Welcome to report card time.
This stretch of January around Martin Luther King Jr. Day is usually peak evaluation time in the NBA front-office world. It’s one of the milestone points where teams will have full-staff pow-wows and talk things out, the equivalent of deep cleaning versus running the vacuum. The timing is perfect: The trade deadline is still a couple of weeks away, but there’s a half season of new data to pore over.
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So today, let’s put together a status report of sorts on the major award categories. Consider this a halfway-point snapshot, written in chalk rather than ink. Things can and will happen in the second half of
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