08-09 NBA Awards Thread

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Mike Brown gets Coach of the Year:

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Mike Brown was honored as the NBA's coach of the year Monday after leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to their greatest regular season.

He guided the club to a franchise-record 66 wins, a second Central Division title and the No. 1 overall seed in the postseason. Cleveland leads the Detroit Pistons 1-0 in the first round of the playoffs.


Preaching trust to his players since training camp, Brown has created a tightly knit team led by superstar LeBron James. The 38-year-old coach also has given more authority to his assistants, a sign of his maturity as a coach and confidence as a leader.


Brown joined the Cavs in 2005 after two seasons as an assistant with Indiana. Bill Fitch in 1976 is the only other Cleveland coach to win the coaching award.


Brown received 55 first-place votes and earned 355 total points from a panel of 122 sports writers and broadcasters. Houston's Rick Adelman finished second with 151 points and Orlando's Stan Van Gundy was third with 150.


New Orleans coach Byron Scott won the award last year.
Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert called Brown a "natural leader" and credited him with much of his team's success.


"Mike Brown is one of these rare people that has nearly every tool in his tool box," Gilbert said in a statement. "He is smart, hard working, and selfless. He is curious and hungry to learn. He is philosophically driven and derives his decision making from his strong philosophy.


"Mike Brown is a critical element as to why our franchise is growing into the kind of success we all envisioned and hoped to achieve. There is no man more deserving and it proves to the world that, yes, nice guys can indeed, finish first."


http://www.nba.com/2009/news/04/20/brown.coach.of.year.ap.ap/index.html

 

[peternorth]

Dee-wight Howard of the Magic, Orlando, has acquired the defensive player of the year (aka DPOTY).

link

 

[Vegas.]

Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls has been announced as the Rookie of the Year, collecting 111 out of a possible 120 first place votes.

Link

 

[peternorth]

Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls has been announced as the Rookie of the Year, collecting 111 out of a possible 120 first place votes.

Link

“When I first came into the season, my biggest thing was to get this award,” Rose said. “I was telling you all that I didn’t care, but I did. You really do want this award. There was a lot of talent out there that I had to go against.”

playing for himself

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Jason Terry gets sixth man.

 

[Vegas.]

Kevin Love won the 'Guy who likes to bitch a lot - especially for a Rookie' award.

"I was screwed in ROY voting"

 

[mdc]

Kevin Love won the 'Guy who likes to bitch a lot - especially for a Rookie' award.

"I was screwed in ROY voting"

I'd have a lot more problem with that if he wasn't 100% right.

 

[Vegas.]

I'd have a lot more problem with that if he wasn't 100% right.

Yep, but he also bitched about not being selected in the rookie/soph game (again, probably justified), and there was something else along the line. Point is, quit your bitchin' fat boy, just keep rebounding.

 

[plowking]

So is Bron getting his MVP tomorrow? It's usually done at the end of round 1 correct? Seeing as its going to be a sweep, that would be tomorrow.

 

[sblack]

So is Bron getting his MVP tomorrow? It's usually done at the end of round 1 correct? Seeing as its going to be a sweep, that would be tomorrow.

Did not receive the award as far as I can tell...maybe midweek or Game 1 of Semis

 

[Osmodiar]

They should hand out Most Improved first, or have they done that already?

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Nuggets VP named Executive of Year

By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 3 hours, 46 minutes ago

Denver Nuggets vice president of basketball operations Mark Warkentien has been named the NBA’s Executive of the Year, a league source said Saturday afternoon.

Warkentien engineered the early season trade that sent Allen Iverson to the Detroit Pistons for point guard Chauncey Billups, a move that helped turn the Nuggets into one of the top Western Conference contenders. Warkentien’s budget free-agent signings of guard Dahntay Jones and center Chris Andersen also helped strengthen Denver’s roster. At the same time, he was also able to move the Nuggets under the luxury tax.

Warkentien joined the Nuggets in the summer of 2005 as director of player personnel. He was promoted to vice president of basketball operations a year later.

The Executive of the Year award is voted on by the league’s general managers.

Who knew that the guy who traded Camby for nothing would win it . In all seriousness that was a very good trade.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Who knew that the guy who traded Camby for nothing would win it . In all seriousness that was a very good trade.

Took him some time to get the smell of Kiki out of Denver.

 

[WALL-e]

Soft voting in the COTY award.

 

[sblack]

Official now.

LeBron James honored as NBA MVP

Unstoppable at both ends of the floor this season, LeBron James is the NBA’s Most Valuable Player.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AmjEr54QkUSEIMqJI7tYCL68vLYF?slug=ap-nbamvp&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

[peternorth]

very official.

kobe robbed

 

[mdc]

very official.

kobe robbed Chris Paul in 2008

Yes, I'm still bitter.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

All-defensive teams are out.

And I must say, they are probably the worst of all time.

 

[matty p]

All-defensive teams are out.

And I must say, they are probably the worst of all time.

Just out of interest, who would've you had in the teams?

For anyone who hasn't seen them:

1st team:
C - Howard
F - Garnett
F - James
G - Bryant
G - Paul

2nd Team:
C - Duncan
F - Battier
F - Artest
G - Wade
G - Rondo

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

FIRST:
C - Howard
F - Battier
F - James
G - Rondo
G - Artest

SECOND:
C - Duncan
F - Kenyon Martin
F - Garnett
G - Wade
G - no1 else

Howard is realistically the only guy that merits the First-Team. No1 else is really worthy.

I don't know how wrong the coaches can get.

 

[matty p]

FIRST:
C - Howard
F - Battier
F - James
G - Rondo
G - Artest

SECOND:
C - Duncan
F - Kenyon Martin
F - Garnett
G - Wade
G - no1 else

Howard is realistically the only guy that merits the First-Team. No1 else is really worthy.

I don't know how wrong the coaches can get.

Yeah I like your 1st team. I'd add Paul to your 2nd team as the other guard. I'd think about having Varejao, Perkins or Yao instead of Martin, but they're all pretty close.

 

[Vegas.]

Wade finished 3rd in DPOY voting, but couldn't manage first team all-D?

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

That's because media votes for DPOY, coaches vote for the defensive-teams.

An even worst case of this was when Dikimbe Mutumbo won the Defensive Player of the Yaer award, but was named on the second-defensive team.

 

[Vegas.]

Granger announced MIP, Harris 2nd, Kid Delicious 3rd.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...t=AkAbsO6Aw9LVJ9DCvd5fxsC8vLYF?urn=nba,162904

It was reasonably close between Granger and Harris.