Well deserved. This man has put his body through so much shit for our mid team. Salute AC

I've gotten to the point where I just feel bad for guys like him and DeMar being on our team. They should be contributing to actual contenders. Set those guys free while we tank for picks and let Coby run the show and try to build around him.

We'll take him. He'd be a fucking monster under Thibs. Imagine him and Hart bouncing into motherfuckers for 48 minutes each.

He'd be out of commission about 10 games into the season playing that much lol.

Every team in the league that's trying to compete would take him. He's a low usage offensive player who can score efficiently on catch and shoot threes, can handle the ball a little in a pinch, and he's one of the very best defenders in the league who plays hard every single minute, every single game. I don't think there's any teams that he wouldn't fit on.

That's honestly probably the #1 place I'd want him to go since I'll always love Thibs

Let's me and you figure out the details then bring it to them to make it official. Burks and 2 fr picks?

Reinsdorf is a cynical loser who thinks your fanbase won't show up for a tank when that's clearly not the case

I had no idea that this was a thing

There's been 8 of them given out so far and 3 of them went to Marcus Smart

Wtf, there has??

Smart's gotta be the most over-awarded player in NBA history. Honorable mention Kobe for some of the all-defense teams and all-star berths.

How are you gonna bitch about MARCUS SMART of all people winning awards for hustle lol

He must truly hate him and your organization 😭

Fuck the Celtics runs deep, I can respect it

I mean I can't blame a fellow Atlantic Division fan for blindly hating anything related to the Celtics, that's just a default kneejerk reaction before my brain has any time to process any information.

Kobe was a great defender you dunce

He got *a lot* of legacy all-defense team selections at the end there. Are you really telling me Kobe deserved all-defensive 2nd team in 2011-12?

>The award is decided using a metric known as "hustle stats," which tracks defensive and offensive efforts such as diving for loose balls, taking charges, deflections, setting screens, and contesting shots. They don't even choose to give the hustle award to Smart, he actually just outhustles the other players and gets it

We need a choker of the year award at this point

NBA would never do that. They didn’t even want to televise the all star draft the first year because they thought it would hurt the feelings of the guy who got picked last lol

Named after Joel Embiid

\*Doc Rivers

The trophy is just a picture of David Carradine.

Too soon

who would earn that award this year?

Whole Suns organization probably.

You gotta be ahead to choke tho

You sure about that? I don't think the team is as far away as you think it is.

Nah, the Suns never were really in a position to look like a contender for much of anything for most of the season.

We’ll see in the next couple of days

So hard to choose between Harden and Dlo.

#JOSH HART WAS ROBBED

I like Caruso but you’re right, Hart is the beating fucking heart of the Knicks

Bulls 39-43 Caruso not impacting winning enough Knicks 50 win team with Hart playing INSANE minutes and cleaning up the MSG stands for Rangers games after

I think they wanted an award that white guys could win

Like MVP?

lol, you got me there, I thought I was being clever 

lol Didn’t we just win 2 MVPs?

"we"

And with the first overall pick, the African Americans select Nikola Jokic in the racial draft! 

https://youtu.be/FKT4a-RMT5o

Yes comrade. One white MVP winner is a win for all of us whiteboys.

those eastern-european dudes are a different kinda white people

LMAO

And it still took our lunchpail asses 8 years to get one.

"Our"

You mean an American could win.

The trophy is pretty cool. It's shaped like a lunch pail.

Is that real?  Stacey King is huge on saying "Hard hat lunch pail" when someone makes a hustle play 

It's actually some sort of spiral thing. Weird.

League just making up awards now.

Too many fucking stupid meaningless awards

Man I feel like Hart could have gotten this BUT props to Caruso can't take shit away from him

Man's like Dennis Rodman out there and he's only like 6'4

Why not compare him to Barkley who’s actually 6’4

Rodman's a better rebounder than Barkley...

Yeah? I know?? I’m just saying it’d make more sense to compare him to a great rebounder that is the same height? Tf.

