2024 NBA Awards

Euclis20

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If it hasn't already been posted elsewhere, here's the award tracker:

View: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMzwRcilLDej0BWl7eYE_OYC9Tx9olI_Ptn-nHjKfpQ/edit


Real early, but a couple of things so far:

-Jokic has finished first on 15 of 18 MVP ballots
-Jokic/Doncic/SGA have been on all 7 1st team all-NBA ballots, Tatum/Giannis were on 6 of them.
-Gobert finished first in 10 of 13 DPOY ballots
-Wemby is sweeping the ROY voting
-MIP (Maxey/White) and 6th man (Reid/Monk) could be close
-Daigneault has finished first on 8 of 9 ballots
 

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Alex Caruso gets the NBA's Hustle Award. Presumably because he's a white guy who wears a sweatband on his head. "he's just like us, the voters, if we happened to try as hard as he does!"

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40070089/bulls-alex-caruso-honored-nba-hustle-award

(the guy is a great defender and I hope he makes all-defense again to get recognized for it)

> Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes was second in the voting, followed by Golden State Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort and Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams.

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Alex Caruso gets the NBA's Hustle Award. Presumably because he's a white guy who wears a sweatband on his head. "he's just like us, the voters, if we happened to try as hard as he does!"
Geez dude. Maybe it's also cause you know every time you watch a Bulls game the guy is diving on the floor and throwing his body around?
 

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Alex Caruso gets the NBA's Hustle Award. Presumably because he's a white guy who wears a sweatband on his head. "he's just like us, the voters, if we happened to try as hard as he does!"

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40070089/bulls-alex-caruso-honored-nba-hustle-award

(the guy is a great defender and I hope he makes all-defense again to get recognized for it)

> Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes was second in the voting, followed by Golden State Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort and Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams.

!!
There are no voters for this award. And, Marcus Smart is a 3 time winner.
https://Twitter.com/HowardBeck/status/1786072509395226728
 

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With Rudy Gobert being announced as the DPOY (his 4th award, tied with Mutombo and Ben Wallace as the only 4-time winners), we now have most of the individual awards known:

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From the ballot tracker above, Jokic appears to be running away with the MVP award (which would be his 3rd).

Victor Wembanyama finished second in the DPOY voting. :oops:

And seems like Tatum and Brunson are head-to-head for the 5th spot on the All-NBA First Team.
 

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Luka getting more MVP points than Tatum, Ant, and Giannis COMBINED, is crazytown. Unless they're only counting offense.
 

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Luka getting more MVP points than Tatum, Ant, and Giannis COMBINED, is crazytown. Unless they're only counting offense.
Giannis should have gotten more love, but I can definitely see why Luka got more votes than those other guys. Like it or not, you take Luka off Dallas and they are a terrible, bottom 10 team in the league. Take Ant or Tatum off theirs and those teams still make the playoffs
 

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Giannis should have gotten more love, but I can definitely see why Luka got more votes than those other guys. Like it or not, you take Luka off Dallas and they are a terrible, bottom 10 team in the league. Take Ant or Tatum off theirs and those teams still make the playoffs
You think a Wolves team, without Ant, and led by Gobert and Towns would make the playoffs in the West??
 

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It's funny that Luka gets credit for dragging his teams to the playoffs when he has only done it in 4 of 6 seasons. He finished 8th in MVP voting in a year when they didn't even qualify for the play in.
 

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It's funny that Luka gets credit for dragging his teams to the playoffs when he has only done it in 4 of 6 seasons. He finished 8th in MVP voting in a year when they didn't even qualify for the play in.
Nba media has been dying to give him the mvp for years now. He's a stone cold lock if the mavs ever got a top 3 seed.
 

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It's funny that Luka gets credit for dragging his teams to the playoffs when he has only done it in 4 of 6 seasons. He finished 8th in MVP voting in a year when they didn't even qualify for the play in.
He missed the playoffs his rookie year and then last year when they intentionally tanked. He has had some pretty trash teams
 

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He missed the playoffs his rookie year and then last year when they intentionally tanked. He has had some pretty trash teams
Calling what they did last year an intentional tank is beyond charitable. They were 6th with 3 weeks left in the season and were in 10th with a couple of days left. They threw in the towel with 1-2 games left, no matter how you describe it they (and Luka) were an embarrassing failure down the stretch.
 

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Luka is poor man's Harden, there is a segment of the voters who LOVE guys who just use all the possessions on offense, because they think of value as accumulated offensive statistics, so 40/4/7 in a loss is way better than 18/8/5 and great D in a win.

I really want one of the sites to let you filter their data by wins. So what was your accumulated value only in games you team won, because... a loss is of no value.
 

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James Harden is an incredible basketball player. Like top 40 of all time. Not sure being almost as good as prime Harden is an insult
It's not meant to be, it's pointing out that Luka is a guy whose game is based on enormous usage offensive play and that is a style that voters love, even if unlike Harden he can't translate it into consistent team success.

Luka's a really good player.... he's not James Harden in his prime, and he shouldn't be a year in year out top 3-4 MVP candidate.
 

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he's not James Harden in his prime,
He's pretty close though, isn't he?

Luka just put up 34/9/10 on .618 TS% with less than stellar defense which rivals Harden's best years, IMO.

Luka has only finished top 4 in MVP 2 out of his 5 years. This year 3rd place and 4th in 2020. I'm not sure who should have finished above him this year besides Jokic and SGA