NBA Awards 2024-25

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Nate and Danny make their final selections for the NBA’s awards. For the first time ever, it was so close that they both changed their MVP pick in the course of the discussion. Plus, a discussion of all* the other major awards, plus a few we’ve made up ourselves. Most Valuable Player (MVP): 0:00:24 Rest of MVP Ballot: 22:00 All-NBA Teams: 26:47 Coach of the Year: 38:10 Most Improved Player: 44:10 Rookie of the Year : 1:02:20 All-Rookie Team : 1:07:23 Best Sophomore : 1:09:39 Sixth Man of the Year : 1:10:26 Executive of the Year : 1:17:30 Not Executive of the Year : 1:29:00 Most Disappointing Player : 1:38:49 Biggest Surprise Player : 1:44:58 Biggest Surprise Team : 1:47:32 Most Disappointing Team : 1:48:56 *Note: DPOY and All-Defense will be a separate podcast. Nate and Danny make their final selections for the NBA’s awards. For the first time ever, it was so close that they both changed their MVP pick in the course of the discussion. Plus, a discussion of all* the other major awards, plus a few we’ve made up ourselves. Most Valuable Player (MVP): 0:00:24 Rest of MVP Ballot: 22:00 All-NBA Teams: 26:47 Coach of the Year: 38:10 Most Improved Player: 44:10 Rookie of the Year : 1:02:20 All-Rookie Team : 1:07:23 Best Sophomore : 1:09:39 Sixth Man of the Year : 1:10:26 Executive of the Year : 1:17:30 Not Executive of the Year : 1:29:00 Most Disappointing Player : 1:38:49 Biggest Surprise Player : 1:44:58 Biggest Surprise Team : 1:47:32 Most Disappointing Team : 1:48:56 *Note: DPOY and All-Defense will be a separate podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome on. The penultimate Sunday of this season is in the books. Much has been going on, but you don't care about boring regular season games and things like who's going to be what seed and who's going to be what seed in the lottery and what teams are intentionally losing even harder than they already were. What teams are almost losing to those teams that are intentionally losing even harder than they already were. What teams are almost losing
0:21.7	to those teams that are intentionally losing almost harder than they already were? We got to talk
0:26.3	about awards here. And we have what I would probably, at least in my own mind, consider to be
0:33.4	the closest MVP race since we have started dunked on in 2015. I wholeheartedly agree. And
0:41.6	there are, you know, to say that these two players, Nikoliyokic and Shea Gildas Alexander in no
0:47.3	particular order are in the same tier, is I think kind of understating things a bit. They're
0:51.2	incredibly close. And while I have my choice here, and I don't think that
0:56.4	the final week of games is going to move things too dramatically in that respect. I completely,
1:04.1	like, it is, I think it's completely acceptable for the other to win. Like, it is completely justified.
1:09.5	Both of them are deserving winners. Both of them
1:12.5	have basically, to me, equal weight cases. Before we get into the statistical case for all these,
1:18.2	I do want to go through all vet and let y'all know everything that we've considered that. I think
1:22.9	this close of MVP race deserves that we go through pretty much everything. But what are your criteria
1:29.9	for MVP, Danny? Let's start with that because it is somewhat open-ended. It is open-ended,
1:35.0	but for me, it is the player who most cohesively impacted winning over the course of a season.
1:43.0	And that includes the amount of time they played
1:45.6	because that, you know, because that means you don't have to have a replacement and everything
1:49.2	else. Um, fortunately, that is actually pretty close between the, the two gentlemen that are at the
1:54.0	top. But really, so it's a mix of offense and defense. It's a mix of team building. It's, um,
1:59.0	how, you know, like individual scoring.
2:01.6	It really is, but that's kind of the way it's true.
2:04.2	It's like, who impacted their team winning the most this year?
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