NBA Awards-ETHAN

NBA Awards
By Ethan V.
6-25-19

     Yesterday was the NBA Awards. The NBA Awards is the NBA award ceremony for the best in the NBA that season. Here are some of the Awards.
     The first award that I will be talking about is Most Improved Player. This is a player who had a good or better season that came off a not so good season or maybe an injury. This year Pascal Siakam 
won it because he didn't have a remarkable season last year but this season he won the championship with the Raptors and helped them a lot.
     Another big award is Rookie of the year.  This is given to the best rookie in that season. This year it was tough to tell if either Luka Dončić or Trae Young would win it. But in the end Luka won the award and I think because he had a better first half of the season than Trae.
     Bench warmers listen up! You have an award just for you! That award is the Sixth man award which is basically an award for the best bench player. Like last year, Lou Williams won the award because he chooses to come off the bench and he is 100% the best bench player. 
     The lifetime achievement award is the award for a former player that did something great during his career. For the First time ever this year two people won the award. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, who both won the award are both considered  Some of the all time greats. This award has been around only 3 seasons and Micheal Jordan has not won it!It has to be coming for him soon because he's basically the G.O.A.T(Greatest Of All Time).
     You might have heard of Robin Roberts before. If not, she's on Good Morning America. She used to be a sports reporter and a great basketball player in high school and college. She was honored for the Sager Strong award named after a sideline reporter who died of cancer. She won because she has survived cancer and another life threatening disease. She survived both of these and  now we can honor her today. 
      The last and greatest award you can get at the NBA awards is the NBA MVP. This stands for Most Valuable Player and it basically means you were the best in the NBA that year and this year James Harden and Giannis Antetokounmpo were neck and neck but Giannis won.
The reason for this is Giannis was better on Defense and made it deeper into the playoffs then Harden.
      In conclusion, the NBA awards is a great award ceremony and next year I recommend that you watch some of it (If you care about basketball).