Two weeks after being appointed coach of the year by his peers, Kenny Atkinson is now named ” Coach of the Year 2025 by journalists, following Mark Daigneault at the list of these two trophies.
With 401 points and first 59 places, he is ahead of JB Bickerstaff (pistons, 305 points), to whom he succeeded on the bench Cavaliersand Ime Udoka (Rockets, 113 points). Before him, only Bill Fitch in 1976 and Mike Brown in 2009 had won the bet in Ohio.
An expected coronation, since it was difficult to be over the formidable first year of “coach K” to Cleveland. At the top of the conference is from start to finish, the franchise will have crossed a course under its orders, when it was not expected as high last fall. With 64 victories, the technician has the highest fourth total of a coach who lives his first season on the bench of a new team, after the sizes Bill Sharman (69), Alex Hannum (68), Phil Jackson (67) and Steve Kerr (67).
Beyond that, the riders dominated their opponent of 10 points on average and they also won 40 games per 10+ points, including 18 games per 20+ points and even 5 games per 30+ points. If the History of the Thunder did not exist, we would speak differently about the Cavs season, which have the most effective attack in the League (121 points out of 100 possessions!) And the most effective 8th defense in the country (in the wake of Evan Mobley, the defender of the year).
A regular high -flying season for Kenny Atkinson and Cleveland, started by 15 row wins, with also two other series at 12+ victories (including one to 16 …), and which the now “Coach of the Year” is necessarily a stranger. It is also a return in grace for him, which had taken a step back in recent years, first as assistant to the clippers then the Warriors, after a first noticed experience as coach of the Nets. A paid choice with regard to his results and the way he is appreciated by his players.
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | To | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Donovan Mitchell | 71 | 31.4 | 44.3 | 36.8 | 82.3 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 24.0 |
| Darius Garland | 75 | 30.7 | 47.2 | 40.1 | 87.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 6.7 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 20.6 |
| Evan Mobley | 71 | 30.5 | 55.7 | 37.0 | 72.5 | 2.3 | 7.0 | 9.3 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 18.5 |
| De’ other hunter | 27 | 25.1 | 48.5 | 42.6 | 82.1 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 14.3 |
| Jarrett Allen | 82 | 28.0 | 70.6 | 0.0 | 71.8 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 9.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 13.5 |
| You Jerome | 70 | 19.9 | 51.6 | 43.9 | 87.2 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 12.5 |
| Caris delivers | 38 | 23.8 | 45.3 | 40.5 | 69.9 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 10.2 |
| Max Strus | 50 | 25.5 | 44.2 | 38.6 | 82.4 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 9.4 |
| Georges Niang | 51 | 20.7 | 47.7 | 40.0 | 79.3 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 8.7 |
| Nae’qwan Tomlin | 5 | 12.7 | 40.6 | 20.0 | 72.7 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 7.2 |
| Sam Merrill | 71 | 19.7 | 40.6 | 37.2 | 96.6 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 7.2 |
| Isaac I | 55 | 19.1 | 46.4 | 37.1 | 71.7 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 6.1 |
| Dean Wade | 59 | 21.2 | 41.3 | 36.0 | 53.3 | 0.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 5.4 |
| Craig Porter, Jr. | 51 | 10.1 | 51.4 | 43.8 | 71.9 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 3.7 |
| Jaylon Tyson | 47 | 9.6 | 43.0 | 34.5 | 79.2 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| Emoni Bates | 11 | 6.8 | 34.2 | 36.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.4 |
| Javonte Green | 18 | 9.2 | 36.5 | 24.2 | 50.0 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
| J.t. Thor | 9 | 4.7 | 60.0 | 50.0 | 87.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 3.1 |
| Chima shape | 2 | 12.6 | 28.6 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| Tristan Thompson | 40 | 8.2 | 43.7 | 0.0 | 23.3 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.7 |
| Luke Travers | 12 | 7.3 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
