2014-2015 NBA Award and Winner Predictions

[KirbyPls]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction:

Rookie of Year Prediction:

Defensive Player of Year prediction:

Most Improved Player prediction:

East Champs:

West Champs:

Champs:

What say you ISH?

[KirbyPls]

MVP: 1. KD 2. LBJ 3. Blake
DPOY: Leonard
ROTY: Parker

WC Champs: OKC

EC Champs: CHI

Champs: OKC... (FMVP: KD perhaps Westbrook)

Unfortunately.

[Bobcats2013]

MVP: Curry
DPOY: Marc Gasol
ROTY: Parker(only because Rose won't let McBuckets touch the ball)

EC: Bulls

WC: Warriors

Champs: Warriors

[Milbuck]

MVP: Blake Griffin...he put up 26/9/4/1/1 on 59% TS the 2nd half of the season, and the Clippers went 30-11 in that span (60 win pace). And 24/10/4/1/1 on 58% TS on a 57 win team over the whole season. And that was the first season of him really having a decent jumper, and the first year with Doc's coaching...I have no doubt he'll improve even more, and the Clippers will be better. 25/11/4/1/1 and 60 wins would give him the MVP imo.

DPOY: Dwight Howard. Think this is the year Dwight returns to Orlando level. Showed up big time in the playoffs but still got bounced in the first round, he should be motivated to show people he's still elite.

ROTY: Jabari Parker, and it won't be remotely close.
A source inside the Bucks said that Parker already has dropped 11 pounds since this Summer League and is in the best shape of his life (before the draft, conditioning was one of the major concerns about Parker). He's more explosive than we've seen him the last few years. The same source said that Parker has been absolutely dominant in informal scrimmages the Bucks have staged this summer in Milwaukee. He's wowing people there.http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11585673/rookies-or-underperform-#nbarank-rating-projection-nba?ex_cid=InsiderTwitter_fordrookiesNBARank

EC Champs: Chicago

WC Champs: OKC

Champs: OKC

[Shade8780]

MVP: Kevin Durant.
DPOY: Anthony Davis. I think he'll dominate next season.
ROTY: Jabari Parker.

EC Champions: Cleveland Cavaliers.

WC Champions: Oklahoma City Thunder

NBA Champions: Oklahoma City Thunder.

[TheReal Kendall]

MVP: Melo
DPOY: Noah
ROTY: Jabari

EC Champs: Bulls

WC Champs: Spurs

Champs: Spurs

[JohnMax]

MVP: CP3
DPOY: Deandre
ROTY: Wiggins

EC Champs: Cavs

WC Champs: Clippers

Champs: Clippers (CP3 Finals MVP)

[Combat Wombat]

NBA MVP prediction: KD

Rookie of Year Prediction: Randle (because I'm biased)

Defensive Player of Year prediction: D12

Most Improved Player prediction: Jordan Hill

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: OKC

Champs: OKC

[Demitri98]

NBA MVP prediction: Kevin Durant

Rookie of Year Prediction: Andrew Wiggins

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Anthony Davis

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Davis

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: Thunder

Champs: Thunder in 7; Durant FMVP

[Kidbasketball20]

NBA MVP prediction: LBJ
2nd is Durant

Rookie of Year Prediction: Randle!!! Stud.

Defensive Player of Year prediction: A big man.

Most Improved Player prediction: Jeremy Lin.

East Champs: Heatles or Bulls

West Champs: Spurs

Champs: SPURSSSS

[livingby3's]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction: James. Lots of storylines to surround the award with.

Rookie of Year Prediction: Wiggins

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Noah

Most Improved Player prediction: Markieff Morris. With Frye gone and the Suns' thin frontcourt. He will be playing extensive minutes at the 4, and I expect him to step up his game with improved role

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: Thunder

Champs: Thunder

[Smook A.]

NBA MVP prediction: Kevin Durant - I don't see why KD can't have another MVP type season.

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker - This guy looks like the most NBA-ready player out of the draft. Wiggins will be good, but he's still pretty raw.

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Anthony Davis

Most Improved Player prediction: Jonas Valanciunas

East Champs: Cleveland Cavaliers

West Champs: OKC Thunder

Champs: OKC Thunder

[wally_world]

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron James - I think Clippers would get 1 seed in the West, Cavs in the East. But LeBron will get MVP for his impact despite having a subpar statistical season (26/7/7 on 56/39/80)

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker - Would've been Randle but Lakers just keep stacking up that frontline.

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Serge Ibaka - No clear cut best defender in the L, but anchoring OKC's defense and his impressive defensive numbers will get Ibaka his 1st DPOY.

