Tyrese Maxey finished with 51 1st place votes to win the Most Improved Player award.

Coby White finished in second place with 32 1st place votes, followed by Alperen Sengun who earned six 1st place votes.

Did the voters get it right? 🤔

2024 NBA Most Improved Player of the Year finalists:

🏆 Tyrese Maxey — Sixers
🏆 Alperen Sengun — Rockets
🏆 Coby White — Bulls

James Harden is playing in the playoffs for the 15th straight season, the longest active streak in the NBA 👀

'Respectfully, I'm bettin' on the Pels... I'm not betting. No Jontay Porter. I'm not BETTING. I'm not betting on anything. I don't own a betting app, none of that.'

- Larry Nance Jr. on the Pelicans-Thunder series 😭

The Chicago Bulls are STUCK in mediocrity 😬

Over their last 9 seasons, the Bulls have had no more than 46 wins (once) and had as few as 22 wins (twice).

Chicago has lost 2 consecutive times to the Miami Heat in the 8-seed play-in tournament game, lost in the first round twice,

How soon can the Rockets climb toward the top of the West? Ask Calvin Murphy (via Jeremy Gretzer)

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Amen Thompson's All-Rookie resumé is much stronger than it appears at first glance (via jr_gretzer)
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This is not a joke.

The step back three made James Harden an MVP. The move was so signature it changed his career and the NBA forever.

At his peak in 2020, 30% of Harden’s shots were step back threes and he was making 37% of them.

4 years later, a 7-foot-5 Victor Wembanyama

Rockets guard Jalen Green accomplished something increasingly rare in the modern NBA, playing a full season.

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CJ Stroud threw out the first pitch at the Astros game tonight 🔥

(via MLB)

Here are the NBA’s best teams to bet on ATS (against the spread) all season 🥁…

Orlando Magic: 51-31
Philadelphia 76ers: 48-33-1
Dallas Mavericks: 48-34
Houston Rockets: 46-35-1
OKC Thunder: 46-36

The Rockets' Boban Marjanovic is a man of the people as he missed his 2nd free throw to make the Clippers' crowd happy 👀

✅Free Chicken 😂

The Rockets closed out their season with a 116-105 win against the Clippers in LA 🔥

Cam Whitmore: 21 AST, 5 AST, 6 REB

Amen Thompson: 18 PTS, 10 AST, 11 REB

Terence Mann: 24 PTS, 2 AST, 6 REB

6’0 Xavier Moon wins a jump ball against 7’4 Boban Marjanovic!

(via Tomer Azarly)

Cam Whitmore finds Amen Thompson for the slam 🔥

Cam Whitmore gets the block on Moses Brown ⛔

Amen Thompson goes coast to coast ✈

All-Cali vs. All-Texas 👀

All-California Team:
🔸Steph Curry
🔸Kawhi Leonard
🔸LeBron James
🔸Domantas Sabonis
🔸Anthony Davis

All-Texas Team:
🔹Kyrie Irving
🔹Jalen Green
🔹Luka Doncic
🔹Victor Wembanyama
🔹Alperen Sengun

In a 7-game series, who you got? 🤔