The NBA season officially begins tomorrow night and we asked our writers to predict which players will take home hardware this upcoming year. Here is The Crossover’s 2020-21 NBA awards predictions.
Most Valuable Player
Howard Beck: Kevin Durant, Brooklyn Nets
Do I make this projection drunk on sentimentality, wishful thinking and pixie dust? Perhaps. But what true fan of the game wouldn’t want to see one of the most gifted, graceful scorers in history reclaim his form? No one knows whether Durant—at age 32, and after an 18-month recovery from Achilles surgery—can defy decades of depressing precedent and dominate the court again.