Like every Monday evening, the NBA unveils its awards for the best players of the past week. Today, we find a great regular named Giannis Antetokounmpo, but also a surprise with the pivot of the Suns Deandre Ayton.
Because yes, it’s a big first for Dede since his arrival in the NBA four and a half years ago. The pivot of the Suns, who was pulling the face a few weeks ago following his contract stories, is currently on a big dynamic allowing Phoenix to chain the wins despite the absences of Chris Paul, Cam Johnson and of course Jae Crowder . Three matches, stats of 23.7 points, 16 rebounds and 1.3 blocks with more than 67% success in shooting and 81% in free throws, as much to say that Ayton weighed well to help the Cactus beat the Lakers, the Pistons and the Jazz. So if Phoenix is leading the Western Conference today, somewhere it’s also thanks to number 1 in the 2018 Draft.
In the Eastern Conference, once again it is Giannis who wins the day, he who had already been rewarded at the end of October. Since the history of the ladder in philadelphiathe Greek Freak turns at 35.3 points, 9.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists on 61 percent shooting. Well yeah, don’t bother him too much. The collateral victims of this XXL production? Portland, Cleveland and Dallas. Only the Bulls managed to resist Hurricane Giannis last week, and yet we cannot say that the latter did not give everything (36 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists but 8 turnovers). In short Antetokounmpo continues his campaign caliber MVP and something tells us that we will still talk about him many times on Monday evening.
Among the nominees who did not deserve, we have Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Nikola Jokic and Ja Morant in the West, as well as several duos in the East (Bam Adebayo – Caleb Martin, Jaylen Brown – Jayson Tatum, Tobias Harris – Shake Milton, Ben Mathurin – Myles Turner) alongside Donovan Mitchell.
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Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton and Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 6 of the 2022-23 season (Nov. 21-27). pic.twitter.com/CSNj7pudIi
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) November 28, 2022