The Miami Heat have business to take care of on Tuesday evening. Welcoming the Philadelphia 76ers back to the FTX Arena in Miami, they’ll try to, once again, grab momentum in their second-round NBA Playoffs series and a lead on the Philly team at 3-2.
While that is Tuesday’s business, there was some general NBA business handled, so to speak, on Monday. The NBA would officially hand out their NBA Coach Of The Year honors.
Coach of the Year voting: pic.twitter.com/5g6Deq9jia
— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) May 9, 2022
The award would go to Monty Williams of Phoenix, as noted above.
A totally deserving coach of the honor, he led his Phoenix Suns to the best record in the league by a wide margin.
If you take a peep at the overall standings from the regular season, where the Miami Heat finished third overall at 53-29 and 11 games back of the first placed Suns, the second-placed team was still eight games back in the Memphis Grizzlies.
That’s a pretty wide margin. Speaking of margins though, there is something a little awkward about the vote count.