Biggest Surprises and Disappointments from the 2023-24 NBA Season
The 2023-24 NBA season is only a couple of weeks from its conclusion, which means the ultimate highs and lows of the playoffs are just around the corner.
They'll have to be pretty spectacular to top what we've already seen during a roller coaster of a year.
We've had MVP hopes dashed by injury, stunning rises by multiple young teams, key players coming up empty, former miscreants reforming and everything in between.
Whatever your expectations were back in October, this season wildly exceeded some of them and fell crushingly short in others.
Before we shift fully into playoff mode, let's look back at this season's biggest surprises and disappointments.
Surprise: Brandon Miller Looked Better Than Scoot Henderson
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Other than assists per game, which you'd expect because he's a point guard, and a narrow edge in free-throw percentage, Scoot Henderson falls short of fellow rookie Brandon Miller in virtually every statistical category.
Considering Henderson came into the league billed as one of the best prospects at his position in years, while Miller was presumed to have something less than a star's ceiling, it's downright shocking that Miller has been the better first-year player.
This is not the kind of finish you see from many high-floor support pieces.
It's not just numbers, either. Miller's ability to create his own shots, particularly on go-nowhere possessions where a pull-up mid-ranger qualifies as a decent look, marks him as more than a complementary piece. At 37.3 percent from deep on good volume (7.3 attempts per 36 minutes), Miller's long-distance shooting has been the clear positive most expected. But few imagined he'd also play dynamic wing defense and create more than half of his two-point field goals on his own.
Henderson is almost two years younger than Miller, started the season with an injury and plays a position with a steeper learning curve. The book is nowhere near closed on this comparison. Nonetheless, Henderson's rookie year features a sky-high turnover rate and the lowest true shooting percentage of any player with at least 500 shot attempts.
Meanwhile, Miller is better now and seemingly ticketed for stardom.
Disappointment: Jordan Poole Was No Fun at All
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The Washington Wizards never intended to pile up wins, but Jordan Poole was supposed to at least make all the losses entertaining.
Playing without a single teammate who'd punched him in the past, no longer below multiple Hall of Fame scorers in the pecking order and theoretically positioned to get buckets like never before, Poole was a shrewd long-odds preseason bet to win the scoring title.
Yet here we are just a few weeks from the conclusion of what should have been a career year, and Poole's numbers are down across the board. Never a particularly efficient shooter, Poole is actually hitting twos and threes at lower rates than at any point since he was a rookie. The loss of efficiency was somewhat foreseeable, but it was supposed to come with a massive increase in volume.
Poole seemed capable of averaging close to 30.0 points per game, even if the buckets accompanied noncompetitive defense and turnovers. That gets us to the most perplexing part of Poole's season: He's attempting fewer shots per 100 possessions with Kyle Kuzma and Tyus Jones on his team than he did with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson last year.
Given the changed circumstances, it's almost impossible to understand how Poole became less aggressive. This is a player whose gambling style and high-wire creativity were on full display during a title run two years ago. How is it that he throttled back on a team where his mistakes wouldn't even matter?
Surprise: Coby White Is a Surefire Starter
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Zoom all the way out, and maybe it shouldn't have come as a surprise that a guard with lottery pedigree and a fifth-place finish for Rookie of the Year in 2019-20 emerged as a quality starter during his fifth season.
But the last three-plus years simply didn't suggest Coby White had this in him.
Now among the short-list candidates for Most Improved Player, the Chicago Bulls guard is putting up a career-high 19.3 points per game on a 57.2 true shooting percentage that matches what he did last year while averaging just 9.7 points. He's also significantly improved as a defender.
White signed a three-year deal worth just $36 million over the summer, a clear indication that neither his team nor the league at large believed he'd become the player he is today. That's backup-guard money, as White's $11.1 million salary this season ranks a little ahead of Monte Morris' and a little behind Devonte' Graham's.
From a production standpoint, White slots between Mike Conley and CJ McCollum in Dunks and Threes' Estimated Wins. Conley makes more than twice what White does, and McCollum's pay rate is over three times larger.
The Bulls should be feeling pretty good about their financial decisions, considering Ayo Dosunmu is also vastly outplaying his new deal. Then again, there are the gross overpays for Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic to consider, too. Maybe we'd better move on...
