John Hollingers All-Bubble Awards: The Seeding Games edition – The Athletic

Bubble awards? You desire bubble awards?
Let me inform you, Im all about bubble awards. Even prior to the NBA revealed that they d name an MVP and an all-tournament team for the bubble– excuse me, “seeding games”– over the previous 2 weeks, I was favorably beaming over this amazing possibility.
First, who could be versus such a thing? More notably, the timing is correct.
After an intense 2 weeks of competitors that in many respects looked like the old Olympic format more than the present NBA, we need to breathe out before the playoffs start and digest the finest and worst of what we saw. Much of it was good– much, much more than we anticipated, if were being honest. The shot-making was at times sensational, the competitiveness was there to match it, and the “brand-new and amazing!” camera angles were thankfully kept to a minimum. A pester of fouls was the only withstanding …