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NEW YORK -- The NBA today announced the finalists for six awards that honor top performers from the 2017-18 regular season: Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, Kia NBA Rookie of the Year, Kia NBA Sixth Man Award, Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Kia NBA Most Improved Player and NBA Coach of the Year.
The winners of these awards will be revealed at the 2018 NBA Awards presented by Kia on Monday, June 25 at 9 p.m. ET on TNT. The second annual NBA Awards will take place at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
The finalists for the six annual awards, based on voting results from a global panel of sportswriters and broadcasters, are below:
Most Improved Player - Victor Oladipo Most Valuable Player - Lebron James Rookie of the Year - Ben Simmons Sixth Man of the Year - Lou Williams Defensive Players of the Year - Rudy Gobert Coach of the Year - Brad Stevens
Most Improved Player - Victor Oladipo
Most Valuable Player - James Harden (if it included the playoffs it would have to be Lebron but everyone had to have votes in before then)
Rookie of the Year - Ben Simmons
Sixth Man of the Year - Lou Williams
Defensive Players of the Year - Joel Embiid
Coach of the Year - Brad Stevens (I may have said Dwane Casey but then they fired him! Wouldn't it be embarassing for him to then get COTY?)
Most Improved Player - Victor Oladipo
Most Valuable Player - James Harden
Rookie of the Year - Ben Simmons AND Donovan Mitchell - Co-Winners
Sixth Man of the Year - Lou Williams
Defensive Players of the Year - Rudy Gobert
Coach of the Year - Brad Stevens
Most Improved Player - Victor Oladipo
Most Valuable Player - James Harden
Rookie of the Year - Ben Simmons
Sixth Man of the Year - Lou Williams
Defensive Players of the Year - Rudy Gobert
Coach of the Year - Brad Stevens
Most Improved Player - Oladipo
Most Valuable Player - Harden
Rookie of the Year - Simmons
Sixth Man of the Year - Williams
Defensive Player of the Year - Gobert
Coach of the Year - Casey
Most Improved Player - Victor Oladipo Most Valuable Player - james harden Rookie of the Year - Ben Simmons (would love to see co. with mitchell ) Sixth Man of the Year - eric gordon Defensive Players of the Year - Rudy Gobert Coach of the Year - Brad Stevens
Most Improved Player - Victor Oladipo Most Valuable Player - James Harden Rookie of the Year - Ben Simmons Sixth Man of the Year - Lou Williams Defensive Players of the Year - Rudy Gobert Coach of the Year - Dwane Casey