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The Toronto Raptors‘ Dwane Casey was the NBA’s best coach this season Sonny Milano Jersey , according to his fellow NBA coaches.

Casey was announced Wednesday as the coach-of-the-year selection by the National Basketball Coaches Association. The award, named for longtime NBCA executive director Michael H. Goldberg, is voted on only by the league’s head coaches.

A media panel voted separately for the NBA’s Coach of the Year award, which will be announced June 25.

”To be honored by your peers is incredibly gratifying Luke Schenn Jersey Kids , and I am so thankful to my colleagues across the league for this recognition,” Casey said. ”I’m also grateful to the talented and dedicated coaching staff I work with every day in Toronto. To be recognized with an award that bears Michael H. Goldberg’s name is very special.”

Casey won after a season in which Toronto went a franchise-best 59-23 and finished with the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, before getting swept by Cleveland in the second round of the playoffs.

Other coaches who received votes were Philadelphia’s Brett Brown, Houston’s Mike D’Antoni Jonathan Ogden Jersey , Indiana’s Nate McMillan, San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich, the Los Angeles Clippers‘ Doc Rivers, Utah’s Quin Snyder and Portland’s Terry Stotts.

NBCA President Rick Carlisle Dolphins Cheap Jerseys , the Dallas Mavericks‘ coach, called the Goldberg award ”one of the most meaningful in all of pro sports.”

”Dwane Casey once again maximized the Toronto roster to achieve the top record in the Eastern Conference,” Carlisle said.

D’Antoni and Miami’s Erik Spoelstra shared the NBCA award when it was presented for the first time last season. Casey will receive the award at the NBCA’s annual meeting in September.

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The Browns had first dibs on any of the players placed on waivers around the league on Saturday and they used it to add five new players to their roster.

Four of the five players are on the defensive side of the ball. They added former Ravens defensive tackle Carl Davis, former Vikings defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo Marquise Goodwin Jersey , former Cardinals defensive back Tavierre Thomas and former Bills linebacker Tanner Vallejo.

Davis was a 2015 third-round pick and played in 28 games over the last three seasons. Odenigbo was a seventh-round pick last year and some felt he had a good shot at making the team in Minnesota before landing on the waiver wire. Vallejo played 15 games last year after being drafted in the sixth round while Thomas was an undrafted free agent this year.

The Browns also claimed former Rams center Aaron Neary.

The full list of players who will be dropped to make room is not yet available, but Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reports that center Austin Reiter will be released.

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