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Staff Writer, The Ringer<\/div>\n
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The NBA Offseason\u00a0Awards<\/h3>\n

A year-round league deserves year-round\u00a0awards<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/span>T<\/span><\/span>he NBA\u2019s existence as a year-round sport began, in earnest, with LeBron James\u2019s decision to join the Miami Heat in 2010. To explain what the hell had just happened, how it was possible, and what might occur next, we needed a new kind of NBA discourse. It required an at-least semifunctional understanding of the Association\u2019s arcane salary cap, a working knowledge of analytics, and an awareness of the history of player movement in the NBA and sports in general. This coincided with the rise of social media, which allowed hardcore NBA fiends to get their fixes pretty much around the clock, and helped create the tone for this conversation. We imagined slights between players, analyzed body language, indulged in conspiracy theorizing, and did some pure shitposting. NBA discourse is simultaneously smarter and <\/em>dumber than ever before. That contradiction\u200a\u2014\u200alike Michael Jordan becoming the universal symbol for defeat\u200a\u2014\u200ais why the NBA is the greatest.<\/p>\n

The sports world was ready for the year-round NBA to fill the vacuum. Of course, summertime in non-Olympic\/World Cup years is a wasteland of groggy baseball and MLS soccer anyway. By the time of the 2011 lockout, I wasn\u2019t sure how I had ever followed the league before Twitter.<\/p>\n

Every summer since 2011 has had its own emblematic offseason story, each a Frankenstein hybrid of highbrow and lowbrow drama.<\/p>\n

2012:<\/strong> The end of Linsanity in New York, with Knicks GM Glen Grunwald playing hide-and-seek in Las Vegas with Daryl Morey\u2019s \u201cpoison pill\u201d <\/a>offer sheet.<\/p>\n

2013:<\/strong> Mikhail Prokhorov\u2019s Nets take out a subprime mortgage on their future by acquiring Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry.<\/p>\n

2014:<\/strong> The tracking of Dan Gilbert\u2019s airplane reveals LeBron\u2019s plan to return to Cleveland; 29 years after the frozen envelope<\/a>, conspiracy culture becomes mainstream.<\/p>\n

2015:<\/strong> The unforgettable DeAndre Jordan hostage situation<\/a> and ensuing emoji war, which caused me to exceed my monthly allotment of cell data in the space of a cab ride.<\/p>\n

So far, during the 2016 offseason, we\u2019ve welcomed the besieged and bedraggled Sixers back into respectable conversation; pondered KD\u2019s signing with the Roman Empire; basked in the vast marketing potential of a purple-and-gold-clad Yi Jianlian<\/a>; considered the level of animosity between John Wall and Bradley Beal<\/a>; and watched nearly<\/em> everybody<\/em>\u200a \u2014\u200aexcept Lance Stephenson (get your passport renewed, Mr. Ready), Dion Waiters (genuinely pulling for him), Josh Smith (only 30 years old!), and J.R. Smith (TBD)\u200a\u2014\u200aget very, very paid.<\/p>\n

Yes, the NBA is a year-round sport. All the offseason needed was its own awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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G Mike\u00a0Conley<\/strong><\/h4>\n

If the Grizzlies are a 1989 Ford Econoline cargo van that has duct tape around the muffler yet somehow still runs, Conley is the steady hand on the wheel. We tend to overlook Mike, unless he\u2019s doing something so storybook-tough\u200a\u2014\u200alike hanging 22 points on the Warriors in the playoffs while nursing a shattered face. Conley doesn\u2019t put up big numbers, or have out-of-this-world athleticism, but no one else could drive that van.<\/p>\n

Oh, actually, now <\/em>Iron Mike does put up big numbers. We\u2019ve been talking about the bacchanal of spending that would be the summer of 2016 ever since the new television deal was announced two years ago. And even still, Conley\u2019s contract\u200a\u2014\u200a$153 million over five years\u200a\u2014\u200awas a \u201cwhoa\u201d moment; the shiver that presaged the fever.<\/p>\n

G C.J.\u00a0McCollum<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Journalist<\/a>. Champion of journalism<\/a>. Mentor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also: radio DJ<\/a>. Perhaps, even: aspiring menswear model<\/a>. Or, possibly, just a dude who\u2019ll get in Kyrie\u2019s mentions to bust balls. McCollum is all those things, and, of course, a noted improved basketball player. C.J. signed a four-year, $106 million extension last month with the Trail Blazers. Which, not to make this list all about the money, but it\u2019s very much about the money (mostly).<\/p>\n

