Who needs those regular, run-of-the-mill, also-ran, officially official NBA awards, am I right? - - Hardwood Knocks journeys off the beaten path for its latest trick. In Part I of this two-podcast series, Bleacher Report's Grant Hughes (@gt_hughes) joins Dan to roll through a handful of totally made up, but definitely awesome awards predictions for the 2018-19 season. - - Our categories for this first installment include: Best Offense; Worst Offense; Best Defense; Worst Defense; Best Under-the-Radar Addition by Season's End; Worst Under-the-Radar Addition by Season's end; League Leader in Players-Only Meetings; The Nikola Jokic Award; The Top-25 Player Most Likely to be Traded Award; and the First Non-Celtics Team Try and Fail to Trade for Anthony Davis Award. Let's do this! - - As always, be sure to subscribe to and rate Hardwood Knocks on iTunes. You can also find us on basically anywhere podcasts are offered. And as 50 Cent's biopic suggests: Follow Andy Bailey (@AndrewDBailey), Dan Favale (@danfavale), the show (@HardwoodKnocks) and NBA Math (@NBA_Math) on Twitter or die trying. - - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices