First Quarter NBA Awards: MVP, DPOY, All-NBA, Rookie of Year, more; Plus, In Season Tournament Semis, Haliburton and Zion Questions

Andrew Schlecht joins Sam Vecenie and they pick who the NBA Award race winners would be through the first quarter of the season. They'll dive into MVP, All-NBA, Defensive Player of the Year, All-Defense, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, and more.

Apologies on the audio for the first minute, had the wrong audio setting. It fixes literally right after the intro.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

3:38 Bucks, Bobby Portis confront coaching staff after IST loss

8:25 Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers are unstoppable

14:32 Zion Williamson's, what up there?

22:13 AWARDS

23:30 MVP, First Team All-NBA Jokic, Giannis and Embiid

33:20 Haliburton vs Shai for No. 3 or 4?

39:45 INSANE Haliburton stats

46:00 Second Team All NBA: Luka, Tatum, LeBron, KD, Steph, Fox

56:55 Third Team All-NBA Fox/Steph, Edwards, Maxey, Booker, PG, Trae

1:02:10 DPOY? Rudy Gobert vs Anthony Davis

1:09:15 All-Defense Suggs, Caruso, Mobley, Shai, Brooks, Herb, Jaren, Bam, more

1:17:55 Rookie of the Year? Chet vs Wemby plus Jaquez

1:25:45 All Rookie

1:31:50 Coach of the Year

1:34:23 Most Improved Player including Duncan Robinson thoughts

1:39:45 Outro

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