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NBA Wires roundtable: Projecting the NBA’s 2023 regular season awards

These are our picks for the league’s full season awards.

The 2022-23 NBA season is officially over, and the votes for the league’s regular season hardware are being tabulated for each of the Association’s major awards. Soon, the world will know who the 2023 Most Valuable Player, Sixth Man of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year are among player awards.

With them will come Coach of the Year, and Executive of the Year as well. Ahead of the official release of which players, coaches, and execs won what awards, our staff at USA TODAY’s NBA Wire sites put their heads together to try and prognosticate the results we think we’ll soon hear in official releases from the league.

So with all that said, these are our picks for the NBA’s 2023 regular season awards.

Boston Celtics snubbed for all 2019-20 NBA end of season awards

Brad Stevens, Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum all found themselves snubbed for the NBA’s 2019-20 end of season awards, with zero Celtics among the finalists.

The Boston Celtics have gotten no love from voters for the NBA’s end of season awards, snubbed in several categories their players were reasonably in the running for a nomination.

The league announced the finalists for its end of season awards on Saturday, with Celtics players conspicuously absent from the Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY), NBA Coach of the Year (COTY) and Kia NBA Most Improved Player (MIP) award races.

Veteran defensive specialist Marcus Smart has made many analysts’ short lists for DPOY, head coach Brad Stevens a frequent mention for COTY, and both Boston wings Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum in the running for MIP.

While it is always an uphill battle for guards in the DPOY contest given the award is nearly always granted to big men, and the COTY race a tight one with a half-dozen viable candidates this season, it is truly surprising neither of the Celtics young wings made the final trio of candidates for MIP.

The candidates who did make the cut for those awards are as follows:

DPOY: 1) Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks; 2) Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers; 3) Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz.

COTY: 1) Mike Budenholzer, Milwaukee Bucks; 2) Billy Donovan, Oklahoma City Thunder; 3) Nick Nurse, Toronto Raptors.

MIP: 1) Bam Adebayo, Miami Heat; 2) Luka Doncic, Dallas Mavericks; 3) Brandon Ingram, New Orleans Pelicans.

The final award winners will be announced during the playoffs — not that Celtics fans will care as much after having been eliminated from contention for the 2019-20 award cycle.

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