MVP favorite Nikola Jokic leads SI’s NBA midseason awards
The NBA season has turned the corner, as we are now slightly beyond the halfway mark of the regular season. Every team has played more than 41 games, which means we have a decent snapshot of how the league is taking shape. With that in mind, let’s hand out some hardware and make our midseason awards picks. This isn’t who necessarily may win these awards by the end of the season; it’s who I would pick for each category if the season ended today.
Brogdon’s efficiency and two-way prowess make him my pick for Sixth Man, which too often goes to the most shameless gunner off the bench. Brogdon is playing only 23.8 minutes a night—a sign of his buy-in to his role more so than an indicator of how much he should be playing. And in that somewhat limited time, he’s averaging practically a 14/4/4 while shooting more than 45% from three. Brogdon is a microcosm of what has made the Celtics the best team in the NBA so far this season.
Bam could more readily play the roles of Lopez and JJJ than they could his. He is elite no matter how you deploy him, whether he’s in the middle of a zone, dropping into the paint or switching onto perimeter players—all ways in which the Heat have asked him to play this year. He is the ultimate defensive Swiss Army knife and has kept the Heat’s defense in the top 10 despite a rash of injuries.
Denver is 17.1 points per 100 better offensively with Jokić on the court. They are also 7.9 points per 100 worse defensively when he sits. Per Cleaning the Glass, Denver’s expected win total with Jokić on the floor is 67, and plummets to a whopping 15 when he’s on the bench. Overall the Nuggets, who are first in the West, are 25.0 points per 100 possessions better with Jokić playing, an even bigger gap than his 2022 MVP campaign.
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