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NBA year-end honors: Where do Jazz players and coach Quin Snyder rank heading down the homestretch?
Snyder, Rudy Gobert, Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles are all in the mix, while Donovan Mitchell could make his first All-NBA team
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The Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles (2) Rudy Gobert (27) and Jordan Clarkson (00) react to a nice play during game against the New York Knicks at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. All three players Gobert as the Defensive Player of Year and Clarkson and Ingles as Sixth Man of the Year candidates are in the mix for NBA year-end honors.
OffRtg = Points scored per 100 possessions
Using the same math on the other end of the floor (points allowed per 100 possessions vs. the league average), the Los Angeles Lakers (106.5, -5.1 vs. the league average) rank as just the 38th best defense of the last 25 seasons, with No. 1 being the 2003-04 San Antonio Spurs (93.1, -8.3). So the the best offense and best defense of the last 25 seasons came in the same year. (The Mavs won three of the four head-to-head meetings, but the Spurs lasted longer in the playoffs.)
By comparing points scored and allowed per 100 possessions vs. the league average, the Oklahoma City Thunder (103.1 scored, -8.5) rank as the seventh worst offense and the Sacramento Kings (117.2 allowed, +5.6) rank as the 30th worst defense of the last 25 seasons.
Many sports leagues at several levels will hand out a Most Improved Player award every season â the hardware typically goes to someone who had a subpar or injury-plagued year prior to putting together a big season.
Economically speaking, Kentucky would be in the running for Most Improved Player among all 50 states based on the latest Fitch Ratings.
Fitch is considered one of the âBig Threeââcredit rating agencies, along with Moodyâs and Standard & Poorâs.
Fitch, which previously rated Kentuckyâs economic outlook as negative, recently shifted the label to âstable.â
Fitch noted Kentuckyâs âsolid ability to control revenues and expenditures to maintain fiscal balanceââand its âdeclining reliance on one-time measures.â
In an unusual NBA season, the Knicks have been the biggest surprise The New York Knicks are 37-28 and the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference. Nobody saw this coming.
May 5, 2021
The NBA is famously predictable. We usually know who’s good and who’s bad before the ball is tipped. But in this volatile season (due to the pandemic, the truncated schedule, and a rash of injuries) no one could have predicted the rise of the New York Knicks.
The Knicks (37-28), the longest longshot to make the postseason, are the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference. They went 11-4 last month with the NBA’s top net rating for April. With seven games left in the regular season, they’re likely playoff-bound for the first time in eight years. New York entered this 72-game slate with the lowest over/under win total (21.5). Their preseason odds to win it all were +50000, tied for worst along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons.
Carlo Kemp Biography
Carlo Kemp saw action in 46 games with 29 starts for Michigan, registering 81 tackles (31 solo), 10 tackles for a loss, 4.5 sacks and a fumble recovery. He was a two-time team captain (2019-20), named third-team All-Big Ten (2019), named the team s Most Improved Player on defense (2018) and was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2017-20). Kemp set career highs in 2019 in tackles (40), solo tackles (15) and tackles for a loss (4.5).
Carlo Kemp saw action in 46 games with 29 starts for Michigan, registering 81 tackles (31 solo), 10 tackles for a loss, 4.5 sacks and a fumble recovery. He was a two-time team captain (2019-20), named third-team All-Big Ten (2019), named the team s Most Improved Player on defense (2018) and was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2017-20). Kemp set career highs in 2019 in tackles (40), solo tackles (15) and tackles for a loss (4.5).