The end of the regular season means that the playoffs are about to begin, and it also means that the major awards of the regular season will be announced one after another. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Spurs have had a good record this season and are strong overall, which is what everyone is looking at. However, relatively speaking, the major awards in the regular season are more individual awards, which means that there are not many people on the Spurs team who can win awards.

Of course, there are two awards that the Spurs are still very competitive, one is the best coach, and Popovich is the most popular candidate.

This season, the Spurs not only have a league-best 68-14 record, breaking team history, but this record is also the third highest in NBA history.

In NBA history, the Spurs tied for third place with 68 wins this season, behind the 1995-96 Bulls (72 wins), the 1996-97 Bulls and the 1971-72 Lakers (both 69 wins). The Celtics in 1972-73 and the 76ers in 1966-67 both won 68 in a single season.

With that record, combined with the Spurs' longest league-winning streak of 19 this season, Popovich is naturally the favorite for the best coach.

In addition to Popovich, Li Yang is the Spurs' other most likely winner, and Li Yang is very competitive in both awards, one for the best sixth man and the other for the most improved player.

This season, Li Yang is averaging 16.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, a huge improvement from 7.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists last season, making him the most serious contender for the most improved player.

Li Yang's disadvantage is that he played too little in the regular season last season, so in the eyes of many people, last season's data does not show Li Yang's true strength, and if Li Yang's performance in the playoffs is followed, his progress does not look so exaggerated.

However, in the eyes of other people, it is precisely because of this that Li Yang's progress is more obvious. Imagine that he was still developing the league at the start of the regular season last season, and now Li Yang has become an All-Star starter.

Li Yang's biggest competitor in this award is the Suns' Dragic, Dragic can get 20.3 points, 5.9 assists and 3.2 rebounds this season, compared with 14.7 points, 7.4 assists and 3.1 rebounds last season, which is also a big improvement, and Dragic led the Suns to play a very good record this season, although he did not make the playoffs in the end, but has maintained the possibility of entering the playoffs, and in the end only one win behind the Mavericks.

Dragic's disadvantage is that although his scoring has improved a lot, the decline in assists is also obvious.

Li Yang's stats combined with the Spurs' record make him a great contender for the Sixth Man of the Year as well, and Li Yang's biggest rival in this award is Jamal Crawford of the Clippers.

Crawford, who was ranked second in the Sixth Man of the Year award last season, has a very good record this season, and Crawford is even a little higher in scoring than Li Yang, with Crawford finishing with 18.6 points, 2.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists this season.

However, considering that Li Yang is in the Spurs, although he only scored 16.5 points, he is already the second highest score on the Spurs team, second only to Parker's 16.7 points, Li Yang is undoubtedly still very competitive, especially Li Yang's performance on the defensive end can pull him a lot of points.

After all, being the best sixth man isn't just about how many points you can help your team score on the offensive end.

On the third day of the regular season, the 13-14 playoffs officially began, and the Spurs did not play on this day, and their game will be on the second day, and it is on this day that the league is the first to announce the attribution of three of the regular season awards.

The NBA's first award was Defensive Player for All, and almost every season the award was the first to find a home, with this season's Defensive Player of the Year going to Bulls center Joakim Noah.

Noah has played a career masterpiece this season, averaging 12.6 points, 11.3 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game, ranking sixth in the league in rebounds, while also averaging 1.51 blocks and 1.24 steals per game. He is one of only three players to average 10 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 1.2 steals per game this season, the other two being Drummond of the Pistons and Anthony Davis of the Pelicans.

The Bulls have conceded just 91.8 points per game this season, the fewest points conceded, and the Bulls rank second in the league in limiting opponents' shooting percentage (43%).

Li Yang is also on the list in the selection of the best defensive player, and he is ranked fourth on this list. Although his defensive performance this season is obvious to all, the outside players are naturally weak in this award, and in the eyes of many people, Li Yang played as a substitute most of the time, and did not play the whole game against the opponent's outside knife figures, plus the Spurs also have Leonard and Green, two excellent defensive guard players, which also makes Li Yang's defense a lot less helpful to the entire Spurs.

After announcing the Defensive Player of the Year, the league then announced the Coach of the Season of the Year, and it was Popovich who received the award.

In the voting process for the best coach, which was attended by 124 journalists and commentators, Popovich received a total of 72 votes for the first place, and won the honor by an overwhelming margin.

In addition to the previously mentioned stellar record, the Spurs have a lot to commend about it, ranking first in the league with an average of 8.0 points per game this season. At the same time, Popovich's all-for-all approach to coaching has been perfectly implemented, and in 2013-14, everyone on the Spurs team averaged less than 30 minutes per game, the first time in NBA history that a team has done so.

With this Best Coach trophy, Popovich now has three Best Coach trophies in his hands, which he had previously won in '02-03 and '11-12.

The third award announced on the same day was related to Li Yang, the Most Improved Player Award in the 13-14 season.

Before the selection, it was unanimously agreed that Li Yang and Dragic would be the most competitive candidates for this award, and the results were announced.

With 70 first-place votes and a total of 518 points, Li Yang topped the list by a huge margin in the media reporter's poll, followed by Dragic with 295 points.

Winning the Most Improved Player award, Li Yang also won his third trophy this season after winning the Rookie Challenge MVP and Slam Dunk Contest, while also maintaining a strong competitive spot for the Sixth Man of the Year. (To be continued.) )