Welcome on to our first 2024-25 awards edition of Dunkdown.

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some caveats before in a pre-show.

So I think the most important one to note with this is that these are not predictive.

This is not who we think will be the MVP defensive player at the end of the year.

Nor is it predictive of who we think our colleagues would vote for.

No, no.

It is who we think deserves this award using, broadly speaking, the criteria of the award

at this point in time.

That is using the games we have, I will tell you, I didn't regionally factor in, you know,

like the percentage eligibility criteria or anything like that if you played.

So that's really the big one, is that it's, it is what we've seen so far.

The other general thing that I'll note is that if a player played in fewer than half of

his team's games, I absolutely did not consider them for anything.

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