It’s that time of year again... Or, for the first time ever, on SBNation.com. AWARDS SEASON! Thanks to some awesome participation from SB Nation’s writers, what follows is a breakdown of the NBA’s biggest awards, as voted on by our basketball network. Click any of the links below to jump to a specific award, or just read ‘em all.
SB Nation’s Rookie Of The Year: Tyreke Evans
You come upon two bags of gold. One is about twice as large as the other. There’s a note on a chair in between the bags which, in Gilbert Arenas’s handwriting, reads “Pick 1.” Do you take the smaller bag of gold or the larger bag of gold? If you take the smaller bag, you are not as smart as you think, and you are probably a weakling hipster who couldn’t lift the larger bag anyways. If you take the larger bag, congratulations, you used common sense. Such is the choice between Tyreke Evans and Stephen Curry. Sure, Curry has been fantastic since, oh, January. But Evans has been every bit as good over that stretch. And also, Evans didn’t suck in November and December. Of late, Evans and Curry have produced similar numbers. Evans has been doing it all year. Curry has been doing it since the midway point. Ergo, Evans is the larger bag of gold. Don’t outsmart yourself.
— SB Nation’s Kings blog, Sactown Royalty
Read Article >SB Nation’s Executive Of The Year: Milwaukee’s John Hammond
SB Nation’s Sixth Man Of The Year: Jamal Crawford
SB Nation’s Most Improved Player: Kevin Durant
SB Nation’s NBA Coach of the Year: Scotty Brooks
Let’s get something straight from the start: Nate McMillan is not your Coach of the Year.
Read Article >SB Nation’s MVP: Do You Even Need To Ask?
Nothing about what we are seeing now should be considered a surprise. Just looking at his body of work, and in particular the last year or so in Detroit, we should all have known what to expect from Rasheed Wallace (too many 3’s, talented but doesn’t make best use of those talents). So most Celtics fans went into this with eyes wide open.
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