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Knicks Julius Randle named NBAs Most Improved Player Field Level Media 26 May 2021, 10:19 GMT+10 New York Knicks forward Julius Randle won the NBAs Most Improved Player award for 2020-21 Tuesday. Randle received 98 of the 100 first-place votes for the award from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters, according to the NBA. Randle (493 points) was left off one ballot. In his seventh season and on his third team, Randle set or tied career highs in almost every major statistical category du...

Perhaps no contract struck in the opening hours of free agency last November hiked eyebrows higher than the one the Pistons and Jerami Grant agreed to sign calling for a reported $60 million over three years. A few months later, the fact Grant was the object of contenders’ trade overtures said everything about the way perspective had swung. Grant, named last week as one of three finalists for the NBA’s Most Improved Player award, had the best season of his seven-year NBA career. He averaged...

The NBA announced finalists for their six major various individual awards for the 2020-21 season, including regular-season MVP and Rookie of the Year.

Photo by Stephen Brashear/NBAE via Getty Images The Las Vegas Aces and Seattle Storm will meet once again on Tuesday, May 18, just days after their initial bout to start the 2021 WNBA season. Meanwhile, the New York Liberty return to Barclays Center to take on the Minnesota Lynx, while the Phoenix Mercury travel to Washington, D.C. to take on the Mystics. Seattle’s 97-83 thumping of Las Vegas last Saturday was a statement game of sorts for the defending champs. While the two teams seemed head...

With the 2020-21 Wolves’ season now in the books, let’s examine Timberwolves fans’ confidence moving forward and some award talk from around the league.

Can’t imagine a win over OKC would change that opinion too much.

Sabrina Ionescu dreamt of making a game-winning shot on Thursday night and made one on Friday night to lift the New York Liberty past the Indiana Fever in the WNBA’s season opener.

to join Reacts. As the playoffs approach, the biggest surprise of the season is likely the success of the New York Knicks. For the first time since 2013, the Knicks have reached the postseason and they did so without a true superstar leading the team. They don’t have to look too far back in history for inspiration either, with Jimmy Butler leading the similarly-built Miami Heat to a revelatory performance inside the NBA Bubble in Orlando and taking the Los Angeles Lakers to six games in the...

SBNation Reacts: Where fans think Tom Thibodeau, not Monty Williams, gets the Coach of the Year Share this story Welcome to Let’s start with Suns fan respondents According to the most recent SB Nation Reacts survey, most Suns fans would still rather face the Grizzlies than any other non-Lakers team in the first round. And I’m still not sure I agree with that sentiment. Seems like it’s going to be either the Blazers or (more likely) Lakers who get the 7th seed and will have to fend off th...

NBA Reacts: Year-End Award Edition! Share this story to join Reacts. This may or may not surprise you, dear reader, but the Memphis Grizzlies are flying under the national radar yet again. As the latest results of our SB Nation Reacts polls come out, two that should be more relevant to Memphis - who should be named Coach of the Year and Most Improved Player - are actually apparently not relevant at all. For in both categories, no Grizzlies are in the top-4. And in both categories, the Memphis ...