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Dyson Daniels is the recipient of the George Mikan Trophy as the 24-25 NBA Most Improved Player. Daniels received 44 First Place Votes and 332 Total Points to finish ahead of Ivica Zubac and Cade Cunningham.

Presented annually since the 1985-86 season, the Kia NBA Most Improved Player Award is designed to honor an up-and-coming player who has made a dramatic improvement from the previous season or seasons. Daniels is the second player to earn the honor with the Hawks, joining Alan Henderson (1997-98).

In his third NBA season and first with Atlanta, Daniels averaged career highs of 14.1 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 3.01 steals while shooting career highs of 49.3% from the field and 34.0% from three-point range in 33.8 minutes in 76 games.  He became the fifth player to average at least 14.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.0 steals in a season, joining Michael Ray Richardson (1979-80), Magic Johnson (1980-81), Alvin Robertson (three times – 1985-86, 1986-87 and 1988-89) and Michael Jordan (1987-88). 

 

Daniels improved his scoring by +8.3 ppg, rebounds by +2.0 rpg, assists by +1.7 apg and steals by +1.62 spg from last season.  He is the third player to have improvements of at least +8.0 ppg, +2.0 rpg, +1.5 apg and +1.5 spg from one season to the next (minimum 50 games played each season), joining Richardson (1978-79 to 1979-80) and Eric Murdock (1991-92 to 1992-93).

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Makes you wonder if NOLA would of been better off just keeping this kid. Granted, that's to say Green would of used him right, and that I'm not so sure of.

TheCage4 wrote:Makes you wonder if NOLA would of been better off just keeping this kid. Granted, that's to say Green would of used him right, and that I'm not so sure of.

I think it's generally accepted that the trade is (currently) an L for New Orleans -- specifically when you add up the money and health of Murray

TBD of course

puja21 wrote:

TheCage4 wrote:Makes you wonder if NOLA would of been better off just keeping this kid. Granted, that's to say Green would of used him right, and that I'm not so sure of.

I think it's generally accepted that the trade is (currently) an L for New Orleans -- specifically when you add up the money and health of Murray

TBD of course

The Murray injury is super unfortunate. I really like him as a player, and I thought the Hawks would of been better keeping him and trading Trae. That said, Daniels looks like he could be a key piece for Atlanta, so much so as a guy you could potentially build around.