2015 NBA awards predictions/picks and discussion

he's a candidate but missed a lot of time and kinda played the first half of the season in a low gear xp

when do they announce this stuff? if it's mid-playoff i could see him putting together a few games that could sway people over

nah all this shit is voted on already

votes due tomorrow I think xp

wonder if brow made a late push. won't win but maybe 3rd or 4th?

Xp ah never mind

winners will probably leak by the weekend if memory serves? I can't really remember exactly when woj gets his hands on the envelopes.

ugh mods plz delete all gobert baiting posts, not bc my mind is changed but that was a dumb (read:drunk) way to argue

and my dislike for the french jazzman is not that strong in the light of day

MVP cp3
DPY bogut
ROY wigdawg
COY air bud
MIP gobert

6MAN it

MVP - chef curry
DPOY - bogut
ROTY - wiggins
COTY - brother brad stevens
MIP - jimmy buckets
6 man/god - isaiah

would've picked mirotic for ROTY if thibs gave him more minutes but wiggins was a starter in most games & really rose to the occasion even in (many, many) losses
my COTY pick is 100% homer, obvs it will go to kerr/bud there's too much momentum behind both those guys

brad is totally worthy

Corner Three Hoops @corner3hoops
P1: 57.7% TS, 32.3% USG, 38.7% AST%
P2: 58.5% TS, 32.6% USG, 35.4% AST%.

P1 is LeBron James this season. P2 is Isaiah Thomas in Boston.

your day is over bron

MVP

1 curry
2 harden
3 cp3
4 brow
5 lebron

DPOY

1 dray
2 bogut
3 kawhi

MIP

1 gobert
2 whiteside
3 klay

ROY

1 mirotic
2 wiggins
3 nerlins i guess

COY

1 Kerr
2 bud
3 stevens

EXEC

1 ferry (sorry it's true)
2 griffin
3 ainge

6man

1 isiah thomas
2 idk, tristan thompson or iguodala or someone else not exciting

ALL NBA

1st

cp3
steph
harden
bron
brow

2nd

russ
klay
LMA
kawhi
cousins

3rd

kyrie
wall
butler
horford
duncan

whoops sub out griffin for horford

sub in*

MVP

1 curry
2 harden
3 lebron
4 CP
5 Brow
6 Russ

DPOY

1 bogut
2 dray
3 kawhi

MIP

1 whiteside
2 klay
3 gobert
4 Jimmy

ROY

1 wiggins
2 mirotic
3 Elfrid

COY

1 Bud
2 Kerr
3 Pop

6man

1 crawford
2 isiah thomas

EXEC

Couldn't care less

my predix for actual awards, i don't even know if i have personal opinions anymore, i am engorged by The Narratives

mvp: curry
dpoy: green
mip: butler
roy: wiggins
coy: kerr
exec: griffin

I'm pretty conflicted about ROY because Noel, Wiggins and Mirotic were in very different situations and all three have warts. I honestly don't know who was the best per se.

Exec of the year is probably Ainge, unless you think it's an award that should be for years of work.

i'd lean toward most exciting rookie and most likely to develop into a star and those are both wiggins for me

It's pretty crazy how good mirotic was without shooting well, he might be the best player on the Bulls in 2 years.

we have our first winner - lou will is 6 man of the year just as drake predicted

shd change the name of the mvp award to "1st man"

Brian Robb ‏@CelticsHub 13m13 minutes ago
Brad Stevens finished 4th in coach of the year voting and receives two first-place votes. Mike Budenholzer edges out Steve Kerr for win.

Jaryd Hawks ‏@JarydWilson 35m35 minutes ago
The Hawks organization, upon finding out from NBA about the award, called Popovich to ask him if he wanted to break the news to Bud. He did.

aw that's super cool

nice

gotta say I did not quite expect kawhi DPOY given the time he missed but he deserves it

Diamond Leung ‏@diamond83 45s45 seconds ago
Celtics broadcaster Tommy Heinsohn left Steve Kerr and Draymond Green off his ballots along with Kawhi Leonard.

B-)

Marcus Thompson ‏@ThompsonScribe 40m40 minutes ago
The real difference: Green did not receive a vote on 42 ballots. Leonard was left off 26 ballots

its weird there was like almost no buzz for any dpoy candidate this year, kawhi kinda won by default

but hey congrats i guess or w/e

jk obvs he is a super elite defender tho winning while missing so much time and also playing at half speed some of the time is kinda a sus proposition for an award

idk really who shd get it tho bogut is great but he missed almost as many games as kawhi

no one was really out there terrorizing the league on a nightly basis

boguts and draymonds probably split votes? kinda crazy to have two top 3-5 dpoy candidates on the same starring five.

yeah dubs line up is murderous

then iggy coming off the bench. when they play curry/klay/iggs/dray/bogut its just too much. curry can just roam the lanes looking for steals

seems like barnes is good too

yeh hes solid but he's not iggy

ya the ig dawg is disruptive

Here’s the full voting with player, team (first-place votes, second-place votes, third-place votes, points):

1. Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio (37-41-25-333)

2. Draymond Green, Golden State (45-25-17-317)

3. DeAndre Jordan, L.A. Clippers (32-25-26-261)

4. Anthony Davis, New Orleans (11-15-7-107)

5. Rudy Gobert, Utah (2-4-11-33)

6. Andrew Bogut, Golden (0-6-13-31)

7. Tony Allen, Memphis (1-4-12-29)

8. Tim Duncan, San Antonio (1-1-4-12)

9. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Charlotte (0-2-3-9)

10. Jimmy Butler, Chicago (0-2-1-7)

10. Marc Gasol, Memphis (0-2-1-7)

12. Joakim Noah, Chicago (0-1-1-4)

13. LeBron James, Cleveland (0-0-3-3)

13. Trevor Ariza, Houston (0-1-0-3)

15. Patrick Beverley, Houston (0-0-1-1)

15. DeMarre Carroll, Atlanta (0-0-1-1)

15. Nerlens Noel, Philadelphia (0-0-1-1)

15. Chris Paul, L.A. Clippers (0-0-1-1)

15. Hassan Whiteside, Miami (0-0-1-1)

Ha there's so obviously a Houston dude whose ballot went dray or kawhi 1 and 2 then Ariza Beverley and probably Dwight 3-4-5

lol who voted for lebron

srsly

lmao

http://i.imgur.com/QA9VUHs.jpg

good perspective there, dray

only one all-nba player didn't make the playoffs this year (cousins), agree it's a lagging indicator at best

good all-NBA squads. DAJ kind of lucked out that there are no good 2-way centers tho

― k3vin k., Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DeAndre is a good 2 way center, as are the two guys above him.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well i meant other than those guys. in 5 years we'll probably look back and see him as a pretty uninspired choice. it's just dumb that there are probably 5 more forwards who deserve this recognition before DAJ or any other center

All-NBA teams were announced.
4 of the 5 players on the 1st team, and
4 of the 5 players on the 2nd team, and
4 of the 5 players on the 3rd team play in the Western Conference.

ha damn