NBA 2019-20 Season Predictions

[cima]

Most Valuable Player:
Defensive Player of the Year:
Sixth Man of the Year:
Most Improved Player:
Rookie of the Year:
Coach of the Year:


East Champion:
West Champion:


NBA Champion:
Finals MVP:




My predictions:

Most Valuable Player: LeBron James
Defensive Player of the Year: Giannis
Sixth Man of the Year: Rudy Gay
Most Improved Player: Terry Rozier
Rookie of the Year: Ja Morant
Coach of the Year: Frank Vogel


East Champion: Philadelphia 76ers
West Champion: LA Lakers


NBA Champion: LA Lakers
Finals MVP: LeBron James

[Mrcabone]

MVP: Anthony Davis

DPY: Rudy Gobert

SMOY: Lou Williams

MIP: Lonzo Ball

ROY: Zion

COY: Doc Rivers


EC: Boston Celtics
WC: LA Clippers

FC: LA Clippers
FMVP: Kawhi Leonard

[3304Life]

MVP: Karl Anthony Towns
DPOY: Kawhi Leonard
6MOY: Jordan Clarkson
MIP: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
ROY: Zion Williamson
Coach of the Year: Quin Snyder

East: Philadelphia
West: Lakers

Champions: Lakers
Finals MVP: LeBron James

[aloncho11]

Most Valuable Player: Giannis
Defensive Player of the Year: Kawhi Leonard
Sixth Man of the Year: Tim Hardaway
Most Improved Player: David Nwaba
Rookie of the Year: RJ Barrett
Coach of the Year: Kenny Atkinson


East Champion: Milwaukee Bucks
West Champion: Los Angeles Clippers


NBA Champion: Los Angeles Clippers
Finals MVP: Kawhi Leonard

[jeremym480]

Most Valuable Player: Giannis
Defensive Player of the Year: Rudy Gobert
Sixth Man of the Year: J.J. Redick
Most Improved Player: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Rookie of the Year: Zion
Coach of the Year: Mike Budenholzer

East Champion: Bucks
West Champion: Clippers

NBA Champion: Clippers
Finals MVP: Kawhi

[ojandpizza]

Too many of the top tier teams have had far too many changes and question marks for me to feel even remotely comfortable with making team predictions without seeing how well everyone's new pieces mesh... Aside From Milwaukee and Denver, the cores of every other top-tier teams is a TBD status..

Defensive Player of the Year: is hard.. Kawhi and the Clipps will be in the spotlight all year, but he would have to be a SUBSTANTIALLY better defender than what he regressed to last season to get DPOY.. I was surprised he even made the 2nd team last season, especially after missing over a 4th of the season for rest.. At the same time I'm not sure they will continue to vote Gobert year after year with how they seemingly get tired of sustained excellence and always vote for the new "shiny object".. I think I might go with Myles Turner. The fact that he didn't even make 2nd team last year was a complete joke, if not for Gobert I think he could have been DPOY last year and I'm not sure he even received one first place vote. Giannis and Joel will obviously be in the running again.

Most Improved I think it will be Ben Simmons.. Not sure that he will actually win the award because he's already a good player, and they typically vote more so on breakout seasons, but I think he makes the hardest jump of them all this year and becomes a legit super-star level player.

Rookie All depends on Zion's health, it is his to win.

6th Man Lou Williams or Kuzma... Even if someone else makes a better case those two will be in the spotlight far too much and voters love scoring.. Dinwiddie, Harrell, and Sabonis were all better than Lou last year, but "20 points", "he's a bucket" that gets the votes.

Coach of the Year Snyder, Brett Brown, Mike Malone, Atkinson.. But again knowing how the voters work Doc or Vogel..

MVP This is tough, like the teams.. Voters care far too much about record, I'd say my best guess is Giannis repeats.

[BleacherBum2310]

Most Valuable Player: Steph
Defensive Player of the Year: Rudy Gobert
Sixth Man of the Year: Lou
Most Improved Player: Tatum
Rookie of the Year: Zion
Coach of the Year: Brown only because I think they will win a ton of games

East Champion: Sixers
West Champion: Clippers

NBA Champion: Clippers
Finals MVP: Kawhi

[cima]

Curious if anyone is gonna pick a non-LA team to represent the WC this year