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The Oklahoma City Thunder watched superstar guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander be named Most Valuable Player of the NBA for the second consecutive season. While Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder may have known who was going to be named MVP of the league, the rest of the world didn't, which is why the NBA set up a special announcement on the final Amazon Prime Video broadcast of the season to release the news.Only the news couldn't wait until the pregame show on Sunday night. Instead, ESPN NBA newsbreaker Shams Charania tweeted out the news just before 7AM PST on Sunday morning, essentially spoiling the news for everyone and especially the broadcast team that prepared a special announcement for it.A lot of people on social media called out the unnecessary breaking of the news, especially given when it was broken, how it was reported, and it being a competing network partner of the NBA's. It came out in poor taste all around.Even NBA on Prime's broadcast crew of Taylor Rooks, Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Blake Griffin, and Udonis Haslem reacted to the news on air and took a jab at Charania for ruining it.“Just to be clear, the official announcement is happening here,” Rooks started. “Dirk & Steve, you both won MVP's, but I don’t remember Shams spoiling it.”“I don’t think he was around,” