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But Warriors guard Seth Curry is confused by the conversation surrounding the Finals MVP in recent years, something he believes saw an uptick beginning in 2015, as he shared on Threads. "I’m seeing a lot of Finals MVP talk. who cares," Curry wrote. "Growing up i never heard anybody talking about finals MVP.. Started around 2015 for some reason."

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Jorge Sierra: Not official yet, but Jalen Brunson is the second-shortest Finals MVP in NBA history (behind Isiah Thomas).

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JR Smith on feeling slighted by the Sixth Man award: "It kind of felt like a slap in the face to me honestly because I felt like I should have been an All-Star. I should have been one of the first All-Stars to come off the bench. And we get to the end of the year, you give me this trophy to where it's like, you know, be satisfied, and I was just so upset because I wasn't even a thought."

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When the NBA released its full All-NBA ballots after the 2018-19 season, one of them got the attention of Dwyane Wade himself. Kennegh Lau of China's BesTV had Wade, who had been on his farewell tour averaging 15 points in 26 minutes a night, on his All-NBA 2nd Team. Wade quickly reacted to the selection on Twitter. That is the most extreme outlier full ballot in our Media Vote Tracker, the tool we launched last week that lets you look up how every media voter has filled out NBA award ballots over the years.

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The Wade pick was not the only big surprise on his All-NBA 2nd Team. Lau also had Luka Doncic and Danilo Gallinari there. Doncic had a stellar rookie season, but his team finished 14th in the West. Gallinari had the best year of his career in his final season with the Clippers, though his numbers were nowhere near 2nd Team territory. And Wade, at that stage, had cratered to a level of production that should not have put him on any awards list.

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The Defensive Player of the Year portion followed the same pattern. Lau had Rudy Gobert third, even though Gobert was the runaway consensus pick with 82.2 percent of the maximum possible score that season. Giannis Antetokounmpo and George rounded out the Top 3 among voters, and Lau picked neither. His Top 2, Draymond Green and Joel Embiid, did not crack the Top 3 of the award overall. Though the league is less punitive about outlier votes than you might expect, it goes without saying that was the final ballot Lau ever got for end-of-season NBA awards.

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Tim Reynolds: Inbox: Paul Westhead, a longtime NBA and WNBA Head & Assistant Coach, and the only coach in history to win both an NBA and WNBA Championship, is the recipient of the 2026 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) announced today.

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Yonan: Giannis reveals Kobe challenged him to win MVP, so he wrote MVP on his water jug and won it the next year "I made a tweet, which usually I don't do. I said Kobe, give me a challenge, and he said Giannis, your challenge win MVP" "I used to carry around this jug of water, and in the cap I used to write MVP. I see it every day, every day" "the next year I won MVP"

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NBA Communications: San Antonio Spurs forward-center Victor Wembanyama is the recipient of the Earvin “Magic” Johnson Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the 2026 Western Conference Finals.

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NBA Communications: Victor Wembanyama received all nine votes from a media panel covering the Western Conference Finals. The voting panel

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Yahoo Sports’ Kevin O’Connor has come out as the dissenting voter. And during the recent episode of his self-titled show, KOC apologized to Knicks fans for putting a small blot on Brunson’s otherwise spectacular season. “All I see this morning is anger at me for not having Jalen Brunson on one of my three All-NBA teams, and I am shocked I was the only voter that didn’t have him on one of the teams,” said O’Connor on his show. “So I’m here to say I’m sorry to Knicks fans.”

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You can now look up how each media member has voted for NBA awards through the years here. The guys they champion the most, the guys they don't, how contrarian they are and more.

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HoopsHype: Voting outside the consensus may not cost you your NBA awards ballot, per our research. Across 12 NBA award seasons, the 10 biggest outliers each year were brought back as voters the next year 65 percent of the time. The 10 most consensus voters: 72.5 percent. Not a brutal gap.

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HoopsHype: Guess who's one of the players Stephen A. Smith has supported the most with his NBA award votes through the years? Yes, JAYLEN BROWN. Not a big Giannis guy, though.

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