Official Site of the Tigers · Jan 28, 2021
Trendon Watford Top 10 Candidate For Malone Award
SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts — The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced today the Top 10 candidates for the 2021 Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award with LSU sophomore Trendon Watford getting a nod as one of the nominees.
Named after Class of 2010 Hall of Famer and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Karl Malone, the annual honor in its seventh year recognizes the top power forwards in Division I men's college basketball. A national committee of college basketball personnel determined the watch list of 20 candidates in November, which has now been narrowed to 10.