Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images NBA award voting for the 2019-20 season has already come to a close. Because eight teams were not invited to Orlando for the restart, the league limited qualification for the major awards to the pre-hiatus games.
The Clippers did reasonably well in that phase of the voting. Montrezl Harrell and Lou Williams are both finalists for Sixth Man of the Year (again), and Kawhi Leonard will presumably be named to first-team all-NBA, or second-team at worst. However, the team had no finalists for Defensive Player of the Year, despite excellent seasons from both Leonard and Patrick Beverley; Leonard finished outside the top three for MVP; and Doc Rivers was not…
