Weird NBA Awards: End-of-Preseason Edition

Oh, you have an NBA MVP sleeper pick and a solid lock for Executive of the Year?

Great. Keep them to yourself. Nobody’s interested.

This is where we honor the unsung winners; the victors who won’t get official hardware; the alternatives. 

Voted on by an exclusive one-person committee (me) and not technically sanctioned by any governing body, these awards recognize and appreciate things you may have missed in categories you didn’t know existed (because they don’t).

This time, the focus is on the latest developments in the league as the preseason winds down.

The “Seriously?!?” Award Winner: Golden State Warriors

With the cap spike turning funny money into the NBA’s chief currency, the Golden State Warriors found one hell of a way to spend $2.4 million.

They used it to buy the Milwaukee Bucks’ second-round pick back in June and then turned it into Patrick McCaw—who has not only made an irrefutable case for rotation minutes, but who has also shown the potential to be something more than that.

McCaw is tearing it up statistically, as Mike Schmitz of Draft Express illustrated:

Pat McCaw through five preseason games – 19.1 points, 4.4 assists and 2.7 steals per 40 on 52.9% from 2 and 45.0% from three.

— Mike Schmitz (@Mike_Schmitz) October 17, 2016

And he’s doing it conspicuously, hitting game-tying triples at the end of regulation and game-winning floaters in overtime…in the same contest. He did that to the Denver Nuggets on Oct. 14, and head coach Steve Kerr’s reaction was that of a man certain he’d already gotten away with too much luck in his coaching life but who now seems to be getting away with even more:

Patrick McCaw, FTW.Coach Kerr’s face says it all