The NBA’s disclosure of the 100 voters who compose the 2017 NBA awards panel all but confirms our April prediction: the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook will win the 2017 NBA MVP award over Houston Rockets point guard James Harden.
Sure, the NBA awards show on June 26 must go on. It’s unbelievably and inexplicably still five weeks away.
But Russell Westbrook should start practicing this:
And James Harden should start practicing this:
That’s because we spent a month unearthing 66 of the 100 first place votes for NBA MVP and can comfortably project Westbrook will take the award.