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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.

What other awards might be in the mix for the Boston Celtics besides Defensive Player of the Year?

Several could conceivably be in play.

There are at least four honors handed out at the end of an NBA season that current members of the Boston Celtics organization should realistically at least be in the running for, if not outright favorites to win. Executive of the Year (EOTY) for President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens, Coach of the Year (COTY) for Celtics head coach Ime Udoka, All-Defense for rising big man Robert Williams III, and All-NBA for superstar forward Jayson Tatum are the four which might just be nabbed by Celtics this year

And that’s not even considering the Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY) for veteran Boston point guard Marcus Smart, who is currently the odds-on favorite to win the award.

Host of the regular NBC Sports Boston “Forsberg’s Four” segment Chris Forsberg lays out a case for each n a new video put together to stump for the hometown team’s chances to take home some hardware after an amazing midseason turnaround.

Watch the clip embedded above to hear why Boston ought to be considered for All-Defense, All-NBA, EOTY, and COTY on top of Smart’s ironclad case for DPOY.

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