With every single regular season second now spoken for, we can finally, properly, give out some awards to deserving recipients on the Raptors. Taken all together, this season was a momentous one for Toronto, with achievements across the board — a franchise-record in home wins, overall wins, first place in the East, and a crossing of the symbolic 60-win barrier.
Individually, many Raptors, both young and old, new and not-so-new, excelled. They had to in order to produce such a magical run through the regular season. (Here’s hoping it carries over to the playoffs.)
So, in that spirit, here is the 2017-18 awards breakdown for the Raptors:
The only real understanding you need to have regarding this award and Siakam is this: the dude played in 55 games for Toronto in his rookie season, started in 38 of them, and it was mostly seen as a stop-gap measure.