He’s eligible for the 47-49 mil Max contract but he won’t get it because he laid an egg in the playoffs. Easily lost at least $10 mil

I hope this helps his confidence and belief in himself, which I think was shaken big time during the playoffs. It’s easy to forget that this is a 22 yr old kid who was thrust into a position he likely didn’t expect to be in—that of a second option on offense for a number one seed. But if you make it this far, you’ve overcome plenty of adversity. I hope JD goes back to work this summer, shuts out the noise, and comes back even better than he was this past regular season while learning from his playoff failures.

I really don’t understand how teams just let him dunk 5x a game in the regular season.

When you convert his stats from Canadian to American units it’s not as impressive

Deni Avdija got more votes than Scottie im sick man

Scottie Barnes unironically would have made second team if he played in America lmao

The Toronto effect

Rookie year was the only other time he didnt make it

He didn’t qualify, probably would have gotten it if he did

It’s interesting because I understand that it’s a regular season award, but for a single year, I can name several players who made an all NBA team that I’d prefer to have lebron over.

Ik people will say name them so I will.

Mitchell,, KD, Duren, Murray, Chet, Johnson. I don’t see any of them as better than lebron.

First since his rookie season

To getting shipped tf out of Denver

Crazy to think he hadn’t been an all star, is that real? He’s been a demon especially in some of those post season runs. How can the #2 guy in a championship team miss out for so long

Then he goes and makes a joke of it all in the playoffs

Just to finally lose his playoff voodoo smh

Long time coming tbh

The guy couldn’t make first team defense or even all nba crazy

Honestly? Average more points

Move to America.

Leave Canada I guess

Average 20+ points or be on one of the best teams in the league

LeCurtaincall

What a bum. I knew he’d be a bust.

Never see anything like it again 

21 years is fucking crazy lol so much has changed since then

I can’t believe an NBA player popularized it, it sounds so natural for me, can’t believe it wasn’t a thing before.

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Or maybe the tide has turned by then and no more player Jalens but half the coaches are Jalens.

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Well neither did Cade or Luka, but the rules aren’t really strict for some

It’s whatever. Had a feeling he wasn’t going to get All-NBA after the all-defense teams. He’s 100% going to use this as motivation though

Jalen Johnson over Scottie, idk chief

He’ll be getting MVP votes next year. Voters are always a year late in recognizing players who improve unexpectedly.

it was expected with Cade and Luka eligible tbh.

Hopefully next year progress is made.

Duren has worse stats than KAT and similar defense yet he got in over him. That 1 seed bias is real

It’s not that surprising. He had a chance if some of the injured guys dropped off but he didn’t really blow up until post All Star Weekend.

Still needs 4 more to tie. Elgin and west both have 10.

Could happen but with injuries. Wemby,Flagg, etc might be hard

Nah he’ll get an MVP once he gets a great team around him. Get him a team that is built perfectly for his skill set and that can hide his flaws like other stars and it’ll happen.

2 people left him off their ballots entirely. Fascinated to see if it was some kind of protest or if they just forgot he was made eligible.

I was surprised! He definitely deserved it, I just didn’t think he’d make first team.

Why was he allowed to win awards with 64 games?

Definitely think KD on 2nd team is a little generous

That Rockets roster was genuinely garbage all around and he was their clear best player on the 5th seed in the West, I think it’s understandable especially when voters (shouldn’t have known at least) didn’t know whether Sixers would even be in the playoffs in the east

no, 78 games, near 50-40-90 in one of the worst offenses ive ever seen, over brunson i understand (for reg season)

absolutely not lmao. 50 wins with 78 games played with one of the greatest shooting seasons ever with an injury riddled roster that was offensively limited at 37 years old. he earned that.

yeah the only thing tha stands out is duren because of the post season performance but he was big on the best team in the east

4 Jalens or equivalents is crazy

Jalen Johnson and Jamal Murray over Scottie Barnes looks pretty controversial to me…

I have no issue with KAT not being on the all-NBA but KATs emergence in the playoffs combined with durens drop make this hilarious

Based on regular season though, he deserves it

Team Jalen vs. the World at next years all star weekend.

If you don’t know who a player would replace on a reward, then they don’t deserve that award

Barnes ¹⁸⁄₇.⁵⁄₆ on 50/30/80 shooting and 2.6 TO’s. Jalen Johnson 22.5/10/8 on 49/35/79 shooting and 3.4 TO’s and 13 Triple doubles. Barnes was definitely better on D but JJ fared pretty well in most advanced metrics defensively too. JJ didnt have an allstar teammate like Barnes to help draw attention either.

JJ > Scottie sorry not sorry

He about to get ECF MVP

if Brunson wins the finals MVP he’ll be the first lefty to win it since Willis Reed

It’s the 5 best players in the league in my opinion. I guess people will say Giannis but I think Cade was better than Giannis this year.

Barnes and KAT got fucking robbed

Chet seems a bit generous to me tbh

Ant didn’t hit the game requirement otherwise he would be first/second team