As the 2024 NBA Playoffs progress, award season is coming to a conclusion. On Tuesday, the NBA revealed the latest winner of one of the league's major awards, crowning Minnesota Timberwolves big man Rudy Gobert as the Defensive Player of the Year. For Gobert, his recent accomplishment is nothing new, and Philadelphia 76ers forward Nicolas Batum took to X to congratulate the Western Conference standout for his fourth DPOY win.
Before Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey fielded end-of-season questions together in a move that felt convenient and symbolic, Maxey wheeled his chair over to Embiid's locker for their final postgame chat of the 2023-24 season. Nico Batum, meanwhile, lingered even after he had finished his icing routine. Disappointment permeated the 76ers' locker room following a Game 6 loss to the New York Knicks to end a first-round playoff series that was rugged, and thrilling, and perpetually down-to-the-wire. The Sixers simply got beat in a series with a cumulative one-point differential.
According to the NBA's Last Two-Minute Report from the Sixers' thrilling Game 5 win over the Knicks, Tyrese Maxey traveled before his crucial four-point play.
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
5 | C | |
40 | SF | |
16 | SG | |
33 | SF | |
11 | PG | |
21 | C | |
12 | PF | |
17 | SG | |
7 | PG | |
1 | SF | |
0 | PG | |
8 | PG | |
9 | SF | |
22 | PG | |
44 | PF | |
23 | PG | |
20 | PF |