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The NBA Awards Watch is a constantly updated list of potential candidates for the MVP, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Player of the Week: Defense and Improved....

PITTSBURGH -- Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma didn't have a vote for the coach of the year award, but if he had one, he'd have cast it for his counterpart with the Ottawa Senators, Paul MacLean. The Ottawa coach was named as a finalist for the Jack...

On today's episode, The Basketball Jones discuss surprising and disappointing NBA playoff story lines, select their All-NBA, All-Defensive, and All-Rookie Teams, wonder whether George Karl deserved Coach of the Year, and pitch Phil Jackson the idea o...

Golden State coach Mark Jackson is succeeding with a fresh approach.

In case you were busy watching The Great Gatsby in 3-D as an ill-advised cram session for your 11th-grade English final, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday: The Miami Heat rebounded from a disappointing Game 1 defeat by pasting the Ch...

• Nuggets coach George Karl weighs in on being named the Coach of the Year, Denver's loss in the first round of the playoffs, why the Grizzlies could be the toughest opponent for the Heat and more. Karl • ESPN's Dan Le Batard talks abou...

MIAMI -- Tom Thibodeau finished eighth in the NBA Coach of the Year balloting revealed on Wednesday. What? That's the question many Chicago Bulls fans have to be asking as they check out the results for the annual award won by the Nuggets' Geo...

Marc Stein and David Thorpe on coach of the year, coach of the playoffs, coaches on the hot seat, coaches doing smart things and coaches doing dumb things....

Kelley L Cox/USA TODAY SportsGeorge Karl won coach of the year, but ESPN Forecast's panel says Gregg Popovich is better.The NBA sent around the most interesting list: George Karl 404 Erik Spoelstra 190 Mike Woodson 127 Gregg Popovich 120 ...

MIAMI -- Heat coach Erik Spoelstra finally could celebrate. He didn't win the 2012-13 NBA Coach of the Year award. As Spoelstra walked to the lectern to do his normal morning news conference before Game 2 against the Chicago Bulls, he was info...

New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson finished third in the NBA's Coach of the Year balloting. Denver's George Karl won the award and Miami's Erik Spoelstra was the runner-up. Woodson led the Knicks to 54 regular-season wins and their first Atlantic ...

After an adversity-filled season, Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers landed a pair of votes while finishing 13th in the NBA's Coach of the Year balloting. Rivers, who won the award in 2000 with Orlando but has been shut out during his Boston tenure, ...

In keeping with the theme of selflessness that the Denver Nuggets demonstrated this season, George Karl is sharing the credit for winning the league's Coach of the Year award.

This week, former Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas appeared on NBA TV and said that Mike Woodson deserves the Coach of the Year Award. But that's not on Woodson's mind. Tyson Chandler#6 C New York Knicks2013 STATS GM66 PPG10.4 RPG10.7...

Our NBA experts cast their votes for 2012-13 Coach of the Year.

Our ESPN Forecast panel votes for who should win and who will win Coach of the Year.