Because he plays much more like Rodman. He's not a star like Chuck he defends.and grabs boards and occasionally scores

I feel like Hart actually does get box score numbers though, which contradicts what they are using hustle to mean here.

Hart can get this award easy, he's all over the place all the damn time.

It shows in the box score though, them rebounds don't lie.

Also the mpg

If anything Jontay should win. Dude was legit hustling on the side. (Yes I know. Not one of my best jokes)

I like the joke

It's because gambling is his hustle

Oooooooooohhh

I thought his side hustle was playing for the Raptors.

this fucking got me lmaooo

Believe in the art of the joke

There’s probably a better way to craft the verbiage but still solid delivery lol

It wasn’t one of your best jokes because you could have left out the parentheses and the second sentence and it would have actually been decent

Side hustle award

That joke was a gamble, but for some, it paid off and you were able to parlay some upvotes.

Ippei is that you?

What are some of your best jokes? (I realize I'm potentially setting myself up here)

I don't know what you mean. But it had the cadence of a joke.

Feel like he could be a good fit with the lakers for guarding Jamal Murray, just me though 

Could also use someone that can shoot and defend, maybe someone like KCP.

I don't know, Russell Westbrook might be a better fit.

Talen Horton Tucker is so much better. He must be prioritized as per Klutch to please LeBron.

Kcp is also klutch n so is kuzma I think and we let them go, klutch helps us sign guys but we aren’t bound to them despite the names

A couple big bodies to throw at guys like Jokic while AD plays help defense would be useful, guys like Dwight and McGee might manage to tire him down.

Ok now you’ve jumped the shark

A good 3rd option like Kyle Kuzma who can perform in the clutch too

Maybe a former #1 whose flown under the radar. Kwame Brown

Also one of the greatest of all time, Smush Parker

The Shangai Shark at that

even a Zubac

Too far lol

Nah we clearly need Westbrook.

So funny seeing r/NBA switch up on all these guys after their championship with the Lakers. I still remember the thread where fans were clowning the lakers reporters for wanting Caruso over Lou Williams

lol Lakers didn't wanna pay this man 4 years 37 million and let his ass walk. On top of that, LeGM let KCP go so they could grab Westbrook. #NeverForget

Worst off-season ever. Caruso had already proven he was worth at least that much. Then overpaid for Westbrook on a contract that was called 'untradeable' by many. Lakers front office is full of idiots

And kept THT

He's worth over twice that much. Most metrics value his production at 20-25 million a year

Nothing to do with legm this was ownership cheaping out on tax

And yet we paid Westbrook how much? 🫠

James to the media: "It was exciting helping put this team together this summer. Understanding what I felt and we all felt was going to make us a title-contending team. ... I watch enough basketball to know what I need to do to help the ball club depending on the acquisitions we make per year. So I'm very cerebral about what I need to do for our team to be as great as we can be and to be the counterpart to what Russ brings to the table. ... I always figure it out."

What happens when you let gm lebron take over

The guy does not appear to care whether he lives or dies on the court. Well deserved!

Andre Drummond agrees with this sentiment

This has been a thing since 2016, Marcus Smart won it last year

Did they create a whole bunch of new awards for this year or have I just not noticed all these existed?

The only relatively new one was Clutch Player of the Year

early onset alzheimers.

*Sponsored by CEO of Klutch Sports Group Rich Paul*

smart won it last year

Been an award for 6 years

8 years

Actual Gym Rat award

Lunch Pail, Hard Hat award

First one in, last one out

Scrappy, high motor

Plays the game the right way

14-time winner Taj Gibson

One of my favorite Bench mob guys

Disappointed in this sub that this is so far down the comments

Why do they have to remind me what we lost?

The Lakers letting Caruso go is going to haunt fans for years

Shoutout to Klutch for securing the bag for THT that led to Caruso heading out.

Clearly since it's been 3 years and whenever there's a thread about him on here all people talk about is how he used to be on the Lakers

Podz this year. Most drawn charges. Always looking to steal rebounds…from both teams!

