NBC Sports thinks Brook Lopez will be the NBA's Most Improved Player, saying "he will emerge as one of the best big men in the East". Not so, say ESPN's Experts. They're going with Andrew Bynum or Greg Oden. Lopez got no votes from the 20 experts. But two think Courtney Lee and Rafer Alston could be in line for top awards. Lee got one vote for Most Improved while Alston got one for Sixth Man.
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