Disappointment: Memphis Took an Unintentional Gap Year
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Knee surgery ended Steven Adams' season before it began, and he was just the first of several Memphis Grizzlies starters and key rotation pieces to go down for an extended period. Don't forget Brandon Clarke tore his Achilles late last season and only just recently returned. One imagines he didn't recognize the version of the Grizzlies that greeted him.
Ja Morant lost the first 25 games of the season to a suspension for repeatedly appearing to brandish firearms in social media posts. But the injury bug bit him, too, shelving him with a torn labrum after only nine appearances.
Marcus Smart suffered an ankle sprain and a finger injury that required surgery. Desmond Bane missed a couple of months with a brutal Grade 3 ankle sprain. Ziaire Williams is likely to stay stuck at 51 games following injuries to his hip and back in early March. Luke Kennard, Derrick Rose, and on down the list—Memphis ultimately had so many men out that it tied a franchise record against the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 10 when DeJon Jarreau became the 28th player to see the floor this season.
Maybe we should have downgraded expectations for Memphis once we knew Morant would miss over a quarter of the year. But this team won more than 50 games in 2021-22 and 2022-23. Jaren Jackson Jr. was fresh off a DPOY campaign, and Bane seemed certain to continue his trajectory toward stardom. Young, hungry and deep—and this is before anyone had a clue that GG Jackson and Vince Williams Jr. could contribute in a major way—the Grizzlies had a real shot to make noise in the West.
Until almost everyone who mattered got hurt.
Surprise: Down Scoring
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Let's open with some context:
From 2011-12 to 2022-23, the average offensive rating rose from 104.6 to 114.8 points per 100 possessions. The steady scoring climb seemed to coincide with rising fan interest, so it wasn't a given that anyone would view more buckets as a problem.
More recently, teams collectively put up 118.2 points per 100 possessions in the month of December, and everyone seemed to enjoy multiple players cracking 60. In January, Joel Embiid hit the 70-point mark. Luka Dončić also lit up the scoreboard for 73.
Then, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowksi: "The league office outlined an increased officiating focus on offensive players hunting out fouls and veering off pathways to the basket into defenders."
Basically, officials adjusted to when players unnaturally created contact, dislodged defenders with their off-arms or otherwise barreled into opponents seeking calls. Free-throw attempts dipped, and so did scoring overall. Teams averaged 117.4 points per 100 possessions in January, 115.6 in February and are right in line with that last figure for the month of March. For reference, the league averaged 115.5 points per 100 possessions last season.
So, order restored.
We probably need to credit the league here for acting. But stepping in with these points of emphasis for officials should prevent the dilution of scoring records, and more generally throw defenders a bone after more than a decade of favoritism toward offense.
Disappointment: 2022 Andrew Wiggins Was the Exception
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It was so easy to write off Andrew Wiggins' 2022-23 season as a blip. Marred by a prolonged absence due to still-unspecified personal matters, Wiggins' season seemed part of a Warriors season that was snakebit from the start.
Wiggins' performance was statistically close to what he did during Golden State's title run the year before, though he played only 37 games and didn't bring the lockdown defensive intensity he showcased against Luka Dončić and Jayson Tatum en route to a championship. The four-year, $109 million extension he signed four months after the Warriors won it all seemed totally reasonable—even with 2022-23's struggles.
This season, Wiggins is yet again falling short of the defensive peak he reached in the 2022 playoffs. What's worse, he's also having his roughest offensive season in Golden State.
Wiggins' 12.9 points per game are a career low and four short of what he averaged as a rookie. His Offensive Box Plus/Minus is also significantly worse than it's been at any point in his career. That's a remarkable feat considering Wiggins spent his first few seasons unfairly overextended as a first option for a bad Minnesota Timberwolves team.
Somewhere, the Wolves fans that endured that era are exchanging knowing nods. The principal knock on Wiggins from the very start of his career was that he doesn't sustain his focus, energy and effectiveness. His immense talent would tantalize, then disappear.
With the Warriors, particularly during a Finals run in which he was arguably the team's second-best player, Wiggins seemed to have shed that stigma. Now, in the midst of his worst-ever season, that narrative is alive and well again.
