LeBron James and Anthony Davis highlight NBPA’s Backbone Award winners, which were announced this week by way of various social media posts.
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The Backbone Award is intended to honor a player on each NBA team that represents the heart and soul of their respective team. In turn, that means each franchise in the league has someone who won The Backbone Award.
The award is part of several NBPA awards that are exclusively voted on by players, instead of awards like MVP that are decided by the media.
Here happens to be the listen of everyone who won the award:
- Atlanta – Kent Bazemore
- Boston – Marcus Smart
- Brooklyn – Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
- Charlotte – Kemba Walker
- Chicago – Bobby Portis
- Cleveland – LeBron James
- Dallas – Wesley Matthews
- Denver – RIchard Jefferson
- Detroit – Andre Drummond
- GSW – Draymond Green
- Houston – PJ Tucker
- Indiana – Victor Oladipo
- LAC – DeAndre Jordan
- LAL – Julius Randall
- Memphis – Marc Gasol
- Miami – Udonis Haslem
- Milwaukee – Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Minnesota – Taj Gibson
- New Orleans – Anthony Davis
- New York – Enes Kanter
- OKC – Nick Collison
- Orlando – Marreese Speights
- Philadelphia – TJ McConnell
- Phoenix – Alan Williams
- Portland – Damian Lillard
- Sacramento – Vince Carter
- San Antonio – LaMarcus Aldridge
- Toronto – Kyle Lowry
- Utah – Jae Crowder
- Washington – John Wall
Agree? Disagree?
Who do you think belongs and who would you prefer in their place?
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