The NBA will announce the Coach of the Year award winner on Monday evening, the league’s PR department tweets.
Kenny Atkinson (Cavaliers), J.B. Bickerstaff (Pistons) and Ime Udoka (Rockets) are the three finalists. Atkinson, who led Cleveland to the best record in the East, is considered a heavy favorite to win the award.
The Executive of the Year award will be announced on Tuesday and the Social Justice Champion will be revealed on Wednesday.
We have more from around the basketball world:
- Not surprisingly, the Thunder are ranked No. 1 in the league in terms of draft assets by ESPN’s Bobby Marks and Jeremy Woo. They could potentially have three first-rounders in this year’s draft. They have six extra first-rounders in future years, plus swap rights to three years. They also own 17 future second-rounders. The Nets, Jazz, Rockets and Hornets round out the top five.
- Evan Fournier, who is currently looking to win a EuroLeague championship with Olympiacos in Greece, spoke about a handful of topics, including his disappointing experience with the Knicks, in an interview with Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews.com (subscription required). Fournier played two-and-a-half seasons in New York and finished last season with the Pistons.
- “Roundball Rock” is back. NBC will bring back the sports theme song next season when the network begins its 11-year media rights deal to air NBA games. Music composer and radio and TV personality John Tesh wrote “Roundball Rock,” which became popular during NBC’s coverage of the league from 1990-2002, according to Jenna West of The Athletic.
Who does the Magic have aside from Wagner and Banchero that have trade value?
Meant this for the Magic piece…
They have their own and Denver’s firsts this off season. They have next year’s first but the conditions are too convoluted for me to figure out. Then they have all their firsts until 2021. Anthony Black is tradeable if they believe Suggs can come back to full strength and they have whichever of Carter, Isaac and Bitadze.
Black seems like a good young asset they would want to keep.
lol being the top team and all those draft assets. Presti is a genius.
Issac has no place in the league. Dump him.
I can guarantee why you said that clown
So what did Evan Fournier say about his experience with the Knicks?
What was disappointing? Why post the question without giving us at least one snippet, one line?
We’ve commented on this before Dana.
Is this the goal of a Hoops rumors article…
“Good morning, a player was disappointed in his experience with a certain team. You can read it here if you’re a subscriber. Thank you. Have a nice day.”
What’s the point of bringing that up? Adds zero value to the article here.
Just give us one line that you read. Didn’t get enough playing time? Didn’t get along with the coach? Something.
This could fall under the category of Clickbait if you tease with a name of player and team, but give zero information.
I hope this makes sense, but if I’m off base and everyone is ok with this including the bosses, then fair enough. Continue with the teaser headlines.
Dana, I like what you did with the other subscription piece that you mention above by giving some details.
Now we have a clue what’s going on with the basketball theme song situation you bring up in the headline.
Thank you.
Keep on it, Gary. I’ve been saying for some years now that not only do the HR writers need to point out paywalls on articles they link, but also need to provide at least a major point or two from those articles, if not a summary. They’ve done pretty well on pointing out paywalls, but the other part of it has been slipping lately.
Most of us are NOT going to subscribe to all these paywalled sites. HR aggregates content, that’s why they have subscriptions, so we don’t have to. Give us more content from the paywalled articles.
Ba ba ba ba basketball. Ge ge ge ge gimme the ball because I’m gonna dunk it!
Pistons went from 14 to 44 W
Only time in history a tm tripled its W total in 1 yr
COY should easily go to detroit
Cavs might lose the series right after Kenny gets his coaches trophy. Bad look. Donavan is never going to win a ring unless he KD’s it.
Hopefully this pays off for NBC and they can draw more than 1 million viewers but with ratings declining every year I don’t see it