Sources: Thunder's Mark Daigneault is NBCA's NBA coach of the year

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Mark Daigneault of the Oklahoma City Thunder has been voted the National Basketball Coaches Association's NBA coach of the year, sources told ESPN on Monday.

Daigneault delivered the youngest team in modern league history (an average of 24 years old) to the Western Conference's No. 1 seed and decisively won the NBCA voting among his head-coaching peers.

Each NBA head coach votes for a single winner in the award named for the late Michael Goldberg. Also among those who received votes, per sources: Cleveland's J.B. Bickerstaff, Minnesota's Chris Finch, Boston's Joe Mazzulla and Orlando's Jamahl Mosley.

Daigneault, 39, has increased his victories total in each…