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RESULTS: 2023 r/nba Player Awards

  • April 11, 2023


Thank you to the 5,700 or so people that voted in the survey! Now, jumping straight to the results which come with a surprise or two:

#Most Valuable Player

**WINNER: Joel Embiid**

2nd place: Giannis Antetokounmpo

3rd place: Nikola Jokic

4th place: Jayson Tatum

5th place: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

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#Defensive Player of the Year

**WINNER: Jaren Jackson Jr.**

2nd place: Brook Lopez

3rd place: Giannis Antetokounmpo

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#Rookie of the Year

**WINNER: Paolo Banchero**

2nd place: Jalen Williams

3rd place: Walker Kessler

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#Sixth Man of the Year

**WINNER: Immanuel Quickley**

2nd place: Malcolm Brogdon

3rd place: Bobby Portis

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#Most Improved Player

**WINNER: Lauri Markkanen**

2nd place: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

3rd place: Mikal Bridges

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#Clutch Player of the Year

**WINNER: De’Aaron Fox**

2nd place: Joel Embiid

3rd place: Donovan Mitchell

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#Coach of the Year

**WINNER: Mike Brown**

2nd place: Joe Mazzulla

3rd place: Mike Budenholzer

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#[For those curious, you can find the full results as well as the breakdown of all 5,729 individual votes by clicking here.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17lROqz5epK5b0y0t8gnuy3ZbApioKQMM3-HzMO0FOkk/edit?usp=sharing)

26 comments

  4. SGA getting the recognition he deserves, he really improved in all aspects this year

    Mobley should be at least third for dpoy tho

  6. Bucks have a guy in 2nd or 3rd place for almost every stat. This is brutal lol

  10. Having two players nearly winning defensive player of the year on the same team is extremely wired.

    Also kinda confused how Mobley wasn’t in the top 3????

  14. Embiid was a comfortable first place in the MVP results, Giannis and Jokic had almost an identical number of first place votes but the former had a decent amount more second place votes.

    Following along live, Sabonis was 5th place most of the time while this poll was live but got pipped by SGA in the last hour or so of voting.

    JJJ and Lopez were incredibly close the whole way through for DPOY, JJJ pulled away a bit at the end though.

    Jason Kidd finished 21st in COTY.

  17. What’s the argument for IQ over Malcolm? I think IQ is great and definitley deserves top 2 but it seems like Knicks fans think he should be the runaway favorite which is confusing. Brogdon is averaging the exact same points and assists but more rebounds on less minutes per game.

  21. Can someone give me a serious argument for IQ over Brogdon, other than there being more NYK fans? Brogdon leads in basically all counting stats and was more efficient. I suppose IQ has the defensive edge but it’s not a huge gap.

    Don’t tell me it’s because IQ started 20+ games – the Cs specifically planned for Brogdon not to start at all this season, regardless of what players were out. He absolutely could have started plenty of games.

    I’m obviously biased but I have yet to hear a legit argument.

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