As the 2023 NBA playoffs ramp up, the league’s finest and brightest from the past season will be separately honored for their achievements.
Follow along to see who takes house 2022-23 NBA MVP, Most Improved Player, Defensive Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and more!
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Sixth Man of the Year: Malcolm Brogdon, Boston Celtics
Before gettinghere in Boston this season, Brogdon began in 258 of the 333 videogames in which he played over the veryfirst 6 years of his profession. But the Celtics had other concepts for the 30-year-old combination guard, and as it turns out, the C’s choice to bring Brodgon off the bench for the totality of the season might not have turned out muchbetter.
Brogdon balanced 14.9 points — third-most on the Celtics behind Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown — along with 4.2 rebounds and 3.7 helps in 26 minutes per videogame throughout the routine season. He shot a career-best 44.4% from range in assisting Boston protected the No. 2 seed in the East. He likewise scored 20 or more 18 times on the year.
Coach of the Year: Mike Brown, Sacramento Kings
The Kings employed Mike Brown to change their interim head coach, Alvin Gentry, in May2022 In his veryfirst season with the group, Brown snapped Sacramento’s 17-year playoff dryspell by training the Kings to the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. This is Brown’s 2nd time winning Coach of the Year, as he won the award in 2009 as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Jerry West Clutch Player of the Year: De’Aaron Fox, Sacramento Kings
Fox was by far the Association’s finest gamer in crunch time. The novice All-Star in 2023 led the NBA in clutch points (194) and clutch points per videogame (5.0) in the routine season. He likewise sank a league-high 3 consent field objectives in the last 2nd of the 4th quarter or overtime, and shot 52.9% from the flooring in clutch minutes.
Fox’s ability for success in crunch time was obvious in Games 1 and 2 of Sacramento’s first-round series versus Golden State, as he balanced 31 points, 7 helps and 3.5 takes per videogame to assistance the King go up 2-0.
Fox is the first-ever winner of the Jerry West Clutch Player of the Year.
Defensive Player of the Year: Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
Jackson led the NBA by balancing 3.0 obstructs per videogame — likewise a Grizzlies single-season franchise record — and balanced almost 7 rebounds per videogame. The Grizzlies endedup veryfirst in the West and 3rd in the NBA with a 110.7 defensive score, and Jackson was a huge factor why.
This is Jackson’s initially profession DPOY award. He got 56 initially location votes to beat out fellow finalists Brook Lopez of the Milwaukee Bucks and Evan Mobley of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 23-year-old Michigan State item is the second-youngest NBA gamer to win the award, routing just Dwight Howard in the 2008-09 season.
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