Surprise: James Harden Evolved
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Life after superstardom is never easy, and some players who were once their team's be-all, end-all alpha cling to their former image long after it's clear they can't pull it off anymore.
James Harden seemed to be headed down that road last year.
Remember former Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers laying out this explanation for Harden's decline in play after the 2023 All-Star break on The Dan Patrick Show?
"When playing right, I tell everyone to go back to the first half of last year where he gave himself to the team. We were the best team in the NBA for a 10-, 20-game stretch ... because James was being a point guard. It's funny; a coach called me and said, 'I never thought anyone could get him to do that.' And he did! For a short term."
Harden was more deferential than ever for a long stretch of the season, but that changed after an All-Star snub, as did, apparently, his desire to remain with the Sixers. When Harden landed on the LA Clippers this season, it was reasonable to wonder if he could recapture that first-half Philly magic.
Considering Harden had gotten himself traded from his three previous teams, had a habit of checking out and was clearly past his physical prime, the potential for things to go poorly with the Clips was undeniable.
Much to the disappointment of cynics, Harden adapted. His 39.5 percent hit rate from long range is the best of his career, and he's no longer pounding the dribble in isolation. Though he's still averaging 17.1 points and 8.6 assists, the 10-time All-Star is willingly deferring to Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
The man whose 40.5 percent usage rate in 2018-29 led the league and still ranks as the second-highest in history is all the way down to 20.6 percent, the lowest it's been since Harden was a bench player for the 2010-11 Oklahoma City Thunder.
Clearly, it's never too late to change.
Surprise: Kyrie Wasn't a Problem
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Whether due to natural maturation or the financial consequences of the last couple of controversial off-court years, which included the loss of his Nike sponsorship, Kyrie Irving's 2023-24 season has been remarkably quiet.
In addition to a lack of suspension-triggering social media posts or non-injury-related unavailability, Irving has also meshed perfectly with fellow star Luka Dončić, producing a 121.4 offensive rating and a plus-7.7 net rating across nearly 2,300 possessions together.
Perhaps most importantly, Irving has been available. He's already logged a streak of consecutive games longer than any he's produced since 2016.
When Dallas acquired Irving last year, it was a colossal gamble. Irving's free agency loomed, as did the more distant possibility of Dončić angling for a trade if this latest attempt to find him a co-star failed. Given Irving's past, a bumpy ride should have been the expectation. On the more extreme end, a full-on train wreck that included Dončić's possible down-the-line exit was on the table.
Dallas is surging, scoring loads of points and playing some of the best defense in the league over the last six weeks. It still has a chance to climb as high as fourth in the West. More importantly, Irving has been a value-add across the board.
Nobody saw that coming.
Disappointment: The Bulls Didn't Tear It Down
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If mediocrity is the goal, then the Chicago Bulls aren't disappointing in the least. But because most organizations try to avoid the dreaded middle Chicago seems content to occupy, the team's inaction at the 2024 trade deadline has to qualify as a bummer.
No market emerged for an injured and maxed-out Zach LaVine, and Lonzo Ball, in the midst of his second straight season lost to injury, was never going anywhere. But the Bulls had the opportunity to move DeMar DeRozan ahead of free agency, and Alex Caruso is exactly the kind of veteran rotation piece most contenders would have paid handsomely to acquire.
The Bulls have resisted a teardown for too long, to the point that their misguided pursuit of 40-something wins and a first-round-elimination ceiling is now the organization's defining feature. Maybe none of this should be a surprise anymore. The decision to re-sign Nikola Vučević to a three-year, $60 million deal ahead of his age-33 season was essentially a double-down on the same thinking that has failed to produce a playoff series win since 2015.
The Bulls haven't gotten everything wrong over the last year. Coby White turned into a quality starter whose three-year, $36 million deal turned out to be a huge bargain. Ayo Dosunmu (three years, $21 million) might be an even better value.
Broadly, though, Chicago's refusal to take a few steps back to properly retool remains confounding. A big-market team with a legacy of championship success shouldn't be so committed to playing break-even ball.
Surprise: Jalen Williams Looks Like a Star
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Jalen Williams finished second in Rookie of the Year voting last season for a number of reasons, not the least of which being his limited role. Though he was more efficient as a scorer and a better defender than winner Paolo Banchero, Williams' accomplishments weren't viewed in the same way because Banchero was his team's top option.
