NBA Awards Watch: Three-Man Race for Rookie of the Year?
By Brad Rowland
Who leads each of the NBA awards for 2014-15?
The NBA playoffs are less than four weeks away, and it has been an incredible ride. From individual greatness to team-based success stories, the 2014-2015 campaign has provided a wide variety of angles for evaluation and enjoyment, and the league appears to be in fantastic shape moving forward.
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From an individual standpoint, this season’s award races have also been highly intriguing. Only one award race features a runaway (and even that gap is closing a bit as the season progresses), and interesting candidates have emerged from far and wide.
Naturally, the MVP race takes the majority of the headlines, and the league’s most prestigious award has a “short list” of fantastic candidates with interesting resumes for greatness.
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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