"From off-court revelations in October to big-name injuries in November and the NBA Cup and trade rumblings in December, this season has gone by in a flash. Throughout it all, though, the stats saw every game, every line of the play-by-play, every lineup, every minute the now-41-year-old LeBron James played and every broadcast class of Cooper Flagg's professional education. What follows are statistical awards from the metric that read all those lines and saw all those lineups."
"The metric behind these awards is called net points, and it divides the credit and blame for each shot, rebound, turnover, foul and free throw across the players on each team. If a shooter creates his own 3-point shot and makes it, he gets more credit than a shooter who had the shot created by a teammate, for example. That credit is divided so that players are appropriately rewarded when the team performs well and appropriately responsible when the team doesn't."
Season events ranged from off-court revelations and big-name injuries to the NBA Cup and trade rumblings, while stats tracked every game, play-by-play line, lineup, and minute played. Net points allocates credit and blame for each shot, rebound, turnover, foul, and free throw across all players, giving more credit to shooters who create their own shots and dividing responsibility when teams underperform. Leaderboards rank players per game to account for injuries and highlight specialists across categories such as 3-point shooting, forcing turnovers, defense, late-shot-clock performance, putbacks, midrange shooting, passing, rebounding, transition scoring, and overall impact. Rankings use per-game metrics updated through Jan. 19.
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