That seemed reasonable at the time, and it remains the case that Banchero is on track to be an alpha scorer.
What changed this season, much to the surprise of those who viewed Williams as a future role player, is that J-Dub started to look much more like a first-option threat with legitimate stardom in his future.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are built around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who'll likely finish second in MVP voting behind Nikola Jokić. But it's Williams who leads the team in fourth-quarter scoring. Now a three-level threat with a newly developed mid-range game that makes him a tough cover in isolation, Williams has simultaneously taken on a higher-usage role while simultaneously improving on the efficiency numbers that made at least a few voters for Rookie of the Year consider him over Banchero.
On the season, Williams is hitting 56.9 percent of his twos, 43.6 percent of his threes and 82.1 percent of his foul shots. His scoring average has climbed by 5.3 points to 19.4 per game, but he's only playing about one more minute per contest. Add to that OKC's trust in him defensively—his most common matchups have been Karl-Anthony Towns, Lauri Markkanen, Zion Williamson and Jaylen Brown—and Williams now seems a safe bet to make multiple All-Star Games.
Disappointment: Another Lost Year for Ben Simmons
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At the conclusion of 2020-21, his age-24 season, Ben Simmons had already won Rookie of the Year, collected a steals crown, made three All-Star Games, earned two All-Defensive first-team nods and landed on the All-NBA third team.
Now, after going under the knife and logging just 57 games over the last three years, it's worth wondering if he'll ever play in the NBA again.
Simmons' season ended for good in March as he underwent surgery to address a nerve impingement in his lower back. Though he's just 27 and expected to make a full recovery, Simmons' future is hazier than ever.
Yes, the $40.3 million he's due in 2024-25 means retirement is totally out of the question. But given that this was Simmons' second back surgery in three years, and in light of the way his game completely fell off after a brutal showing in the 2021 Eastern Conference Finals, it's difficult to be sure of anything when it comes to the 2016 No. 1 overall pick.
If we were only dealing with one issue, it'd be easier to believe Simmons might return to form someday. But this is a three-pronged problem that includes mental health struggles that arose in the fallout of Simmons' last playoff appearance, the back issues and clearly declining statistical production. Taken together, those might not only make 2023-24 a lost season for Simmons.
They could also conspire to make it his last.
Surprise: OKC, Orlando and New Orleans All Delivered
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We've got a decent chunk of the season left, but all three of the New Orleans Pelicans (44.5), Oklahoma City Thunder (44.5) and Orlando Magic (37.5) have already hit the over on their preseason over/under win totals.
You probably would have been labeled an irrational homer if, in October, you professed certainty that any one of these three young teams would exceed expectations. Sure, all three rosters were loaded with youth and potential. But the reasons to bet against them were substantial.
The Thunder surprised many by climbing to 40 wins a season ago, and a slight pullback seemed realistic with Chet Holmgren yet to appear in a game, some lingering doubt about Shai Gilgeous-Alexander really being this good and OKC general manager Sam Presti working hard to keep expectations low. Who could forget him saying last year's growth hit the "7 percent high-end bandwidth" of possibilities?
One wonders what percent of high-end bandwidth Oklahoma City hit this year, as it rocketed into title contention.
Presti followed that with this bucket of cold water, via ESPN's Tim MacMahon: "I'm not trying to dismiss everyone's excitement, but we're not a .500 team. We have to finish our breakfast before we start acting like we're on the cusp of something."
Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram were risky bets to stay healthy. Orlando's guards were unproven, and the team was never going to score enough to improve on 2022-23's 34 wins.
It turns out the Thunder were ready to be much more than a .500 team, the Pelicans' top threats would stay healthy and be supported by the deepest roster in the league, and the Magic would clamp down so viciously on defense that scoring woes wouldn't matter.
In all, 2023-24 might best be remembered by these three fanbases as the year even the most starry-eyed optimists failed to dream big enough.
Disappointment: Another Bad All-Star Game
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver didn't hide his disdain for the glorified shootaround that doubled as the 2024 All-Star Game.
