From the NY Post:
Immanuel Quickley’s breakout season won’t include any individual hardware.
The Knicks’ super-sub lost out on Sixth Man of the Year honors to Celtics guard Malcolm Brogdon, it was announced on Thursday night.
Bobby Portis of the Bucks finished third.
Quickley enjoyed a fantastic season, averaging career highs of 14.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 44.8 percent shooting from the field.
He also tallied 3.4 assists and only 1.2 turnovers despite his minutes — 28.9 a game — increasing.
They were similar to Brogdon’s numbers of 14.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 48.4 percent shooting.
Brogdon also shot 44.4 percent from 3-point range, compared to Quickley’s 37.0.
The voting was close.
Brogdon won with a total of 408 votes, compared to 326 for Quickley.
What a dumb decision. And it all came down to IQ starting too much. So ridiculous.
11 replies on “The NBA Screws Immanuel Quickley Out of the Sixth Man of the Year Award”
A lot of Rockets fans are not happy right now.
Middle of the 2nd quarter, 12 free throws for the Warriors, 4 for the Kings… most predictable development in ages.
Why are Rockets fans unhappy?
They want Harden. If the Sixers do well, that hurts their chances. Tt’s funny watching the Rockets fans root against the Sixers on social media.
More on RJ… He’s not keeping us from signing any superstars this summer or the next. And in fact his contract could be useful in a trade.
Respectfully, Noble, you did the same bit last year with Randle’s contract and there hasn’t been a single day in the life of it where he hasn’t been worth it.
Two years from now RJ Barrett is going to be 24 years old with two year left on his non max contract in a year where the cap spikes. We can chill on this one. It’s a bad contract but it’s not a big mistake.
Dude needs to ride some pine, though. I think it would be good for all parties if RJ and Evan switched places in the doghouse next year.
How is Phoenix not blowing out the Clips?
LA starting lineup – Batum, Zubac, Westbrook, Gordon and Powell.
Thanks Brian.
I think it’s a long shot then getting him anyway. Players tend to re-sign where they are if their current team treats them reasonably well and is willing to pay them.
That’s normally how it goes, but James Harden is a weird dude, and there were reports about him wanting to go to Houston over Christmas, when the Sixers were playing on Christmas Day, so that’s a really weird thing to become a story if it’s not true, ya know? Like the whole “Where there is smoke, there is fire” deal – “Where there is a leak about a player wanting to go to another team midway through the season, it’s probably a real threat to occur.” Like with all of the leaks about Lebron wanting to go to the Lakers, for instance.
Good point
Clippers fans are probably not complaining any more about acquiring Westbrook.
I mean, they’re down 2-1, so I dunno if they’re exactly pumped, either, at the moment.