NBA.com has presented their projected picks for individual end-of-season awards - including MVP, Sixth-man-of-the-Year and Coach of the year. Currently the best team in the League, the Boston Celtics, only saw one vote out of 35 cast for a member of The Green. Five writers cast their votes for their choices on seven (7) categories, and Steve Aschburner picked the Celtics Jayson Tatum as the potential most Valuable Player. No other member of the Celtics was mentioned. Aschburner went with Tatum-for-MVP due to him being the best player on the best team . Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid (twice)and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander also received MVP vote s, but Embiid is not on track as of the present to play the 65 games necessary to earn the prize. The NBA.com writers mentioned four different players for 6th-Man-of-the-Year - Tim Hardaway, Jr. getting the nod with two votes . But how about Boston's Al Horford? A requirement is that a player needs to come of the bench in more games than he s...
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