The NBA tinkered with the format several times in recent seasons, hoping tweaks would add some level of competitive vigor. It tried the Elam Ending, in which teams played to a target score determined at the start of an untimed fourth quarter. For a few years, players were no longer separated by conference. We also got a draft format where captains picked teams.
This year, the league brought back conference delineations and a traditional scoring system. The result was a dud, and now Silver seems convinced the days of intense All-Star competition are over.
In an appearance on CNN's King Charles with Charles Barkley and Gayle King, he said, "I just think maybe we are past that point where we are going to play a truly competitive game."
The NFL's Pro Bowl gave up the ghost a few years ago, resorting to flags and silly hats instead of competition that resembled the actual sport. Injuries and the fact that the Pro Bowl takes place after a grueling season made that decision somewhat understandable.
For the NBA, the failure of the All-Star Game seems to have more to do with players simply not caring enough to try.
That's an objective disappointment.
Surprise: Jalen Green's Late Push Matters
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Jalen Green is busting all the way out, racking up 28.5 points per game on a 63.1 true shooting percentage in 13 March games. Keen observers of Green and the Houston Rockets know he's done something like this before.
Remember when he put up 28.6 points per game on a 61.9 true shooting percentage in an 0-5 April 2022? Or when he cranked out 22.8 points per game on a 60.2 true shooting percentage in November 2022 while the Rockets went 4-9?
The difference this time is that Green's surge is driving success. The Rockets are the league's hottest team, winners in 12 of their 13 March contests (Green has a positive plus/minus in every single game this month) and suddenly a serious threat to bounce their one-time rival Golden State Warriors from the Play-In section of the standings. Call it revenge for that infamous stretch of 27 straight misses in Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals that sent James Harden and a 65-win team home.
The much larger sample of Green's career to this point still matters. He's never sustained a stretch anywhere near this good, so some level of skepticism is warranted. At the same time, Green is barely 22, well short of his prime years. Runs like this are easier to dismiss if older players produce them, and they're doubly suspect if they come during late-season stretches that feature loads of losses.
This feels closer to a genuine level-up because Green, in addition to putting on nightly shot-making clinics, is also reading the floor better and competing more consistently on defense. Even if it is a blip, the Rockets will take it. Green might single-handedly haul them to an ahead-of-schedule playoff appearance.
Disappointment: Phoenix's Fourth-Quarter Flubs
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When you're as all-in as the Phoenix Suns, merely making the playoffs doesn't count as success. Though it's possible a red-hot run (with some slippage by competitors) could get the league's ultimate win-now outfit into the West's top four, the likelier scenario has Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal fighting for survival in the Play-In as a seventh or eighth seed.
Injuries are mostly to blame for Phoenix's underwhelming position in the standings. Durant, Beal and Booker have appeared together in fewer than half of the Suns' games this season. With a threadbare supporting cast stitched together on minimum deals—a necessity with three maxed-out stars on the books—Phoenix didn't have the depth to overcome missed time by its stars.
Less excusable and more problematic for Phoenix is its league-worst fourth-quarter performance.
Final stanzas are the best regular-season approximation of playoff intensity, and the Suns' minus-14.2 net rating in the last 12 minutes is dead last in the NBA by a mile. Worse than that, lineups featuring Booker, Beal and Durant are barely scraping by, posting a plus-1.3 net rating when sharing the floor in the fourth. Considering they compiled that number against teams of all stripes, it doesn't bode well for their chances of success against a strict diet of quality teams in the playoffs.
The Suns have no outs. They've dealt away virtually every pick possible. They're agonizingly expensive, and their best players are on the wrong side of the aging curve. All of that would be easier to take if they'd shown any ability to succeed late in games.
Surprise: LeBron James Somehow Got Better
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LeBron James' true shooting percentage is higher than it's been since his last season in Miami over a decade ago. His assist and steal rates are both up from last season. He's also finishing more efficiently at the rim than he has since 2019-20, is over 40.0 percent from deep for just the second time in his career and is on track to play more games than he has in any season since he was a Cleveland Cavalier (the second time).
Year-over-year improvements aren't unusual in the NBA. For younger players, growth is actually the expectation. We need to take a moment to appreciate how absurd it is that James is better than last year...because "last year" was his 20th season in the league and he made the All-NBA third team.
Almost nobody lasts this long at any performance level, and those who come anywhere close are usually just trying to hang onto a roster spot.
