2023-04-25 01:49:10
Tonight, the NBA revealed the final results of its 2022-23 Progression Race. Against some expectations but not all of them anyway, Lauri Markkanen leaves with the golden statuette.
“We are entitled to imagine that the blond had a real click this summer at EuroBasket and that his future in Utah looks bright”.
Without throwing flowers on a wonderful editorial staff who only did their analytical work, our words – at the end of EuroBasket 2022 – were not the worst chosen. This season, Lauri Markkanen has gone from being a “quick holder” to that of All-Star capable of sexifying Salt Lake City. A remarkable feat. Statistically, the Finn was shooting at 15 points at 45%, 6 rebounds and 1 assist for the 2021-22 financial year. We found him this season almost 26 points at 50% shooting, 9 rebounds and 2 assists. This is at least three classes of difference between position 4 not very comfortable in a roster, useful in Cleveland but still not installed in a sustainable Process, to that of player essential to the success of a franchise over the next few years . Thus, to the question “Will Lauri Markkanen transpose his crazy EuroBasket 2022 into the NBA? »this Progression of the Year 2022-23 award provides a clear and definitive answer.
A look at the details of the votes for the MIP trophy, with a race that we would have expected tighter between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Lauri Markkanen. The Thunder leader was already very strong last season. Not yet at the level of MVP candidate, but already very strong. This is probably the reason why he obtained “only” 29 of the 100 votes from the voting journalists. But he’s a player in the face marketing, inevitable All-Star (close to being a starter in the Western selection), and which unleashes passions more than the bleak picture of a European buried in Salt Lake City. That popularity might have made Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Progression of the Year 2022-23, it just didn’t work. We note the 3rd place of Jalen Brunson, evident to 38 journalists. Four voters even saw the New York leader win the trophy! A hair “clubism” but it holds. Transferred “lately”, Mikal Bridges still wins a vote for 1st place, a vote for second, and 25 for the last step of the podium. Not impossible that the new franchise player of the Nets is even better ranked at the end of next season.
Details of the votes for the Progression of the Year trophy. pic.twitter.com/KxjFxPb2TX
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) April 24, 2023
Zou, the name of the new MIP is known: Lauri Markkanen joins the beautiful family of end-of-season winners. The career of the 25-year-old strong winger then took an unexpected turn, for our pleasure, that of Jazz fans, and the future of the Salt Lake City franchise, left in his hands and those of Walker Kessler.
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