The 2019/20 NBA season’s year-end awards will be voted on based on player performance up to the league’s coronavirus-necessitated hiatus on March 11, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium (Twitter link).
Those awards include Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, Executive of the Year, and the All-NBA, All-Defensive, and All-Rookie Teams.
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Charania went on to note (via Twitter) that season statistics will incorporate player performance during the NBA’s eight “seeding” games that kick off July 30 for the NBA’s Disney World season restart, so league leaders in certain stat categories could still change.
The league’s decision on awards could have several ramifications for potential recipients of the various accolades. Players like Bradley Beal, who will not participate in the restart, will have a better shot at making one of the three All-NBA teams for the season. Rookie of the Year favorite Ja Morant and MVP frontrunner Giannis Antetokounmpo will no longer need to further cement their arguments for consideration.
According to Charania (Twitter link), the NBA will soon announce the voting process and its plan to announce this year’s award winners. Typically, media members would vote in the spring and the league would reveal the winners during a televised award show in June. However, it seems unlikely that an in-person ceremony will take place this year.
Either way it’s easy to assume that Giannis will win the MVP again.
Well deserved – best regular season player the last two years
Hopefully they can get the voting completed before the season restarts. Even if you’re told as a voter that you should only consider pre-hiatus games, it’ll be hard to not be prejudiced by what you see in the seeding games.
They say the voting will be completed before the 7/30 restart.
ah, good to know! thank you.
Giannis MVP
AD DPOTY
Schroder SMOTY
Morant ROTY
Ingram MIP
Then all NBA teams
1st
LBJ Doncic Giannis AD Jokic
2nd
Lillard Harden Kawhi Siakim Embiid
3rd
Russ Beal Butler Tatum Adebayo
Who?
I can’t remember so long ago. Like everything else in the NBA, should have been done already.
Giannis is likely to win DPOY