The All-Star Weekend isn’t just a celebration for the NBA. It’s also the exact point in which we should get serious about the awards races around the league.
Here’s a dirty little secret of the trade. For the most part, the awards discussions in the first half of the season are just filler for down times in basketball conversations. I’m not talking about the conversations we have with our friends in social settings. I’m talking about the overall conversations being led in the basketball community.
Ever notice that like three or four weeks into the regular season, some journalist or pundit starts talking about how certain guys have to be in consideration for the MVP award? We’re not even a quarter into the season at that point, and that conversation gets started for a few days mostly because we don’t really have enough evidence to assess for teams and where they are. So the MVP or Rookie of the Year or Coach of the Year…