LeBron, in perhaps his most direct affront to Father Time yet, is a better player today than he was a year ago. Add that to the laundry list of achievements that set him apart from everyone else who's ever set foot on an NBA floor.
Disappointment: Milwaukee Isn't Demonstrably Better
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The best thing you can say about this year's Milwaukee Bucks is that they're different.
That's not the same thing as saying they're better.
The Adrian Griffin experiment was an epic failure, the kind of egregiously bad front-office misfire that calls every other decision made by that braintrust into question—not the least of which being the choice to fire Mike Budenholzer. Had the Bucks swung the Damian Lillard trade and simply added the high-scoring guard to a team still coached by Bud, it's entirely possible they'd be in a better position than they are now.
As it stands, Doc Rivers has the Bucks set to enter the playoffs as the No. 2 seed. Their offense is better than it was a year ago, ranking fifth rather than 13th, but the defense declined to a greater extent than the offense improved. As a result, Milwaukee's plus-3.4 net rating falls short of last season's plus-4.4.
Pair the decline in overall performance with the fact that Rivers' postseason winning percentage of .516 is worse than Budenholzer's .538, and it's hard to sell the idea that this reworked version of the Bucks is a greater threat than the one that entered the playoffs seeded first a year ago.
Milwaukee's decision to make sweeping changes was defensible in light of 2023's first-round elimination. Something had to give. But there's simply no indication those changes afford the Bucks a better shot to win another title.
Surprise: The Knicks Held Strong
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Usually, the loss of all three frontcourt starters causes teams to cave. The New York Knicks, then, are unusual in the best way.
They survived the prolonged and simultaneous absences of OG Anunoby, Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson, somehow playing well enough to hang in among the East's top four seeds. Jalen Brunson improving as a pull-up three-point shooter, which made him an even more complete offensive threat than he was during his breakout 2022-23 season, has a lot to do with New York's resiliency. Brunson's growth probably deserves its own surprise section.
Ditto for Miles McBride and Josh Hart's shared ability to not turn into piles of dehydrated dust under the unbelievable playing-time demands they've shouldered to compensate for all the missing bodies. Don't forget that New York dealt away Immanuel Quickley and RJ Barrett to get Anunoby from the Toronto Raptors. Those two averaged 29.5 and 24.0 minutes per game prior to leaving town.
McBride played more than 15 minutes in a game just twice through Jan. 11. He's logged over 45 minutes five times since then. Hart is averaging 41.8 since the All-Star break.
Isaiah Hartenstein becoming a quality starter and one of the best defensive bigs in the league? Yep, add that to the surprise pile, too.
Maybe grit and resourcefulness like this should be expected from a team coached by Tom Thibodeau. But the Knicks deserve heaps of credit for holding up under circumstances that would have buried most teams.
Disappointment: Joel Embiid's Scuttled MVP Defense
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Joel Embiid was leading the league at 35.3 points per game, averaging a career-high 5.7 assists and sitting pretty as the betting favorite for MVP through 34 games.
He may not play a 35th.
Though Philadelphia 76ers head coach Nick Nurse kindled hope when he told reporters "I think there's a very good likelihood that he will return before the play-in, playoff," he also reiterated there's "no timetable" for the reigning MVP's return.
Whether Embiid returns this season or not, his meniscus injury was one of 2023-24's sourest notes.
Had he sustained his production, Embiid could have matched Nikola Jokić's two MVPs, perhaps turning it into one of the star rivalries that have captivated fans and driven interest for decades. It sounds sacrilegious to say so, but why couldn't Jokić-Embiid have developed into the modern-day equivalent of Bird vs. Magic or Steph vs. LeBron? Two superstars vying for titles and MVPs over a multiyear stretch is one of the most exciting dynamics in sports.
Maybe we'll still get some version of that down the road, but Embiid's injury interrupted it this year and makes it less likely to materialize going forward.
Stats courtesy of NBA.com, Basketball Reference and Cleaning the Glass. Accurate entering games March 29. Salary info via Spotrac.
Grant Hughes covers the NBA for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter (@gt_hughes), and subscribe to the Hardwood Knocks podcast, where he appears with Bleacher Report's Dan Favale.
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