Luke Kornet should be in consideration for Most Improved Player award

Luke Kornet should be in consideration for the NBA’s Most Improved Player award. He won’t win because the qualification rules for the NBA awards have become nonsensical. To qualify for MIP or 6MOY, players must play at least 20 minutes a game to count towards the 65-game minimum.

Photo by Chris Schwegler/NBAE via Getty ImagesBut even if Luke Kornet were to qualify, he likely would not have won the award because the MIP award has become the “former lottery pick became really good” award. The two current betting favorites for MIP are Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels and Detroit’s Cade Cunningham.

Dyson Daniels, I can get on board with. One, as a fellow Australian, and two, Daniels was a throw-in in the…