Nylon Calculus: Presenting the 2016-17 NBA Anti-Awards

ilias · Apr 19, 2017

http://fansided.com/2017/04/19/nba-anti-awards-2016-17/

Some good stuff in there. Awards for current and past Rockets include:

The Shawn Bradley Award
This award goes to the player 6-foot-10 or taller who has had the highest percentage of his own shot attempts blocked (minimum 500 minutes played).

This season, we had the opportunity to witness history, as an incredible player continued a remarkable run. Omer Asik has won this award in four of the last six seasons, including the last three in a row. When the 2016-17 season wrapped his numbers were once again near the top of the league — a cool 20 percent of his shots were blocked this year. Unfortunately, Asik was starved for minutes and at 482, he did not qualify to win this award.

Ed Davis had 14.8 percent of his shots blocked, a paltry sum compared to Asik, but he had the benefit of more floor time and thus wins the award. Congratulations to Mr. Davis. As to Asik, this may be the end of an era. His defensive play has declined and we may never again see him on the floor for more than 500 minutes in a season. If that’s the case, it’s been an honor to watch him get blocked over, and over, and over again.
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The Jason Kidd Award
This award goes to the player with the most turnovers in a single game. Jason Kidd had a Hall of Fame career with many terrific positive statistical contributions. He’s also had three career games with more than 12 turnovers.

James Harden and Russell Westbrook spent most of the season battling for the MVP Award. While it seems likely that Westbrook takes that honor, Harden doesn’t have to finish the season empty-handed. On Nov. 23 against the Toronto Raptors, Harden turned the ball over 12 times — an NBA season-high. Just for good measure, he also had a game of 11 turnovers on Jan. 23. In fact, Harden had five games with double-digit turnovers this season, an impressive feat. Westbrook also had five such games but was never able to get over the hump of 11. Just one more aspect of the history-making duel between these legendary players.
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Ryan Anderson narrowly missed the Matt Bullard award.

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