 What's the word y'all? It might as well be snoring in this room because ladies and gentlemen, today is my Christmas. From today until mid June, I will do nothing but consume an extreme amount of basketball and I will enjoy every single second. Listen, I love the NBA off-season but the last month of it is always so dreadful. So the fact that we are back and the swing of things is going to be amazing and I got to keep the tradition alive and give y'all my award predictions. You know what, I'm low-key a perfectionist whether it be through life, through video, through my job, I'm a perfectionist. So when I was creating my list of players and I think it went MVP and most improving, yada, yada, I was trying my hardest to get the perfect, perfect players. So I went back and I watched my last year's predictions. Guess what, y'all, I got one thing right. So that kind of eased the pain a little bit when trying to create this list because it don't matter if you're right or wrong right now. 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Okay, like I said, I thought a lot about this but I didn't go too hard while I'm like I have to necessarily be right. We're gonna start off with my sixth man of the year. Yeah, I'm not gonna start off with a big thing. I need you to go ahead and watch the entirety of the video. My sixth man of the year. Some of these things I have like sleeper pics and some of them I just ranked one through three, right? My sleeper pics for sixth man of the year, I have one Homer pic for the entire thing and this is the one I think makes the most sense. It is Alex Caruso for sixth man of the year. Some of that might get taken away once Kobe White comes back from his injury but everything I saw from Alex Caruso in the pre-season again, it's just pre-season but he showed what type of player he can be for us and I think a lot of that is moving the ball. He's gonna average over 10 points per game in my opinion. He's gonna get a lot of assists. He's gonna play the floor and be super impactful. So he is my one sleeper pic and then the other one is actually a guy that got an extension yesterday. So shout out to him. It's Kevin Herter. Now a lot of people have him winning but the reason he is just a sleeper for me is there are so many players on that team coming off the bench or just overall then they're gonna get shots. You have Kevin Herter, you're gonna have Bogey, you're going to have Galinari, Kam Reddish. There are so many quality, quality scores on that team that I'm not sure of Kevin Herter is going to have the ability to get all the shots off. I also struggled with six man a year because I wasn't completely sure who was going to start on some teams but those are my two sleepers. Hey, this is about to get super interesting by the way because I think some of my picks are kind of wild maybe not necessarily six man a year but some of my picks once we get up or up on the list you're gonna be like, Kenny, what? Again, it should be interesting. My three picks for six man a year. The first one is Jordan Clark, you're trying to get a repeat in six man a year history. A lot of people get the repeat, get the repeat stuff like that. If you can score a bunch of buckets that's the way you win six man a year in my opinion and that's why Alex Caruso as a sleeper because I don't think he's gonna score nearly on the level of Jordan Clarkson and when you think about six man a year for the most part it is like a Jordan Clarkson tag dude is Lou Williams, it's Mattress Harrell. These are players that have come in and give you 16, 17, 18 points per and I don't think Alex Caruso can do that. Jordan Clarkson definitely, definitely can. Definitely wouldn't be surprised if he ended up winning the award again but I don't think I have any repeat winners. I don't have any repeat winners actually winning it. They might be in contention though. Number two on my list is a dude we talked about yesterday when you're talking about the Miami Heat and it is Tyler Hero. I again, I don't wanna overreact or think too much about the preseason but he looked good. He looked like he got a swagger back, he's got a confidence back and they're gonna really look to him to be an off the bench scorer because they don't really have the type of player in their second unit other than him. He's gonna close out some games. He's gonna do a lot of things this season in my opinion and that is my second pick and my last one. Maybe this is a homer pick too is Derp Rose. What they rely, they relied on him heavily in the playoffs last season. They don't necessarily have to do that anymore because they have every four day coming to the team. RJ Bearish should be better. They have Kimba Walker on the team now but as far as six man bucket getter goes, Derp Rose can be exactly that. So those are my picks for six man of the year. Coach of the year doesn't really matter to me. Here are my top picks, Frank Vogel, Mighty Williams, Steve Nash. Okay, let's keep it moving. Only thing I think somebody else can win it. I'm thinking about a team that's gonna end up top of the conference is one option for coach of the year or the second option is being a team that came out of nowhere like the New