As the calendar winds toward 2024, it's time to look back on the year in basketball with the help of my annual (and imaginary) Golden Basketball award.
Like the Ballon d'Or in soccer, the Golden Basketball rewards performance over the year across both regular season, playoffs and now the NBA's in-season tournament as well as international competition. Although all of these competitions have their own individual MVP awards, there's no comprehensive way to honor dominance across all of them.
The past 12 months have been emblematic of the way an NBA's evolving schedule creates a need to look across competitions.