The Joker (Jokic) Head Coach - Mike D'Antoni Executive - Bob Myers Not doing the other ones
They're all getting announced on the same night. NBA is having an awards ceremony this year, unlike in the past.
It will be in June. I know...... I'm not sure why the league thinks this is a good idea having to wait that long.
http://www.nba.com/article/2016/11/01/nba-host-first-ever-awards-show-june-2017 The NBA announced today that the first-ever NBA Awards Show will take place in New York City on Monday, June 26, 2017. Televised exclusively by TNT, the show will feature current and former NBA players, coaches and celebrities. The star-studded event will recognize NBA players, teams, coaches and executives for their accomplishments and performances from the 2016-17 NBA season. The show will feature the announcements of the Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Kia NBA Rookie of the Year, Kia NBA Sixth Man Award, Kia NBA Most Improved Player and Coach of the Year. While in previous years these awards were announced separately throughout the postseason, this marks the first time that all recipients will be honored on the same night. Additional awards will be announced at a later date as well as the venue, the host and the list of presenters.
Well thats stupid. How much you want to bet playoff performance will factor into it even if they say otherwise. Thats why I was hoping it would be announced before the playoffs, won't allow the Rockets vs Thunder matchup to skew MVP votes.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19257396/fans-vote-six-nba-awards-june-awards-show Can we vote for All-NBA teams?
I think the MVP, DPOY, All-NBA teams and such were voted on back a few days after the regular season ended. The playoffs play no part in that voting, they're regular season awards, that's why it was silly when people were talking about the OKC/Houston series deciding the MVP, those votes were in before the series started. So unless I'm mistaken, PG's playoff performance can't boost him to an all-NBA team, the voters made that decision before the Cavs series.
Had all but two guys right from my predictions. Think KAT should have been in it instead of DJ though to be honest.
towns over jordan, paul over derozan. i guess the voters wanted to credit a raptors player because they had a decent season? who gave lebron, westbrook, and leonard second and third team votes? whilst giving harden a 1st team vote? ridiculous. can't believe rudy gobert almost got more votes than anthony davis. i'd probably have both towns and m. gasol over gobert and jordan. i think gobert's gotten super overrated.
MVP down to Westbrook, Leonard or Soften http://www.latimes.com/sports/nba/la-sp-nba-mvp-awards-20170519-story.html
I think it's wrong that the writers get to decide if PG13 or Heyward are eligible for the Super Max. Several writers have hometown bias and/or ulterior motives. While I don't think PG13 or Heyward deserved to be All NBA this year, I'd hate for $50 million to be riding on the decision making skills of writers. The players should vote the All NBA team.
what do you have against gobert? or how do you view him as overrated? I'm genuinely curious. I personally think that this year he lived up to all the praise given to him (or maybe its just cuz he helped me win my fantasy bball title)
he's not a very useful offensive player, and he can be taken out of games by more physical players. i'd rather have towns, jordan, m. gasol, jokic, and maybe cousins or even whiteside. my beef isn't with gobert as good center--it's with gobert almost getting more votes than anthony freaking davis. that's going way overboard on the advanced stats and/or utah's success with and without gobert.