{"id":216409,"date":"2021-05-21T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=216409"},"modified":"2021-05-21T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:04:14","slug":"finalists-announced-for-2020-21-nba-awards-jokic-embiid-curry-named-as-mvp-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/finalists-announced-for-2020-21-nba-awards-jokic-embiid-curry-named-as-mvp-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists announced for 2020-21 NBA awards: Jokic, Embiid, Curry named as MVP finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA today announced the finalists for six awards that honor top performers for the 2020-21 regular season: NBA Coach of the Year, Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Kia NBA Most Improved Player, Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, Kia NBA Rookie of the Year and Kia NBA Sixth Man.<\/p>\n

The three finalists for each annual award, based on voting results from a global panel of sportswriters and broadcasters, are listed in alphabetical order below:<\/p>\n

Kia NBA Most Valuable Player<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
\nJoel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers
\nNikola Joki\u0107, Denver Nuggets<\/p>\n


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\nKia NBA Rookie of the Year<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball, Charlotte Hornets
\nAnthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves
\nTyrese Haliburton, Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n


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\nKia NBA Defensive Player of the Year<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
\nDraymond Green, Golden State Warriors
\nBen Simmons, Philadelphia 76ers<\/p>\n


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\nKia NBA Most Improved Player<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jerami Grant, Detroit Pistons
\nMichael Porter Jr., Denver Nuggets
\nJulius Randle, New York Knicks<\/p>\n


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\nKia NBA Sixth Man<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jordan Clarkson, Utah Jazz
\nJoe Ingles, Utah Jazz
\nDerrick Rose, New York Knicks<\/p>\n


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\nNBA Coach of the Year<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quin Snyder, Utah Jazz
\nTom Thibodeau, New York Knicks
\nMonty Williams, Phoenix Suns<\/p>\n

TNT will announce the winner of each award during its coverage of the 2021 NBA Playoffs.\u00a0 Each voter\u2019s complete ballot for each award will be posted at pr.nba.com after the announcement of all end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The league announces the finalists for six awards that honor top performers for the 2020-21 regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":216392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-216409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/MVP-Finalists-Awards-Template16x9-1568x882-1.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216409"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=216409"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=216409"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=216409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}