Sunday, December 25, 2016

2016-17 NBA award predictions: MVP race has never looked so messy

These are perilous times for those in the NBA predictions market. An unpredictable offseason has altered the league’s balance of power, and not with the rise of a new superteam. Instead, with Kevin Durant moving from Oklahoma City to Golden State, we saw a superteam get a little more super while the rest of the NBA (with some exceptions) stayed in neutral.

That could open some questions for the league’s awards voters. Could Steve Kerr possibly be considered for coach of the year when he’s got so much talent on hand? Will the departure of Durant make Russell Westbrook an automatic MVP favorite? How can the impact of Durant and two-time reigning MVP Stephen Curry be measured on a team as loaded the Golden State?

Perilous times, indeed. But we waded into it, anyway. Slide right through this list for awards predictions from Sporting News NBA experts Sean Deveney and Adi Joseph.

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