NBA Awards Watch: The Budenholzer-Kerr conundrum
By Brad Rowland
Who leads each of the NBA awards for 2014-15?
The middle of March brings a great deal of discussion about the state of NBA award races. Because there are only a few team-based story lines, including the pushes for the 8-seed in each conference, the focus swings toward individual accomplishment, and that is something that this season has been able to produce in droves.
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Naturally, the MVP race takes the majority of the headlines, but there are also interesting candidates for each and every race (well, except maybe Rookie of the Year…) and chatter is beginning to build. It must be noted that team success almost always has a voice in who takes home individual hardware, even if it shouldn’t, so monitoring the standings isn’t a bad idea.
Last week’s choices for each major award can be seen here, but as you may expect, this is an exceedingly fluid process as the season nears its final segment.
Let’s take a look at the choices, beginning with the Coach of the Year race.
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