Most Improved Player prediction: Markieff Morris (stolen answer) - Always the hardest award to predict, but Kieff has a good shot. I think Giannis has a shot too seeing Kidd likes his game.

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: OKC

Champs: OKC

[poido123]

ROTY: Doug mcdermott

DPOY: Anthony Davis

Most Improved player: Anthony Bennett

ECF Winner: Bulls

WCF Winner: OKC

Championship Winner: Bulls

MVP: Kevin Durant

[Genaro]

NBA MVP prediction: KD

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Marc Gasol

[ArbitraryWater]

2014-2015 NBA Award and Winner Predictions

MVP: LeBron James (Will turn a lottery Team with 1 other big Addition into 55-60 wins and the 1st or 2nd seed while doing 27/7/7 on 55% with ATG defense)

Scoring Champion: Kevin Durant (Same Story, LeBron won't try)

Defensive Player of the Year: Dwight Howard/Anthony Davis/DeAndre Jordan/Serge Ibaka/Joakim Noah/LeBron James

Rookie of the Year: Jabari Parker


East Champions: Cleveland Cavaliers

West Champions: San Antonio Spurs

NBA World Champions: Cleveland Cavaliers

[dunksby]

NBA MVP prediction: Kevin Durant

Rookie of Year Prediction: Andrew Wiggins

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Andre Drummond

Most Improved Player prediction: Reggie Jackson

East Champs: CLE

West Champs: OKC

Champs:
OKC

[lilteapot]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction: Lebron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Lebron James

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Lebron James

Most Improved Player prediction: Lebron James

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: Cavs

Champs: Lebron James

[MP.Trey]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Bold prediction of Avery Bradley

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Bennett

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: Clippers

Champs: Cavs

What say you ISH?
I'm ready to be wrong on most of these though.

[G0ATbe]

MVP: Kevin Durant

Rookie of the year: Jabari Parker

Scoring Champ: Godbe Bryant

DPOY: Godbe Bryant

MIP: Kyrie Irving

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: Lakers

NBA champs: Lakers

[Smoke117]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions. What say you ISH?

NBA MVP prediction: Lebron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Lebron James

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Bennet

East Champs: Chicago Bulls

West Champs: Los Angeles Clippers

Champs: Los Angeles Clippers

I think Lebron will really motivated defensively and will be the first player since Olajuwon in 94 to win MVP and DPOY in the same season.

[Denitron]

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron

Rookie of Year Prediction: Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Noah

Most Improved Player prediction: Bennett

East Champs: Bulls

West Champs: Clippers

Champs: Clippers

[chips93]

NBA MVP prediction: kevin durant

Rookie of Year Prediction: jabari parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: joakim noah

Most Improved Player prediction: anthony davis (i was expecting this to be the consensus answer)

East Champs: cavs

West Champs: spurs

Champs: spurs

[Timmy D for MVP]

NBA MVP- Kevin Durant

NBA DPOY- Joakim Noah

NBA ROY- Jabbari Parker

East Champs- Bulls

West Champs- Thunder

NBA Champs- Thunder.

This makes 5 years I've picked OKC to win it and 4 years they've made me a liar. If they make it a cool 5 and SAS gets in I'll be happy, but I just won't get it if they never get it done.

[I<3NBA]

NBA MVP prediction: Lebron (the Cavs will have a dramatic turn about. that's all the voters need to vote for Lebron)

Rookie of Year Prediction: Wiggins

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Anthony Davis

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Davis

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: OKC

Champs: Cavs

[Jlamb47]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction: Kevin Durant

Rookie of Year Prediction: Julius Randle

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Joakim Noah/Anthony Davis

Most Improved Player prediction: ??

East Champs:Bulls

West Champs:OKC

Champs: OKC

What say you ISH?
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[JebronLames]

NBA MVP prediction: Lebron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: LeGoat

Most Improved Player prediction: The King

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: Spurs

Champs: Cavs

Finals MVP: The chosen one

[Real14]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari

East Champs: KNICKS

West Champs: SPURS

[RoundMoundOfReb]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Andrew Wiggins

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Dwight Howard

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Bennett

East Champs: Cleveland

West Champs: Oklahoma City Thunder

Champs: Oklahoma City Thunder

[ShackEelOKneel]

East Champs: KNICKS



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[oti]

NBA MVP prediction: Kevin Durant

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Joakim Noah

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Davis

East Champs: Bulls/Heat

West Champs: OKC

Champs: OKC

[bdreason]

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Jabari Parker

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Serge Ibaka

Most Improved Player prediction: Trey Burke

East Champs: Cleveland Cavs

West Champs: OKC Thunder (regular season)

Champs: Golden State Warriors (homer pick)

[KobesFinger]

