Outside of signing or trading for other team’s established stars, the best way NBA franchises improve from one year to the next is through internal development.
At times, it’s hard to predict which players will make that jump for each team – sometimes, they end up being guys you’d never expect it to be or players who aren’t even that young anymore – but more often than not, NBA teams get much-improved output from at least one player on an annual basis.
Below, we present every NBA team’s Most Improved Player thus far for the 2020-21 season.