First Ever Awards Show

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http://www.nba.com/article/2016/11/01/nba-host-first-ever-awards-show-june-2017

How much do you think they should charge for tickets to this event?

[Surferdad]

I like this better, always felt like the awards being announced while competitive play is going on wasn't right.  Also like that they will be all announced at once at a show.

[GratefulCs]

Love it

[gift]

I do like this better overall. It will turn into a big event. However, it will certainly change the narrative of the playoffs. The entire playoffs will be played before the mvp is announced. Will the mvp still be leaked beforehand?

nba playoff history is full of guys who were motivated by regular season voting results.

[bdm860]

With the way I'm imagining this, I have a hard time picture this being successful at all, as I'm picturing an ESPY like affair, with everyone in tuxes, celebrity presenters, skits, etc.

The players are all on vacation.  Unless the NBA comes down hard, you might have a lot of no-shows.

The sting of losing in the playoffs is still going to be fresh on most award winners minds.  You're going to get a lot of less-than-enthusiastic reactions, like this:

(When Dirk got his MVP award after the Mavs were upset in the 1st round)


How excited would Curry have been last year to get the 2016 MVP award after losing in the Finals?

And unlike the ESPY's, there's really not that much surprise who is going to win what awards.  With the cross-sport categories like "Best Male Athlete" you have no idea if it's going to be LeBron or Tom Brady or Bryce Harper.  Is "Best Team" going to be the Warriors or the Patriots or the Cubs?  But with NBA, most awards usually have clear cut favorites, or at the most a 2 horse race.

"And the 2016 ROY is, envelope please, Karl Anthony Towns!" gasp

The announcement of most awards is already a formality, now they're making it even more of a formality?

Are they going to drag a guys like James Harden, Isaiah Thomas, or Jae Crowder in, because they might make 3rd team All-NBA or 2nd team All-Defense, but nothing else?  We need to show 5 nominees for ROY, let's make sure Jaylen Brown, Brandon Ingram, Ben Simmons, and Kris Dunn are here so we can give a shot of them in the audience and see the disappoint on their face when we announce Embiid as the winner?

If it's anything like just about every other award show, I think it's going to be a disaster.

[alldaboston]

I don't know why they did this. No one will care who the regular season awards went to, once we know who won it all. All the hype will be around the champs! Even worse, you could have a scenario where, say, lebron wins MVP, but loses in the finals. Is he still even gonna be happy that he won the MVP? He didn't win it all, so what difference does it make to him at that point? We could see a sulky acceptance speech and stuff like that.

[cons]

yeah. looks like a grab for even more money and TV time. doesnt seem necessary and i agree attendance may be sparse and several people would be unhappy if they just lost in the playoffs. also, would like several MVP candidates have to be there and then pretend to be OK w losing, like at other awards shows? I cant imagine the superstars will want to go through that when they're used to be away on vacation at that time.

anyway whatever