York Knicks last season. And I don't know if that team exists. I could be wrong because I mean, if they're coming out of nowhere, nobody's expecting it, right? So is it JB Bicker staff? I don't really know. Let's talk about most improved player. This was the hardest one to pick for. So I went back into history. Over the last seven years, six of the most improved player candidates end up being all stars the year that they got it. So I have Jordan Poole in conversations but I don't think Jordan Poole's gonna take a huge step. But I don't know if he's gonna take the step to make an all-star appearance. Everybody else that has won this award recently jumped up to be an all-star. And they were players that were already good. Everybody knew that these players were good. Julius Rand was good two years ago, but he elevated himself to be really good. Brandon Ingram was already good. He went really good. Pascal was good. He went really good. Jimmy Butler, Victor Ledipo, these are players that already had a reputation of being quality NBA players, but hit the next step, okay? So I have a few players here. My sleeper pick, OG Annobe. I think OG Annobe is going to be really solid. We don't talk about the Raptors a little bit more once I get to my rookie of the year picks, but I think they have a lot of players that are similar mode and similar positions. And yeah, it could definitely work. But the fact that Pascal Siaka might miss the first month of the season, I think that opens the game up more for OG Annobe to get on players' maps and to win most improved player in my personal opinion, you have to get on the map pretty early. You have to get on the map on the first month of the season, average about 20 something out of nowhere and then people start thinking about you. And then a casual fan, once they stop watching, they still thinking about you for most improved player because when they was watching, you was doing your thing. And everybody's watching the first month of the season. So you gotta come out the gate and actually hoop. So here's my sleeper number one. And I looked at the Spurs roster. Somebody has to score. Somebody has to score. The team is not gonna average 70 points per. So the guy I picked is a guy that played for Team USA. Y'all know they always get that Olympic bump and that will be Keldon Johnson. How much would he jump up to? I don't really know. But I think Keldon Johnson's a super, super quality NBA player. The only thing I worry about with him is I think he would have to take a huge, huge jump because he is playing as San Antonio. And at this point in their franchise, they are a rebuilding team. And I don't know if a lot of people are watching. So he would have to elevate his play to a crazy amount for people to start watching the Spurs this year. Now, number three on my list is Jordan Poole. I already mentioned it in the pre-season. He looked amazing with Clay Thompson being out of this injury. It looks like Jordan Poole is gonna take the responsibility of taking a lot of shots, which is dope. I think he can win it. Adam Third, because of the thing I mentioned earlier, I legitimately think, and it could be different this year, but if you look at all of the previous winners other than CJ McCullum, but he didn't, CJ went from like seven points per game to 21. That was crazy. He's just got more opportunity. Every one of these players went from a good NBA player that everybody knew to a player that was an all star. And in some cases, all NBA. So my top two guys are players in that mode. These are players that we all know are really good NBA players. But which one of the players can elevate the most? And the first one is Michael Porter Jr. On my podcast, we were talking about this. And somebody mentioned Michael Porter Jr. for most improved player. And I said to them, I don't know because he already averaged 19 points per game. On like 50% shooting and 40% from three, how much better can he get? And the answer is he could probably jump up to 25 points per game. And if he's averaging 25 points per game, Yoke is still doing MVP caliber things. They're gonna be in the playoff contention once all star game comes around and he's gonna get some votes. He's gonna get some votes. You never know how the season goes. Somebody get injured and boom, there's an extra open spot in the Western Conference. So I think he might be second on my list. It might be a generic answer because I think a lot of people understand that Michael Porter Jr. is gonna score a lot of points this year. But I honestly do believe it as well. And my number one pick might be wild because I think everybody knows that this player is great. Yeah, I was like 19 points per game last year. He led his team to the playoffs even though his second best player only played 11 regular season games. It's Jamarrent. And my thought is Jamarrent blossoms into superstardom. And that is why I believe he could be the most improved player. Year number three for a lot of guards is the year when they blossom to the max. And I think that can happen with Jamarrent this season. So that is my pick for most improved player. Buckleley and I told y'all it was gonna be wild ladies and I told you