Rudy Gobert Named 20-21 NBA Defensive Player Of The Year
For the first time in a long while, the title race is wide open, without even familiar laundry to look for.
In Game 1, we saw both the extreme benefits of Philadelphia’s strategy of kaiju-like paint monster trio of Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Tobias Harris, and the ways in which Trae Young can solve its long-limbed riddles.
Ben Simmons might have to barrel to the basket more regularly; what the highlight-seeking, unwashed masses want from him, in this case, might overlap perfectly with what his team needs to win.
Anthony Davis can be dominant, brilliant, unstoppable, invaluable. But we have also seen him tumble over and over and over.
