Nets forward Kevin Durant and Mavericks guard Luka Doncic have been named the NBA’s Players of the Week for the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, respectively, the league announced today (via Twitter).
In his first full week back after returning from a knee injury earlier this month, Durant led the Nets to wins over Charlotte, Philadelphia, and New York during the week of March 7-13, averaging 30.7 PPG, 7.7 RPG, and 7.7 APG on .522/.364/.875 shooting in those three games (38.2 MPG). It’s the second time this season that he has earned Player of the Week honors.
It’s Doncic’s second Player of the Week award this season too — he also won it exactly one month ago. This past week, he led the Mavericks to a 3-1 record, averaging 30.5 PPG, 11.0 RPG, 6.3 APG, and 1.8 SPG on .494/.395/.767 shooting in 36.5 minutes per contest.
Durant beat out fellow nominees Giannis Antetokounmpo, Darius Garland, Pascal Siakam, and Wendell Carter Jr. in the East. The other Western Conference nominees were Deandre Ayton, Nikola Jokic, Ja Morant, and Jordan Poole (Twitter link).
Please!!, anyone but the moaner!
If you ask me they should make some kind of system where each time you are player of the week you earn a raffle ticket.
At the end of the year they can raffle off things like a big screen tv or a pizza party for your team, etc.
This would give some weight and meaning to these awards. Otherwise it’s kinda a game of who cares…
That’s dumb. KD had a 14 point game last Tuesday and then 25 before going off for 53 yesterday. Giannis went 39, 43, 31. But what else is new: the ethnocentric NBA prefers almost anyone to Giannis. Even Luka, because he at least came from the Euroleague which is a background other players and media respect.
Someone is obsessed…sheesh
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Yeah the NBA really delivers for the Euroleague.
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I see three haters above who don’t respect foreign-developed players. Tells me a bit about your personalities and values.
You are very confused, probably by nature.
Sacramento kings should’ve drafted luka and they shoulda beat the lakers in 2002. Oh wel
Yeah well Larsten Krieg should have time travelled to 3045 so they could use bloodborne nanites to murder Genghis Khan but nobody is perfect.