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Open Thread: Draymond comes in 3rd for Defensive Player of the Year

Death by snub snub

Eric Apricot
Jun 10, 2021
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Open Thread: Draymond comes in 3rd for Defensive Player of the Year

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The Great Migration

Glad to see many of you made it over here. We’ll be switching the full-time url to DubNationHQ.com in a week and LetsGoWarriors.com will stop working.

If things get wobbly with the internet and our URL, you can always reach the site by clicking on the header of the emails we send (and in a pinch, use the top-secret URL dubnation.substack.com).

Snub of Yesterday

Yesterday, Stephen Curry came in third in the MVP voting (second by number of 1st space votes). We discussed the matter here:

  • MVP Roundtable: Curry comes in third, Jokic becomes lowest pick to ever win

Snub of Today

Late Wednesday night, it was announced that Draymond Green came in 3rd in the Defensive Player of the Year voting.

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A couple of days ago, Duby laid out this excellent overview of Draymond’s game:

  • '21 Season Review: Draymond Green can do almost anything

which also attracted some excellent comments (go read them).

Snub of Tomorrow?

They have announced these awards finalists and winners so far:

NBA Coach of the Year

Quin Snyder, Utah Jazz
Tom Thibodeau, New York Knicks (winner)
Monty Williams, Phoenix Suns

Kia NBA Most Valuable Player

Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers
Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets (winner)

Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year

Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz (winner)
Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
Ben Simmons, Philadelphia 76ers

Leaving only these finalists:

Kia NBA Most Improved Player

Jerami Grant, Detroit Pistons
Michael Porter Jr., Denver Nuggets
Julius Randle, New York Knicks

Kia NBA Rookie of the Year

LaMelo Ball, Charlotte Hornets
Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves
Tyrese Haliburton, Sacramento Kings

Kia NBA Sixth Man

Jordan Clarkson, Utah Jazz
Joe Ingles, Utah Jazz
Derrick Rose, New York Knicks

So there are no Warriors left to snub.

Open Thread

This is today’s open thread (unless some serious news breaks out). Talk about anything you like…


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GlueAndBold
Jun 12, 2021

Have we discussed JTA’s possible award?

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Backpack23
Jun 11, 2021

Time for me to read further than pick 14 in the mock drafts. I don’t recognise any of these names...

Wes Goldberg

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The Warriors tomorrow will hold predraft workouts with Derrick Alston Jr. (Boise State), JaQuori McLaughlin (Oregon State/UC Santa Barbara), EJ Onu (Shawnee State), Jordan Schakel (San Diego State), Jericho Sims (Texas) and McKinley Wright IV (Colorado).

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