Thank you to the 5,700 or so people that voted in the survey! Now, jumping straight to the results which come with a surprise or two:
#Most Valuable Player
**WINNER: Joel Embiid**
2nd place: Giannis Antetokounmpo
3rd place: Nikola Jokic
4th place: Jayson Tatum
5th place: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
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#Defensive Player of the Year
**WINNER: Jaren Jackson Jr.**
2nd place: Brook Lopez
3rd place: Giannis Antetokounmpo
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#Rookie of the Year
**WINNER: Paolo Banchero**
2nd place: Jalen Williams
3rd place: Walker Kessler
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#Sixth Man of the Year
**WINNER: Immanuel Quickley**
2nd place: Malcolm Brogdon
3rd place: Bobby Portis
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#Most Improved Player
**WINNER: Lauri Markkanen**
2nd place: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
3rd place: Mikal Bridges
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#Clutch Player of the Year
**WINNER: De’Aaron Fox**
2nd place: Joel Embiid
3rd place: Donovan Mitchell
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#Coach of the Year
**WINNER: Mike Brown**
2nd place: Joe Mazzulla
3rd place: Mike Budenholzer
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#[For those curious, you can find the full results as well as the breakdown of all 5,729 individual votes by clicking here.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17lROqz5epK5b0y0t8gnuy3ZbApioKQMM3-HzMO0FOkk/edit?usp=sharing)
by nick168
30 Comments
HIMMANUEL QUICKLEY!!!!
I’ve never trusted letting the media vote instead of the fans more
Jokic 3rd. Nuggets fans are coming.
SGA getting the recognition he deserves, he really improved in all aspects this year
Mobley should be at least third for dpoy tho
Shai 5th in MVP, hell yeah.
Bucks have a guy in 2nd or 3rd place for almost every stat. This is brutal lol
Can Lebron be executive of the year?
Embiid is even the MVP for white teenagers
Checkmate
this is zach lowe’s fault
Having two players nearly winning defensive player of the year on the same team is extremely wired.
Also kinda confused how Mobley wasn’t in the top 3????
Damn literally all my picks exactly in order except COTY
Jokic 3rd! Not my mvp!
Mitchell getting clutch votes. I’m so glad he turned it around.
Embiid was a comfortable first place in the MVP results, Giannis and Jokic had almost an identical number of first place votes but the former had a decent amount more second place votes.
Following along live, Sabonis was 5th place most of the time while this poll was live but got pipped by SGA in the last hour or so of voting.
JJJ and Lopez were incredibly close the whole way through for DPOY, JJJ pulled away a bit at the end though.
Jason Kidd finished 21st in COTY.
Embiid is hiim
where mobley
What’s the argument for IQ over Malcolm? I think IQ is great and definitley deserves top 2 but it seems like Knicks fans think he should be the runaway favorite which is confusing. Brogdon is averaging the exact same points and assists but more rebounds on less minutes per game.
Bobby robbed of 6man of the year
The Mobley disrespect…
Jokic 3rd? 5 or 6 in my ballot.
Can someone give me a serious argument for IQ over Brogdon, other than there being more NYK fans? Brogdon leads in basically all counting stats and was more efficient. I suppose IQ has the defensive edge but it’s not a huge gap.
Don’t tell me it’s because IQ started 20+ games – the Cs specifically planned for Brogdon not to start at all this season, regardless of what players were out. He absolutely could have started plenty of games.
I’m obviously biased but I have yet to hear a legit argument.
They are not that bad to be honest besides some 2nd or 3rd places
Shout out to the Stephen Silas truthers out there who voted him as COTY lolol.
76ers fleeced the nba, cya when they get bounced in the second round💀
That JJJ conspiracy thread will never be forgotten lol
so will flopbiib now get past the 2nd round?
Lol Taytum top 5 on a stacked ass team
Mark “Big D” not being COTY is a scam and you can’t convince me otherwise
Funny that r/nba didn’t even have Mobley as too 3 dpoy but he’s gonna win it
Shai over Luka? Man, narratives are a powerful drug.