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 | NBA Players` Performance at the Orlando Tournament Will Not Apply Individual Season Awards19-07-2020 |
The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada has informed all 30 teams that the individual prizes during the regular season, awarded by voting, will only take into account the performance of athletes until the end of the campaign on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The playoffs of the season will not be taken into account, as only 22 of all 30 teams will participate in Orlando. These matches will only be considered for prizes awarded against statistical indicators. `The decision to exclude the eight qualifying matches that each team will play in Orlando will provide an equal chance of winning the awards for the representatives of the teams that were not invited for this phase of the season, ` saidNBA. With its decision, the leadership of the Association practically puts an end to the competition in the battles for `Most Valuable Player` (MVP), `Best Rookie`, `Best Defender` and the ideal teams in the league. In the statistical categories, the leader in the scorers is James Harden from the Houston Rockets with 34. 4 points on average per game. Andre Drummond of the Cleveland Cavaliers is first in the fight with 15, 2, but the `Cavaliers` will not play in Orlando, so Hassan Whiteside of Portland with 14, 2 fights on average per game has a chance to catch up. LeBron James from the Los Angeles Lakers is in the first place with 10, 6 points per game. The playoffs of the NBA season will begin on July 30.