NBA Awards: Betting Most Improved Player (pt. 3)
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🗓️ 15 July 2022
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| 0:00.0 | We have done another deep dive into the awards market in the NBA. I just went down the |
| 0:20.8 | list of previous most improved players. Like if you go back and look at the winners of |
| 0:24.4 | this, you can't find any sort of history. If you're looking at like the mid 90s and early |
| 0:29.8 | 2000s, other than like the early 2000s, it's everybody just change teams like Tracy McGrady |
| 0:35.1 | went to the magic, your man on the one to the Pacers. Well Gilbert Reen is didn't |
| 0:38.4 | what the war is, but then Zach Randolph had more of a just bigger role from nothing to |
| 0:42.7 | a big role suddenly in Portland. It's either it's not just like you played and you were |
| 0:47.0 | good. It was you did nothing, which is always how I thought of the most improved player |
| 0:50.9 | award more. Where it's a guy that went from getting maybe 10 minutes of game to they |
| 0:54.9 | just look great and camp. They get out there and they their role continues to grow as |
| 0:59.8 | the season goes on. Like that's what I always think of his most improved as opposed to |
| 1:03.2 | Julius Randall winning and John Morant where you're like these guys have already been good. |
| 1:07.3 | They're already good players. They just went to better. It's there are a couple on here |
| 1:12.3 | though. I have to at least point this out. The only time in the history of the award that |
| 1:16.2 | a guy's average less than 10 points a game was Ike Austin with the heat in 1997 9.7 points |
| 1:22.4 | and 5.8 rebounds. And that was your most improved player in the NBA in 1997. What are the |
| 1:29.5 | improved from me? That was the most improved player. Right. I will how low was the bar. She is. |
| 1:35.5 | I can't imagine it was very high. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. So I think a couple of things we've |
| 1:40.1 | we've unearthed here as a result of this analysis. We think Anthony Edwards is like a viable winner, |
| 1:45.7 | but we have a couple questions like is he already too good, but he's a viable winner. He's the |
| 1:49.5 | favorite. He should be the favorite I think. We've uncovered that the Mitchell trade could potentially |
| 1:54.6 | really upset the nix ability to field a winner of this award because Mitchell will just essentially |
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