The Athletic Announces Award Results From 2024 NBA Player Poll

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Every year the NBA has their official awards ceremony, crowing the leauges top achievers across the league. As the players anticipation awaits, The Athletic provided us with an appetizer ‘players only’ league awards.

The official NBA awards voting process is conducted by key members of the sports media, including writers, broadcasters and media personalities. The Athletic took multiple players and officials from the league who remained anonymous, to give the publication their desired winner for said category. RELATED: Which NBA Player Has Played For The Most Teams?

The questions that The Athletic conducted in this anonymous survey included:

MVP
Greatest player of all-time
Most overrated player
Most underrated player
Best Defender
A player you’d least like to fight
Current coach you most want to play for
Current coach you least want to play for
A player to build a franchise with from scratch
Favorite Non-NBA athlete

The Athletic launched its first NBA player poll in 2019, with 127 players answering questions about league matters. According to The Athletic, players participated so honestly in the survey because of the anonymity they were granted. After COVID-19 brought the anonymous awards to an abrupt halt, three years went by until the publication was able to hold another popular player poll, which hit triple digits again last year (108 players).