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The NBL Gala Awards night thread

Close to 39,000 viewers for the awards night on Twitter. Good ratings for the NBL

"The Mighty Yarra might just receive a couple more runner up awards tonight."

*Laughing emoji*

"What did I do this time?"

Haha that was uncalled for.

Casper was easily United's most influential player this season. By a decent margin. CG had some good games and Kennedy is perhaps a sleeper for the playoffs, since his finish to the season has been brilliant, but looking at the season as a whole it was Casper by a mile

Further evidence tonight- that most of us would agree with- Kay and Randle getting in 1st and 2nd team. So Bogut and Cotton had better 2nd bananas than Casper

Can't argue with Bogut as MVP tho. He is elite at rim protection, rebounding and passing. That's a rare combination at any level of basketball.

The Mighty Yarra might just receive a couple more runner up awards tonight.

There were plenty more signs than just that zodiac.

I think the new system is "ok" but still has major flaws. It's maybe better than the previous system. It worked out great for the nbl tonight. But there are gonna be alot of bemused fans after tonight.

Hopefully it's fixed to make voting happen AFTER the season. Because that was one of the major flaws

Ware had more than a shocking opening two rounds he was poor in United's first 8-9 games. In saying that I thought he deserved MVP but it was obvious after Bogut sending Pineau up to get his DPOTY award that he was going to win MVP.

Bogut winning this is huge for the cats.

Bryce is going to DESTROY brisbane

hahaha koberulz always getting called out

What did I do this time?

Ware had a shocking opening 2 rounds. Also the last 3 games were pretty damn poor. Many nights, Melbourne's best player was Kennedy, Boone or McCarron. Even Goulding and Barlow were huge in some games. Too much depth at Melbourne to just single out Casper

yeah I got Bogut early at $14, then again when it was clear at $4 I loaded up on him.

Always good to trust your own eyes when watching all the games instead of listening to experts like Koberulz

Gleeson and Cotton snubbed, oh well

MVP about the only award I can agree with tonight. Any of Bogut, Cotton or Ware were deserving.
But how the coach of the top side isn't a finalist? How a guy goes from prospect to All NBL first team doesn't get MIP?

Bogut wasn't "obviously" the mvp

He was one of 3 guys who would've all been deserving winners

Damn!!!!!

Had a bet on Cotton at $7 start of season, then bet hedge on Casper.... Bogut was my main risk...damn

Not big dollars but still

Like him (unlikely) or hate him, Bogut was clearly the MVP.

The MVP is out of 144 votes

18 votes per club

3-2-1 6 votes for each of Captain, Head Coach and Assistant coach.

How is ALL nbl 1st team voted? Santamaria just told Casper it was voted by peers, but what's the voting process there? Just every player submitting their 1st 5?

I would have had Bogut 3rd or 4th, but i can't say I'm surprised by it. Bryce should have won.

bahahahaha yeah ok, the NBL is a joke

Yeah congrats to Bogut.

But he didn't deserve it over ware or cotton for mine.

Was always a pretty obvious outcome though

Bogut? You got to be joking. Take him to the 3 point line and he's shit.

As expected Bogut wins MVP

Cotton all day *sigh*

ffs, fuck off seriously with this shit

No Gleeson in the finalists?

Really... Seems like a massive snub to me

Not sure Gaze should've been a Top 3 finalist though.

Nice advice Dean, you idiot

lame, feck off vickerman

Vickerman a deserved winner over Bevo for mine.

Too much politics

I mean, he can be a bit of a flog, but jesus how was gleeson not a finalist

The raffle is so lame, thought they would have learnt from the hate it copped last year

Can't be mad with the Kay first team selection. His standard stats were similar to those of Long and probably a lot better in advanced stats. Not to mention team success.

A good pick just quietly

Only the coaches votes for mvp. Some coaches hate Bogut as a person. Cotton will win.

Good speech from Copes, well done.

But Liam santa basically admitted he voted for Bogut and in reflection would change his vote.

Doesn’t look good on Dane Pinaeu’s part either.....

NBL would be livid.

Yeah Long's last part of the season was massive.

I had him in the 1sts because of it. But huge congrats to Kay. So stoked for him. Very well deserved

Kay's first half of the season was sublime; Compared to Long who was inconsistent with foul trouble. Didn't help that NZ only own 12 games which would sway the voters minds a bit.

Long did storm home hard the last 8 or so weeks

So Kay > long eh

Bit of a shock

The above post was mine but I must have made a typo. Let the record show Jick will not abide Bogut's buffonery.

Well, well, well. Mr Bogut has truly shown his hand or should I say his fat middle finger tonight.

Yuck it up you Pizzagate-worshipping ninny, true fans of basketball will not forget your foul disrespect for this league nor your dopey, shit-eating grin.

Karma will bite this fool hard.

12pm Feb 19th

What time does this finish?

That sort of stunt by Bogut would appeal to idiots. I am sure Jack Toft and Manu found it hilarious

@J his name is "Carey" not Corey, and didn't like being teased, being called Carrie. Was an odd reveal. Seemed like he thought Bogut would reveal that after saying his stunt of not accepting the award was a bad look. So got in first incase Bogut wins MVP

@NAME I agree and so do plenty of others. But Liam santa basically admitted he voted for Bogut and in reflection would change his vote.

The voting system, although an improvement... Is still seriously flawed.

Bogut will win the MVP

Sydney can’t win game without Bogut.

Reveal what?

Nah, without Cotton the Wildcats are doomed.

Sydney still can win games without Bogut, they got many options.

Perth only has Cotton who can get into 20pt region.