{"id":482280,"date":"2024-04-24T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482280"},"modified":"2024-04-23T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:25:19","slug":"phillys-maxey-triumphs-with-nbas-most-improved-player-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/phillys-maxey-triumphs-with-nbas-most-improved-player-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly\u2019s Maxey triumphs with NBA&#8217;s Most Improved Player award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/philadelphia-76ers\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> star Tyrese Maxey was named the National Basketball Association\u2019s most improved basketballer today, leaving behind him <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/a> player Coby White and Houston Rockets basketballer Alperen Sengun.<\/p>\n<p>The Philly\u2019s guard (23) had a breakthrough campaign, averaging career highs in points almost 26, almost 4 boards, over 6 assists and steal while being named an All-Star for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time after he started playing point guard full-time after James Harden joined the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers player had 51 1<sup>st<\/sup>-place votes as he totaled 319 points. White finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> with 305 points, and Sengun 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with 92 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels phenomenal,&#8221; Tyrese shared after winning the trophy. &#8220;Somebody like myself who is proud of putting in a lot of work, outworking others, and trying to get 1% better every time I get in the gym feels great to be appreciated by others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maxey was the 20<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection at the 2020 NBA Draft in Kentucky. The Most Improved Basketballer was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of the NBA\u2019s campaign-long awards to be announced as the next will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe still had chances to win the game. \u2026 We can\u2019t dwell on that, we can\u2019t leave the games in other people\u2019s hands, we\u2019ve gotta go out there and take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey on the NBA\u2019s Game 2 L2M report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBDU4otbIP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RBDU4otbIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1782915710475280725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers star Tyrese Maxey was named the National Basketball Association\u2019s most improved basketballer today, leaving behind him Chicago Bulls player Coby White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482281,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,16840,16868],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17913,18871,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Tyrese beat Coby White to win the prestigious trophy.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482282,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482280\/revisions\/482282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482280"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482280"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}