Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham and NBA cast actors
These players exceeded all expectations this season at the NBA and we didn’t see them coming.
Kieran Culkin, Oscar winner for the best cast actor on the last Sunday, always dragged a real pain: to be in the shadow of his brother Macaulay. However, Being the main star support, either in a movie, in a team or even in a sports league, is a very important role.
In the NBA, as in the Hollywood Awards ceremony, The reflectors point to the protagonists, the consecrated, those who have exorbitant wages. But what would they do without the support of others? In basketball, in cinema or in life it is not about individualities.
If we look among basketball players who do not head the billboard, we will find the reasons for the improvements in the campaigns of some teams, among which the two best of the season appear: Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder.
Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham, Jalen Williams, Amen Thompson and Franz Wagner They make up our quintet of cast players who deserve an award.
Cleveland Cavaliers is the team with the best registration of the NBA so far: 51 victories and 10 losses, marks that places it as the twelfth set in history in adding at least 50 wins in the first 60 games.
His excellent performance was not in anyone’s plans, although he had had a good performance in the previous campaign, in which he finished fourth in the east in the regular season, but it was very difficult for him to overcome the first playoff round against Orlando Magic and was eliminated in conference semifinals without mitigating against Boston Celtics.
The team set by Kenny Atkinson’s team is high. The star, without a doubt, is Donovan Mitchellmaximum scorer of the team. The co -star is Darius Garlandwho stands out for their triples and assists. But one of the great responsible for the Cavaliers to opt for the horizon with optimism and from the top it is Evan Mobley.
One of the most prominent inmates in the League improved the very good level he had shown in last season: he brings 18.6 points per game against 15.7 of the 2023-2024, he held his reboundary domain (9.3 against 9.4), his collaboration in assists (3,1 against 3.2) and his plugs (1.6 against 1.4). Although it fell barely its effectiveness in triples (36.7% against 37.3%), now launches more and contributes 1.1 triples converted per game against only 0.4 of the previous campaign.
Mobley, a couple of Jarrett Allen in the powerful internal game of the cavs, does not play for the highlights but for the team. And his work yields.
Cade Cunningham, key to Detroit Pistons resurrection
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Cade Cunningham, a star that makes noise in silence with Pistons
Sebastián Martínez Christensen explains why Cade Cunningham has been one of the key players for the great season of the Detroit Pistons.
The worst campaign in the history of Detroit Pistons was the last one: he only won 14 games in the 2023-2024 season. He lost 28 consecutive games and starred in an unprecedented negative streak.
Without the arrival of figures that would shake the market, the Pistons are now sixth, in direct classification positions to the playoffs.
What happened? Most importantly, take off Cunningham cunning. The base, first selection of the 2021 draft, is enjoying its most fruitful season and, in addition, making its peers better.
Cunningham improved in all statistical items, has more incidence in the game and enjoys good health, something that did not always happen: only 5 games were lost in this campaign and projects to overcome the 70 meetings played for the first time in his career.
The 25.3 points, 9.4 assists and 6.1 average rebounds per game do not reach Cunningham to be, still, one of the brightest stars of the NBA, but to guide his team towards an unexpected participation in the postseason and to definitely establish himself as an actor of the league to whom we must pay attention.
The fight for the MVP award of the season is reduced to two players: Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexanderin any order. No one but the two deserves that prize. If the Canadian is the winner for the first time, beyond being an individual prize, much will have to see the outstanding performance of his teammates, especially one: Jalen Williams.
Oklahoma City Thunder, undisputed leader of the West, does not want to repeat the story of being the best of the regular season and then quickly staying empty hands in the playoffs. The fierce defense is one of its most outstanding virtues and there Williams is one of the leaders: it bothers any rival, he throws himself in the head to look for each loose ball and compromises 100%.
In attack, Jalen, of great 2023-2024 campaign, climbed one more step: he progressed at points (21.4 against 19.1), rebounds (5.5 against 4.0), assists (5.2 against 4.5) and robberies (1.7 against 1,1). His decrease in the percentages of launches does not blur your role in the team. In fact, Williams takes control when he is on the court and Gilgeous-Alexander rests and returns to his secondary role when the Canadian stars.
The most spectacular scenes in what we have seen from the film of the 2024-2025 season have an actor that flies: AMEN THOMPSON.
Houston Rockets eaves, just 22 years old, plays in the air. It has already become accustomed to powerful overturns and plugs that do not go unnoticed. In each game of the team led by IME UDOKA, with an excellent start of the campaign and with a downturn that made him wander between the second and fifth place in the west, Thompson gives us a play in which in the OA stadium through the screens we will feel how he shuds the hoop.
Thompson, in his second year in the NBA, made his statistics grow in all items for a fundamental reason: as he plays better, he plays more.
Alperen Sengun He is the rockets leader, Dillon Brooks He is the warrior who fights in each battle and the young Amen Thompson is the one who makes us stop from the chair to enjoy the takeoff of the rocks.
Franz Wagner, modern music in Orlando Magic
The German Franz Wagner It is one of those modern eaves that dominate many facets of the game: averages 25 points per game, it contributes almost the same amount of rebounds (5.6) as of assists (4.7), converts almost 2 triples per game and does not take away the body to the defensive task.
While Franz lost 20 games of the season due to a muscle injury, when he returned it seemed not to have lacked any, since he returned with the same high level he had.
In Orlando Magic, the star is Paolo Bancherobut Wagner fulfills its secondary role. In fact, in many matches his role stands out more than that of the figure of the team. Focused, simple and effective. Thus plays the German who wants to put Magic in the playoffs.
Mobley, Cunningham, Williamas, Thompson and Wagner, a quintet that shines with their own light although the reflectors point to the other side.
