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The Hoop Collective: How making All-NBA (or not) will affect Ja Morant, Jaylen Brown

Brian Windhorst and a team of ESPN's Insiders sort out life and the news from in and around the NBA world, including bonus implications for two of the NBA's young stars, one thing you might not know about New York Knicks forward Julius Randle and what's going on with the Philadelphia 76ers' starting lineup(s).

There has been much discussion over the upcoming NBA Most Valuable Player Award vote, an annual tradition that varies in its intensity. But one award race has more tangible stakes to be determined in the season's final weeks: The All-NBA candidacies of Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant and Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown.