NLSC AWARDS RACE

[Kevin]

Who do you think will win the MVP? DPOY? ROY?

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[Kevin]

MVP:
Russell Westbrook.
Not Curry, Not Harden. Curry's been playing with his Splash brother through almost the whole season plus players who can step up like Klay or Andre. Their team's stacked with talent paired by 2 superstars.

Defensive Player of the Year:
Draymond Green. He leads the league with a defensive rating of 96.3. He can guard Centers and Forwards and even Guards.

Rookie of the Year
Andrew Wiggins. As much as I would love to see Mirotic win it, fans want Wiggins and he's actually having a great season so that's that.

Coach of the Year
Mike Buldenhozer. Steve Kerr might be the 2nd placer here because Kerr's focus/gameplan is running it on Curry whilst Mike's gameplan is focused on teamplay.

Most Improved Player
Jimmy Butler. I wanted to pick Whiteside but he turned out to be an ungrateful, Canadian-hitting, son of a bitch.

[Andrew]

MVP: James Harden

Like the NBA Championship itself, the field is pretty wide open this year. I have been leaning towards Stephen Curry, but I could see the Warriors' all around improvement costing him a few votes for an award that is intended to recognise a standout individual. Harden's had a great year, quite a few of his numbers are up from last season, and the Rockets have a very respectable record despite Dwight Howard missing a fair amount of games. There's definitely some MVP buzz surrounding Harden, which indicates the media are definitely thinking about it. Would he be the most deserving? Arguably not, but that doesn't make him completely undeserving, either. At the very least, I'll pick him to win.

6th Man of the Year: Josh Smith

Maybe a bit of an off-the-wall pick, but he has started less than half of the 78 games he's played, so he does qualify. He's got decent numbers across the board, and he's on a team that's been winning fairly regularly, so he's probably drawn enough attention to get consideration. To me, there isn't really a standout choice this season. As far as fields of sixth men, it probably isn't one of the strongest groups as far as their performance this season is concerned.

Defensive Player of the Year: Anthony Davis

Tough call. Bigs tend to get preference here, but as far as wing players are concerned, Kawhi Leonard is in with a shot. With his blocking and rebounding numbers, DeAndre Jordan has to be a candidate too. If it went to either of them, I think it would be a fair call and not exactly shocking. However, I'll pick Anthony Davis; he leads the league in blocks, has a healthy amount of steals on top of that, and he's averaging 10 rebounds as well.

Rookie of the Year: Andrew Wiggins

Nikola Mirotic's strong finish to the season is probably going to get him All-Rookie First Team honours, but taking the whole season into account, it's not quite enough to get ROY. Wiggins has been pretty good all year as far as the rookies are concerned, I think he'll win it and I don't object.

Coach of the Year: Steve Kerr

You could argue that Mike Buldenhozer deserves it more, but Steve Kerr's set a new record for a rookie coach in a very competitive Western Conference. I think he'll end up getting recognition for the Warriors' season, with Buldenhozer finishing a respectably close second.

Most Improved Player: Jimmy Butler

An increase of 0.1 mpg, yet his numbers are up (in some cases quite significantly) across the board, and he's all of a sudden looking like a potential franchise player. We armchair analysts seem to always wring our hands and gnash our teeth at players who win this award simply because they put up bigger numbers after getting a significant boost in playing time. Well, here's a player who's shown great improvement in essentially the same amount of time on the floor as last season. Surely, it has to be Butler who takes home this trophy.

You could argue that Mike Buldenhozer deserves it more, but Steve Kerr's set a new record for a rookie coach in a very competitive Western Conference. I think he'll end up getting recognition for the Warriors' season, with Buldenhozer finishing a respectably close second.

Executive of the Year: David Griffin

Getting LeBron James back to Cleveland is probably enough, but the Cavaliers have also made some strong moves this season that have taken them from "Well, it's going to take a while to be legit, even with LeBron" to "Well, here they are, a legit team again and arguably a title contender".

[Mandich]

MVP: Stephen Curry

it's 51% Curry 49% Harden in my opinion.

Congrats to Harden for doing with what he did with the team he has. He has slightly better numbers, leads the league in Win shares, but Stephen Curry had a hell of a year, and the Warriors are outstanding this season.Then Again, would they be a playoff team without him? Probably. Would Houston be without Harden? Probably not.

MIP:Jimmy Butler

If anyone considers Whiteside just look at what he did the whole year on a team that actually matters in it's conference.

