Melissa Rohlin
FOX Sports NBA writer
The results for the NBA Awards will soon drip in, so it’s time for a highlight of my choices, as well as my playoff forecasts.
It is always an honor to be one of the media members who have been selected to vote for the prices, although my eyes are glazed about watching games and analyzing statistics, and I am certainly lost sleep with very heavy decks.
But unfortunately the mood has been filled. The play -offs start. And here is how I think everything should fall.
MVP: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
This year the best player in the best team the prize. Gilgous-Alexander led the youngest team in the NBA to 68-win season, on average to League-in-the-wear 32.7 points per match on an extremely efficient shooting of 51.9 percent. I have most 20, 30, 40 And 50-point matches of everyone in the competition. Not to mention, I had the lowest Bursaver experiences of someone with his user percentage or higher for the last 20 seasons.
But what really pushed him over the edge for this prize was his phenomenal two-the game. He was one of the best defenders in the best -rated defensive team in the competition. I not only led the NBA in win shares, but also in defensive victories shares that arrange top five in Steals.
While his competition for the price, Nikola Jokic, also placed a number of figures at the offensive end, the game of Gilgous-Alexander at both ends of the court gave him the benefit in a very narrow race with two horses.
Defensive player of the year: Drayond Green
When the season of Victor Webanyama came to an expected ends of the end of a deep Venin thrombosis in his right shoulder in February, this prize was exhausted for Reburs. Green You have distinguished yourself from his competitions. The best argument for Green to win Defensive Player of the Year? See how he plays. I have the guard of one -off five, I read the court better than anyone and his genius is in stopping plays before they even happen, a phenomenon that does not appear in box scores. See what was doing this season against Zion Williamson and Giannis Antetokounmpo for reference.
After the All-Star break, the Warriors were the best-rated defensive team in the competition. (They finished seventh in general.) And although the statistics only tell part of the story when he comes to Green, he seemed to be in advanced statistics and came into number 1 in the competition for defensive LeBron,
Coach of the Year: Kenny Atkinson
Under Atkinson the Cavaliers not only exceed their expectations, they shattered them. They went from the thourht of as a team that should make the play-offs, to becoming a team that not only achieved the best seed in the Eastern Conference, but also consider reaching the final of the Eastern Conference.
Atkinson rejiggored the attack of the Cavaliers again and emphasized the ball movement and 3-point shooting, while he also took sub of the load of All-Star Donovan Mitchell. The Cavaliers opened the season with a 15-0 record and have not lost any steam since then, ending with the best rated attack in the competition, a Hage jump of their 16th place last year.
Rookie of the Year: Stephon Castle
Castle was on average 14.7 points at 42.8 Perte shooting, 4.1 assists and 3.7 rebounds in 26.7 minutes for 81 games this season. He led all chosen rookies in scoring and was called MVP of the Rising Stars game during All Star Weekend, and finished second in the SLAM Dunk competition. Castle is one of the four Rookies that have several 30-point matches this season. The field for this prize was not strong this season, and Castle did just enough to separate.
Final: Boston Celtics Vs. Los Angeles Lakers
In the east the reigning champion Celtics continues, with the duo of Jays Tatum and Jaylen Brown in the end the best of the Cavaliers. Evoid The incredible season of the cavs, they do not have enough experience playing together in games with high efforts to pass a duo that played eight seasons together, reached the conference six times and the championship round twice.
In the west, the Lakers will reach the final, because for Celerin 40-Yare-Oud called LeBron James knows that this is one of his final possibilities to win his fifth championship, and he really believes that it has a chance to make it happen next to Luka Doncic. James knows how to go all the way, to win four championships and make 10 finals, including eight in a row from 2011-2018. In the meantime, Doncic took the Dallas Mavericks to the final last year, before they shocked the world by acting in his prime in his prime to one of their rivals in February. James and Doncic take their games to another level come the play -off time, and together, Acsis Austin Reaves, will make nightmares for defense.
MVP Finals: Luka Doncic
Publicly humiliating for generation -SUPERSTER by exchanging him from a franchise that he would play for his sencareer, call him out of shape … and see what happens.
Melissa Rohlin is an NBA writer for FOX Sports. She previously dealt with the competition for Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Turn the Bay Area News Group and the San Antonio Express-News. Follow Twitter @Melissarohlin.
Get more from the National Basketball Association Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more