it was gonna be wild. Let's talk about Rookie of the Year. I told y'all last year, I got everything wrong except for Yolkets. My pick for Rookie of the Year last year was Killian Hayes. It was Killian Hayes last year. I don't want to be burned this year. So I went maybe a little bit more safe this year than previous years. My sleeper picks, Scotty Barnes, I think might, is this crazy to say? He's gonna be one of the top two players in his draft class in my personal opinion. Just projecting careers and who can do what. I think he has all the tools in his bag to be great. And I don't know anything about Scotty Barnes who he was drafted but I watched Summer League and I watched pre-season. I think he does a little bit of everything right now and every single year a player like that can progress or he could plateau what's happens to a lot of players that can do a little bit of everything. But I think he has a spirit. He has the fan support to blossom into a star but I have him in sleepers because I do believe there are a lot of players in this team that do similar things. Whether it be OG on the Nobby, whether it be Pascal Sihyakam. They have so many people around him and when it comes to Ricky of the Year, my opinion is usually a guy that's giving the keys and say, hey, take the shots you want. Go get some buckets, all right? So he is a sleeper. I got Trey Murphy as a sleeper. He was stellar in pre-season and in Summer League. Some of that has to transition over and with Zion Wilson missing some time early on he might get a little bit of buzz if he goes out there and he shoots 50% from three. And my biggest sleeper is Jared Butler. Don't have to talk about it. Just saying, if you don't know the name, you gotta tune in because that boy was hoping. Now let's get to my actual top three. Number three on this list is Jalen Sucks. And I really wanted to pick Jalen Sucks to win the award but I look at their roster. I see Marquiel Foltz coming back eventually. I see Cole Anthony getting some run at the guard position. I see RJ Hampton. I see Gary Harris. There's so many guards that deserve minutes on their team. I just don't know how many shots Jalen Sucks is gonna be able to put up in Orlando but I really like the homie Jalen Sucks and his odds. Next we have Kade Cunningham. You know who's gonna be one and two. Which one did I have one? Which one did I have two? And I don't know what's necessarily going on with Kade Cunningham and his injury. I don't know if he's gonna be out for a couple of days. He's gonna be out for a couple of weeks and momentum is everything in the NBA. And I think that the winner of this award is Jalen Green. He's gonna put up ridiculous stats. There's nobody that's taken a ball out of his hands other than Kevin Porter Jr. And already it seems like those two players like playing together. And Kevin Porter Jr. is a very willing passer. I think Jalen Green is gonna take a ton of shots and hit a ton of shots. But I can also see it going similar to what happened last year where you have the guy that gets a bunch of buckets that will be Jalen Green slash Anthony Edwards. And you have the guy that's like, okay I'm gonna come into this organization and immediately become the leader that can be the Lamello ball, Kade Cunningham. We shall see. The only difference is that Lamello ball led his team to a playing spot and was like a top seed at one point. I don't think the Detroit Pistons are doing this this year but who really knows. Defensive player of the year. Last year I picked Bama DeBio. I was wrong there. Like I said, I got a lot of things wrong. I don't really have sleepers for this one. I feel like getting your name into the conversation of great defenders is hard. Like yeah, people that watch the game of basketball can be like, oh that's a really good defender. But for you to get the reputation of as a good defender is hard. It takes a lot of media buffs and like people that is actually watching and writing articles and stuff. Nobody's comes into the scene randomly like, oh that guy's a defender now. You have to build that reputation. With that being said, I don't believe that Rudy Go Barrett is going to win defensive player of the year this year. I think he's gonna have amazing defensive statistics. But let me show you something. Rudy Go Barrett is now tied right now for the second most defensive player of the years in the career. Do you honestly believe the voters are gonna put him on the level of Ben Wallace and the Kimbe Mutombo? I don't think they will. I don't think they will. And again, the opinion about Rudy Go Barrett is lower now than it's ever been. So I don't think he repeats and get that fourth title. I don't think it's gonna happen. My number three pick in this award is Joel Embiid. A lot of people give Ben Simmons a credit for defense. Of course, he deserves it. He's an amazing defender. But I think because Ben Simmons is such a great defender at the point of attack that people don't really realize how good of a defender Joel Embiid is protecting the rim. And if Ben Simmons is not gonna play or he's gonna play 30 games with them, yada, yada, yada. More people might realize how good of a defender Joel Embiid