Tuesday afternoon, I opened my official NBA awards ballot and voted for my selections for all of the league's top individual honors: the seven major end-of-season awards (Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Most Improved Player and Clutch Player of the Year), plus the All-NBA, All-Defense and All-Rookie teams.
Here's what that ballot looked like and how each pick was made (with a shoutout to the great Matt "Stats" Williams for all of the information we could want for our ballots).
Most Valuable Player
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