F Harrison\u00a0Barnes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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To paraphrase the subtext of Mark Antony\u2019s funeral oration in Julius Caesar<\/em>: I come to praise Harrison Barnes, not to roast him. Yes, Harrison\u2019s 2016 Finals performance was like watching a two-week-long panic attack. And, sure, his regular-season numbers\u200a\u2014\u200a12.3 PER, minus-0.2 box plus\/minus, a minus-1.28 real plus\/minus<\/a>\u200a \u2014\u200asuggest a slightly better-than-replacement-level player who benefited mightily from having incredible teammates. And, OK, Barnes spent the Olympics making the \u201cthis is fine\u201d face because Coach K had him bolted so firmly to the bench that a tornado wouldn\u2019t have dislodged him.<\/p>\n

Forget all of that. As previously noted: cash. Harrison Barnes makes First-Team All-Offseason on the strength of his four-year, $94 million contract with the Dallas Mavericks (and getting engaged)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

F Carmelo\u00a0Anthony<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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It\u2019s fair to say that a certain portion of the Knicks fan base has been slow to warm to Carmelo Anthony. That\u2019s not an ideal state of affairs going into Melo\u2019s seventh season headlining Madison Square Garden, but what can you do?<\/p>\n

Chill out, I guess. This summer, a new, more relaxed Anthony has emerged. He\u2019s speaking out on issues<\/a> of race and politics as forcefully as any player in recent memory. He won a men\u2019s-basketball-record third gold medal at his fourth Olympics, and he allowed the world to see how much that meant<\/a> to him. This came after a 2015\u201316 season in which he notched a career-best assist rate (22 percent) and a non-trash-fire real plus\/minus (2.24), and also seemed to genuinely enjoy the company of young lord Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n

Besides, everyone knows you\u2019re not really a New Yorker until you\u2019re comfortable enough to hit the bodega in your bathrobe.<\/p>\n

C Hassan Whiteside<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Two things that we know for sure<\/em> about Whiteside: One, he\u2019s mercurial\u200a\u2014\u200awhich is the word for a low-to-mid-key-unreliable person who you have no choice but to rely on. Two, he\u2019s 7 feet tall. The former is the reason Hassan was cast out to the lower rungs of world basketball for a couple of seasons; the latter is the reason he\u2019s back with the Miami Heat. Fourteen points, 12 rebounds, and a league-high 3.7 blocks per game are pretty good too.<\/p>\n

One more thing I know about Hassan: No free agent on this list got a bigger raise and no free agent period reacted more entertainingly to getting paid.<\/p>\n

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My favorite thing about this video (besides everything) is the gray AssistiveTouch circle, which strongly suggests that the iPhone that recorded it had a broken home button. Whiteside legitimately has one of the best<\/a> social media presences in the NBA, which is another thing you can\u2019t teach. Even better, I\u2019m 100 percent sure Pat \u201cif you got the guts<\/a>\u201d Riley fucking hates it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Offseason 2015 was brutal for Parsons. It began in April, when a knee injury knocked him out of the playoffs. It continued through the July dog days, with the DeAndre Jordan saga, when his peerless reputation as a Champagner and campaigner sunk under a savage assault of airplane emoji<\/a>. It wheezed into September, when it was revealed that Chandler\u2019s knee surgery in the spring was related to a dreaded microfracture injury (though, I guess a relatively \u201cminor hybrid<\/a>\u201d version?). He started the following season in Dallas slowly, never earned coach Rick Carlisle\u2019s trust (which played out awkwardly<\/a>), then suffered another season-ending knee injury.<\/p>\n

This offseason? The Grizzlies\u200a\u2014\u200aflush with television cash, looking to end a multiseason, Javert-like mission to find 3-point shooting\u200a\u2014\u200aoverlooked Parsons\u2019s injury history and signed him to a four-year, $94 million deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At long last, Joel Hans Embiid is ready. He\u2019s dunking on trainers. He\u2019s blocking little kids\u2019 shots into the stands to the dulcet tones of Nico & Vinz while (unwisely<\/a>) wearing Yeezys.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s signing autographs<\/a> with \u201ctrust the process.\u201d He has yet to play a second of NBA basketball, but he\u2019s already a treasure.<\/p>\n

Sidebar: Embiid will also be the Rookie of the Year, because Ben Simmons has no killer instinct.<\/p>\n

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Immediately after Game 7 of the Finals, then-35-year-old Jefferson, dripping Champagne, announced his intention to retire via Snapchat. About two weeks later, R.J. took to Snapchat again, this time to announce his re-signing with the Cavaliers for three years, $7.6 million ($5 million guaranteed). The best description of R.J.\u2019s Snapchat account (rjeff24) comes from a January Reddit<\/a> post: \u201cHe has no idea what he\u2019s doing and all his snaps are him talking to his teammates about how he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.\u201d Same, R.J.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As a member of a member of the U.S. Olympic basketball team, Mini-Green is, simply, the most important international basketball statesmember\u2019s member ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A defensive visionary, Thibs was the best of the crop of experienced head coaches to be up for jobs this offseason. That, by itself, would be enough to win the award.<\/p>\n

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But there\u2019s also the world debut of American Eagle Thibs from Las Vegas summer league.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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