is on the backside. And I think that might give him some defensive player of the year, Buzz. Second is going to be Draymond Green. The Warriors are gonna be better than they were last year, in my opinion. And that means that more people are gonna realize that Draymond is still a good defender and he just finished top three last year. But my winner of this award, I'm doubling down on Bam on the bio. I picked them last year. And if he don't win it this year, I'm never picking you again, Bam. It was hard to narrow it down and not put the eye on this or Anthony Davis on this list because I do believe those players definitely have a good chance but I narrowed it down to just my three. Bam, do not disappoint me. I think that the Miami Heat are gonna have one of the best offensive teams in the league and you have to pick somebody, right? They're probably not gonna pick the wing and Jimmy Butler. They're gonna pick the rim protecting dude that can switch onto guards and do a little bit of everything and that's Bam out of bio. And now it is the pick you've been waiting for. The MVP. Now, when I think about most value player, majority of the time is going to a guy that's on one of the top two to three seeds in a conference. We have some anomaly years. Russell Westbrook, Avidon and Triple Double, even though they didn't want a top seed. It was historic here. He got it. But for the most part, it's going to one of the guys that is on one of the greatest, greater teams in the league because I mean, if you are the most valuable player to your team, your team is gonna be good. And voting is different every single year. Sometimes you get the Steve Nash pick which is not like the guy that's not gonna have the main statistics but like advanced stats, love them and his team was super solid. So there has been a disconnect between what MVP is versus who really deserves it yada yada yada yada. Cause you can argue, LeBron James has been the most valuable player for the last decade, but he don't win it every single year. There's voted fatigue, there's a lot of different stuff. So my sleeper picks, and I mean my first pick is really a sleeper and it's Jason Tatum. It is Jason Tatum. And that is really contingent on the fact that if the Boston Celtics are really, really good, it would have to be because of Jason Tatum. The next one is Jolin Bede. He does have the narrative part of his season down pack, but I just, I still believe that since Ben Simmons is there, there's a little bit of turmoil there and they might not be as good even if Ben Simmons does play or if he doesn't play and that might prevent him from snagging one of the top two seats. He was one of the finalists last year and I think he can do it again, but it's just a different scenario now. And the last sleeper pick I have is Luca. Luca's got a lot of MVP love and it makes sense. He's one of the top seven, five, whatever number player in the league, but I've mentioned this like 10 times this off season and I hope they make me swallow my words, but I don't believe in the surrounding pieces around him to be one of the top seeds in the league. And again, I do believe you have to be one of the top seeds in the league. Now I'm narrowing it down to my top three. I think that there's a possibility that Yoke's repeats. I do believe that they're gonna be a quality NBA team and they're still gonna be one of the top teams in the conference. I mentioned Michael Porter Jr. as being an MIP candidate. He's gonna help them stay afloat and I do believe that they can still steal maybe not a one seat, a two seat, a three seat if they can stay healthy outside of Jamal Murray and Yoke is just a freak of nature. Every advanced stat last year pointed that Nikola Yoke has deserved that award and I can see him replicating that type of thing. The narrative behind him, well, Jamal Murray's out for a significant part of the season and he still was great and they still were great. My number two pick is Kevin Durant. The fact that Kevin Durant only has one MVP award under his trophy case has to maybe rub him a little bit because I think they had this whole campaign when he was early in his career. He was like not number two or tired of being number two and it feels like for a majority of his career he's felt like the second best player in the league which is great, but he's always wanted to be number one. This might be a year where he submits himself as the best player in the league. He's going to be on the Brooklyn Nets, you are going to be amazing and though they have a bunch of different options Kevin Durant is the guy, but my pick, my number one pick is Yanis. And we talked about that in the video like two nights ago, so if you missed that one I highly, highly recommend it. Executive of the year? Executive of the year? Our tourist Karni Shovas because the Bulls are going to tear some people up this season. So those are my picks. Some of them a bit wild, yes indeed. But what type of video would it be on this channel if I wasn't being wild? Let me know what your picks are. Again shout out to prize picks. I really want y'all to download the app and what I want y'all to do is when you are making your picks, tweet them at me.