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Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons both want Defensive Player of the Year. Who should get it?
Both Sixers stars want Defensive Player of the Year. Who has a stronger case?
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The end of the NBA’s regular season is often said to be the least consequential part of the calendar, but it does offer intrigue on two levels: teams jockeying for playoff (or draft lottery) position, and players making their final push for individual awards.
The MVP race always gets the most attention, but Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic should have it about wrapped up. Jokic had a strong case to be considered the front-runner for MVP even before top competitors Joel Embiid and LeBron James missed long stretches with injuries, and none of the other challengers Giannis Antetokounmpo, James Harden, Damian Lillard have done enough to surpass him as the best player of the regular season.
The NBA is blithely back to business as usual and so are its reporters
In March 2020, of all the news events announcing the impending threat of the coronavirus, the headline that definitively signaled to many Americans many sports fans, anyway that a pandemic had arrived was the National Basketball Association’s decision to suspend play. In the months that followed, the NBA’s quick response to a positive test from one of its players, Rudy Gobert, was widely viewed as a case study in responsible corporate action to reduce transmission of the virus. As
Sports Illustratedwrote, “in many ways all other sports, and the country at large, took their cues” from the NBA; meanwhile, ESPN lauded the “high character and compassion” of the league’s commissioner, Adam Silver.
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Before Kenny Blakeney and Mike Brey became Division I basketball coaches, they graduated from the same high school, DeMatha Catholic in Maryland. Brey used to run the JV squad at this hoops powerhouse, and he also taught American history for six classes a day. When Blakeney got in touch last offseason to pitch an idea, he knew Brey would understand its purpose, potential, and merit beyond the court.
The idea was this: On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Brey s Notre Dame Fighting Irish would visit Howard University in D.C. to squeeze a nationally televised, non-conference road game into the thick of their ACC schedule. Blakeney is Howard s head coach and a D.C. native. If pandemic protocols allowed, he envisioned his opponents touring the King memorial, the site of King s I Have a Dream speech, and the
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