{"id":54965,"date":"2025-04-21T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=54965"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:39:51","slug":"breaking-news-lakers-have-no-nba-regular-season-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=54965","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Lakers Have No NBA Regular Season Award Finalists&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakersnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LeBron-James-Austin-Reaves.jpg\" alt=\"LeBron James, Austin Reaves, Lakers, 76ers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers had a very successful regular season, winning 50 games for the first time since 2020 and clinching the No. 3 seed in a loaded Western Conference playoff field.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people were responsible for that success, whether it be the leadership of JJ Redick in his first year as a head coach, the clutch play of LeBron James and Luka Doncic, or the impressive leaps that Austin Reaves continues to take every year of his career.<\/p>\n<p>With the Lakers having that team success, it was logical for those members of the organization to get some recognition for it. Redick\u2019s name came up in Coach of the Year conversations, and\u00a0James and Doncic were both named candidates for the NBA Clutch Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Reaves was one of the betting favorites for a while in the mix for Most Improved Player, although\u00a0Redick expressed his displeasure with what that award has become\u00a0knowing his guy wan\u2019t going to win it.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA regular season awards finalists were announced on Sunday and despite all that went right for the Lakers, they did not have anyone that made the cut.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1914087600467644833&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Flakersnation.com%2Flakers-have-no-nba-regular-season-awards-finalists%2F&amp;sessionId=0fe4ec00187d022a1e2015a14ce90f674ee9ce28&amp;siteScreenName=lakersnation&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1914087600467644833\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There weren\u2019t any big surprises among this year\u2019s finalists, with the MVP battle between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic perhaps being the most intriguing.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"lebron-james-expects-lakers-to-be-more-ready-for-timberwolves-physicality-in-game-2\">LeBron James expects Lakers to be more ready for Timberwolves\u2019 physicality in Game 2<\/h2>\n<p>While awards are great, the Lakers\u2019 current focus is on the postseason as they look to make a championship run.<\/p>\n<p>Things didn\u2019t get off to a great start, however, as they were blown out at home by the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest difference between the two teams was that the Timberwolves were clearly more physical and made it a point to set the tone.<\/p>\n<p>With that being the case, LeBron James expects the team to be more ready for Minnesota\u2019s physicality in an important Game 2.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen you play the Minnesota team, you got to be physical. That\u2019s what they bring to the table,\u201d James said. \u201cSo maybe it took us one playoff game to now get a feel for the type of intensity, the type of physicality that\u2019s going to be brought to the game, but that\u2019s just the way they play. So we should be more than prepared for that on Tuesday night.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers had a very successful regular season, winning 50 games for the first time since 2020 and clinching the No. 3 seed in a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking News: Lakers Have No NBA Regular Season Award Finalists... - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=54965\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breaking News: Lakers Have No NBA Regular Season Award Finalists... - 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