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Kenny Atkinson from Cavaliers wins the NBA coach of the year and strikes the former CAVS coach Bickerstaff

Kenny Atkinson from Cavaliers wins the NBA coach of the year and strikes the former CAVS coach Bickerstaff

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In recent years, the Cavaliers with JB Bickerstaff have been a good team with JB Bickerstaff – they took fourth place in the conference in both years. Last season they had 48 wins, had a net assessment of +2.5 and got into the second round of the playoffs before fell on the later Champion Celtics.

Cavalier's management wanted more, so a coaching change showed: Bickerstaff was out, Kenny Atkinson was in. With essentially, the Cavaliers from Atkinson started 15: 0, ended with 64 victories (the second most common in franchise history), a +9.5 Net rating and goods in the east.

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This brought Atkinson to the coach of the year, the NBA announced on Monday.

Atkinson received 59 votes in the first place from the international committee of 100 media members with 33 votes in second place.

After he had released, Bicketstaff was hired by the pistons and took over a team who had the worst record in the NBA in the last two seasons. He helped them transform them into a 44-profit team that took sixth place in the east (and the Knicks pushed to six games in the first round). This brought Bickerstaff in the coach of the year with 31 votes in first place and 44 votes in second place.

The ime Udoka of the Rockets was third. The Mark Daignault des Thunder finished fourth in the vote (two votes in first place), and the Tyronn Lue of the Clipper became fifth (a first vote).

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