Defensive Player of the Year:Anthony Davis

Whether or not he deserves it will be questioned. Deandre Jordan maybe? Nah. Anthony Davis, because reasons.

Rookie of the Year: Andre Wiggins

Don't start calling them overhyped until they played a couple of years. Sure, they didn't quite deliver this year, but some got injured.


Coach of the Year: Mike Buldenhozer

People forgot about the Hawks and their streak already. 1st in the conference. Steve Kerr is probably going to win it anyway.

[Mandich]

MVP:
Russell Westbrook.
Not Curry, Not Harden. Curry's been playing with his Splash brother through almost the whole season plus players who can step up like Klay or Andre. Their team's stacked with talent paired by 2 superstars.

Lol.

[NovU]

MVP:
Who's gonna win: Harden
My Pick: Curry
Harden is pushing, pushing at the right time and it will greatly have impact on voting. Curry has been somewhat underwhelming lately.

6TH Man of the Year:
Who's gonna win: Lou Williams
My Pick: Lou Williams
One for the Raptors!

Defensive Player of the Year:
Who's gonna win: Anthony Davis
My Pick: Chris Paul
There is substantial difference in how offense and defense work because defense is largely a team activity. You probably could make an argument that DeAndre is best defender on the Clippers team but DeAndre has more counterparts that can replace him on his end, say "Marc", "Hibbert", "Unibrow", etc. However CP3 is different. You'd be hard pressed to find defensive PG of his caliber. He has no other real top class defender on his team at wing or perimeter. It's all CP3, night and day he'll heavily guard the loaded position. Within his role, he outclassed by far the entire league, thus their team defensive rating is 2nd in the league only behind GSW that has Iggy, Draymond, Thompson, etc.

CP3 is incredible.

Rookie of the Year
Who's gonna win: Andrew Wiggins
My Pick: Mirotic
Wiggins since the ASG break, he's played up to the challenge. But Mirotic has positively contributed to the winning cause and had some un-rookie like great nights.

Coach of the Year
Who's gonna win: Mike Budenholzer
My Pick: Steve Kerr
I like Kerr. He's got stars but he's the one that made them work in harmony and might end the season with one of the best record in recent history in stacked Western Confy.

[Lamrock]

MVP: Stephen Curry

You could make a really good case for James Harden here, but obviously it's gonna be Steph. Harden likely deserves it, given all the injuries. LeBron missed too much time. Westbrook... puts up the numbers but his team might miss the playoffs, he's missed some time himself and he's not the most efficient.

6TH Man of the Year: Isaiah Thomas

You could make a good case for Lou, but Isaiah Thomas is a borderline all-star coming off the bench.

Defensive Player of the Year: Draymond Green

I'd say give it to Bogut, but he doesn't play enough minutes. Draymond is gonna win this one though, no doubt about it.

Rookie of the Year Andrew Wiggins & Nerlens Noel

It's been like 15 years since we've had co-rookies of the year, and why not now? Andrew Wiggins is the clear favorite to win the award based on tradition, but Nerlens Noel has become one of the top defensive bigs in the league over the course of the year. I expect both to become perennial all-stars.

Coach of the Year Mike Budenholzer

Steve Kerr has done a good job, but inherited a stacked roster from an incompetent coach. Bud meanwhile took an unheralded team that some thought would miss the playoffs and led them to the 1 seed.

Most Improved Player Jimmy Butler

Role player to all-star! He won this thing in November.

Executive of the Year David Griffin

I didn't like the Love/Wiggins trade and LeBron was the one who made the personnel decision to make the Cavs contenders. However, the trades to acquire Mozgov, J.R. Smith and Shumpert have paid off, and the Cavs are probably going to win it all this year.

All-NBA Teams:

First Team: Curry / Harden / LeBron / Aldridge / M Gasol
Second Team: Paul / Westbrook / P Gasol / Davis / Cousins
Third Team: Lowry / Teague / Randolph / Duncan / Horford

All-Defensive Teams

First Team: Wall / T Allen / D Green / A Davis / Gobert
Second Team: D Green / K Thompson / Leonard / Antetokounmpo / D Jordan

All-Rookie Teams

First Team: Wiggins, Noel, Mirotic, Payton, Clarkson
Second Team: Smart, Galloway, Bogdanovic, Nurkic, McGary

[Maverick]

If the rockets stayed at no. 2 (or maybe 3) in the west, then the beard would prob win it. I don't see him winning the mvp with his team at the 6th.