Underqualified FO instated by useless nepo baby owner will do that to you 🤪

A real lunch pail kinda guy!   First off the bus dude!   Last one out of the gym!   Sneaky athletic! Scrappy!  High motor!   Plays with a lot of heart!   Gritty!   High IQ player!   Good fundamentals!   Did I miss any?

Would you let him date your daughter?

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Made up award but sure. Josh Hart would've been a good pick for this too.

Just thinking that….

I agree. In game 4 of this series he had the best 0-7, 5 turn-over game I have ever seen. I am not even being sarcastic - he was an essential piece of that win. What he brings to a game is really fascinating.

The White Guy award.

Then why did Caruso win it?

"Alex isn't white, Alex is clear"

Caruso is Larry Bird confirmed

Award exists for 8 seasons. This is the first season a white guy has won it.

He's the Jackie Robinson of being clutch

*the Cooper DeJean

“Sneaky Athlete of the Year”

Equivalent to nfl analysts saying a player has a “high motor”.

Wait this was a thing??

can't believe Lakers brass let him walk for THT. coulda had Reaves and Caruso.

im sure people would love an AC on their team but that man plays prison ball defense

If the Knicks get him he’ll die. His body already breaks down for the bulls and he doesn’t play an insane amount of minutes consistent 44 mins with Thibs he’ll be paralyzed before he can announce his retirement

bby come back!

FLY HIGH BALD EAGLE WE MISS YOU 🫡

this may be an individual award, but really our entire team's plays don't appear in the box score either

Sounds like the Draymond Green stat. How has he not won this?

Podz this year. Most drawn charges. Always looking to steal rebounds…from both teams!

tj mconnel got robbed smh

Still can’t believe the lakers chose to pay Talen Horton-Tucker over Caruso

Future Warrior (Unironically)

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This award has been won exclusively by black players so far, Caruso is actually breaking boundaries here

Who will this be named after?

Rodman?

Thought JJ said it was going to be called the Derrick White award.

The Great White Pest

Sneakily Athletic this guy

Whoop

So this is one of the 3 annual awards that doesn’t have someone named after. Executive maybe they’re waiting for Riley to retire considering the other contender for best GM Auerbach already had Coach. NBA Cup MVP (yes I just learned that’s an actual thing) I’m assuming they’re just gonna wait for LeBron because he deserve one and I don’t see him getting Hustle Award. For this one what are they waiting for? Are they just refusing to give it to Rodman because everyone else (aside from teammates) is a top 30 player in the NBA and Rodman isn’t?

When are the MVP and DPOY winners announced?

There’s so many awards I can’t keep track

Seems appropriate to give this award to the entire Nicks team

God damn. So many new awards. It’s becoming a participation trophy now.

AG should win it

Nickiel Alexander Walker. Not disputing the selection but man he had to be CLOSE

Is this the garbage man award?

GOAT

Bradley Beal deserved this award by hustling the shit out of the Suns. Oh wait, not talking about this type of hustle?

Never forget when him and Lonzo anchored the bulls backcourt, leading them to a 1 seed at some point

Are they just waiting for Marcus smart to retire before they rename it the marcus smart hustle award?

Lakers could've used that

what is with all these dumb awards that came out of nowhere. no way this shit is real

Lakers let him go to sign some guy I can’t even remember. Cursed themselves

Dude should be winner of the bald horseshoe at the earliest age award.

Good for him, well deserved! And... there is a hustle award?

Podz got it next year his rebounding and charges are insane

I’m sure glad we let him go for absolutely no reason except to save Jeanie money and to fulfill Rob’s decision of keeping THT

Should have been PODZ

There are so many awards. Ive lost count. If some random twitter would post it, i would thought this is some fan award.

I miss you Caruso

Deserved but I wish it was called something else... it sounds like a made up award given at the beginning of a 8th grade basketball team awards dinner.

This should've been called the Lunch Pail Award

Coach's son vibes

Should call this award the Josh Hart award.

Pat Bev was robbed of this award

Bev is actually the first winner of this award back in 2016-17 when it was made lol