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Message: [QUOTE="domerduck, post: 3518948, member: 10178"] T The position awards were set up by Naismith to create some equity and coordination across men and women bball. Historically position awards started with Sue Bird winning the Lieberman PG award in 2000 which Sabrina mathced her to win 3 times. The men followed suit with the Cousy PG Award which was 1st given out in 2005. This year it was won by Oregon PG, Payton Pritchard. Then in 2015 the men added 4 position awards: Jerry West SG, Julius Erving SF, Karl Malone PF, & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar C. It seems like it was named more for top pro athletes, since Jabbar's name was Lou Alcindor when he played college. They started given the women's position award covered in this thread three years ago. I think it's a good move. It keeps the "one-off" awards like the Dawn Staley Award in their place and we understand those biases in how they are given out. Naismith actually eliminated the Frances Pomeroy award for short bball players in 2014 which was sort of silly (Kim Mulkey won that in 1984). There are more POY awards than position awards and AA awards seem to be inconsistent since the WBCA gives out 10 and AP 5 on 1st team with three teams, etc. [/QUOTE]