MVP: Durant again

Scoring champion: Durant again

DPOY: Anthony Davis

ROY: Jabari Parker

6MOY: Deng/Granger who ever doesn't start out of those two

MIP: Jordan Hill :pimp:

WC Champions: Thunder

EC Champions: Bulls/Cavs, leaning towards Bulls

Champion: Thunder

All NBA: G-(1)Paul (2)Westbrok (3)Trillard G-(1)Harden (2)Kobe (3)Rose F-(1)Durant (2)Griffin (3)Davis F-(1)James (2)Aldridge (3)Bosh C-(1)Howard (2)Cousins (3)Noah

All D: G-(1)T. Allen (2)Afflalo G-(1)Butler (2)Bledsoe (2) F-(1)Leonard (2)Iguodala F-(1)Davis (2)Ibaka C-(1)Noah (2)Howard

All Rookie: G-(1)Smart (2)Payton G-(1)LaVine (2)Exum F-(1)Parker (2)Wiggins F-(1)Randle (2) Noel C-(1)Embiid (2)Giannis' brother

[nzamcdza]

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron James

Rookie of Year Prediction: Nik Stakuas

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Joakim Noah

Most Improved Player prediction: Anthony Davis

East Champs: Cavs

West Champs: OKC

Champs: OKC

[Dave3]

NBA MVP prediction: Little bit tough here with Durant going down, so I'm gonna try and get bold and say Derrick Rose. He's back from injury and the Bulls should have a very good season with a Gasol/Noah frontcourt. Their record will be very good and he'll get a lot of credit as well as have a great comeback story.

Rookie of Year Prediction: Wiggins - for all the talk about Parker being the most NBA ready, he hasn't really shown anything to separate himself from Wiggins, and I think Wiggins' body is built more for an 82 game NBA season, as well as playing with Rubio will give him more opportunity to get some easy baskets and make his stats look a bit better.

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Anthony Davis - essentially the modern day Kevin Garnett.

Most Improved Player prediction: This one's a bit hard because they usually come out of nowhere. I'm gonna randomly guess Jeremy Lamb just because someone's gotta fill in the Durant void to start the season and I'm thinking if he puts on a good show, combined with the fact that Sefalosha is also gone, that could earn him a permanent role and starting spot on the Thunder.

East Champs: Cavs - seems like everyone's picking either them or the Bulls, but for me it's still hard to bet against LeBron especially with a Love/Kyrie supporting cast.

West Champs: OKC - every year I think the Spurs are done by now, and the last couple of years I've been way off, but I think this might be OKC's year. They'll be hungry after the Spurs dropped them last year and prepare well for them.

Champs: Cavs I guess. It's a weird prediction to make this early, but I guess that would be my best guess.

[Phenith]

2014-2015 NBA Award-Winner Predictions

NBA MVP prediction: LeBron James - Might be the last year he wins it and will have at least Davis and CP3 amongst others chasing him, it will be a tight win.

Rookie of Year Prediction: Wiggins - Parker will be right there with him, this one will be close and team standing could play a roll. There is a few others who could surprise, but not for the award barring injury.

Defensive Player of Year prediction: Anthony Davis - Maybe a controversial pick, but sticking with my earlier prediction that he wills the Pelicans into the play-offs this year. His defence will become elite and be recognized.

Most Improved Player prediction: Jonas Valanciunas - Maybe a homer pick, but I'm expecting this is the year Jonas steps up his overall game and will show enough overall improvement to justify being in the mix with other potentials like Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (if he can gain confidence in that nice looking new jumper he's been showing) and Larry Sanders (hard not to improve off that disaster season when we all know he can ball).

East Champs: Cavs - Hard to go against the grain here when your prime competition is being run by a guy that has barely played in 3 years, there is only 2 other guys on this team from his MVP year. I don't foresee any surprises in the east baring a breakdown or major injury in Cleavland.

West Champs: LA Clippers - The west is crazy tough, but I think getting the ugly Sterling situation out of the way and have a new guy who is bringing in a GREAT business culture. The pieces are in place and I think they will break through this year.

Champs: LA Clippers - Dealing a huge blow to LeBron and the Cavs, the Clipps knock off the Cavs in a epic battle in which both teams get great team efforts every game but Blake Griffin plays hero too many times and the Cavs just can't match.

FMVP: Blake Griffin - Takes his game to another level and plays with heroic intensity and is the obvious choice despite great overall team play.

[J Shuttlesworth]

MVP: Curry
DPOY: Marc Gasol
ROTY: Parker(only because Rose won't let McBuckets touch the ball)

EC: Bulls

WC: Warriors

Champs: Warriors
Only person in the whole thread to guess curry.