2023 nba awards

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