nba mvp

Is Kevin Garnett a good predictor of long-shot MVP winners? It seems we’re about to find out. Speaking with Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Abrams, the retired NBA legend and current host of TNT’s “Area 21” had some high praise for the Milwaukee Bucks’ 20-year-old skyscraper: B/R: You’ve done a lot of work with Thon Maker, right? KG: Thon [...]

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J.R. Smith would like to teach Kevin Love a lesson in teammate support. Asked about LeBron James’ triple-double performance in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Monday night win over the Detroit Pistons, Smith waxed MVP status, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: “Who? The real MVP?” Smith said, his message echoing to the sellout crowd of 20,562 who were [...]

Campaigning for NBA awards has become an actual thing. Take the Charlotte Hornets, who are backing Michael Kidd-Gilchrist for Defensive Player of the Year (he won’t get it). Take the Minnesota Timberwolves, who are publicly supporting Andrew Wiggins’ Rookie of the Year case with custom-made socks. Take the Houston Rockets and general manager Daryl Morey, [...]

Kendrick Perkins is something. As for what kind of something, I’m not really sure. But he’s something. Definitely not an NBA MVP, though. Unless you ask the screaming gremlins inside his head. On the heels of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s upset of the Sacramento Kings Sunday night—it feels soooo weird to write that—Perkins was all [...]

Carmelo Anthony isn’t going to lose sleep over LeBron James not unanimously being voted the NBA’s MVP. Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe has been receiving plenty of criticism for choosing ‘Melo over LeBron as the league’s most valuable player, and Anthony, for the life of him, can’t seem to figure out why (via Matt [...]

LeBron James knew who it was that didn’t vote for him as the NBA’s MVP, in a matter of speaking. He didn’t know specifically that it was Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe who voted for Carmelo Anthony, but when pressed about it, he said he had an idea that it was someone from “New [...]

On this week's THD podcast, Kevin Burke takes a trip around the NBA... [...]