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Another day, another nomination: yesterday Paolo Banchero was nominated for the Karl Malone award.
Today?
It’s Mark Williams, who has now been put on the watchlist for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award.
The award, of course, is named for the former UCLA and Bucks/Lakers great who is on anyone’s shortlist for a quick Top Five all-time NBA players and, arguably, the greatest player to ever take the court in college basketball.
That’s a shortlist. Bill Russell is on it, maybe Pete Maravich and Christian Laettner. Jerry West? Oscar Robertson?
It’s a smaller list.
The only other ACC player on the list is UNC’s Armando Bacot although former Tar Heel Walker Kessler, now at Auburn, made it.
Here’s the entire list.
- Walker Kessler — Auburn
- Nick Muszyinski — Belmont
- Mark Williams — Duke
- Colin Castleton — Florida
- Chet Holmgren — Gonzaga
- Kofi Cockburn — Illinois
- David McCormack — Kansas
- Oscar Tshiebwe — Kentucky
- Ahsan Asadullah — Lipscomb
- Qudus Wahab — Maryland
- Jalen Duren — Memphis
- Hunter Dickinson — Michigan
- Armando Bacot — North Carolina
- Moussa Cisse — Oklahoma State
- Nate Watson — Providence
- Zach Edey — Purdue
- Osun Osunniyi — St. Bonaventure
- Myles Johnson — UCLA
- Fardaws Aimaq — Utah Valley
- Liam Robbins — Vanderbilt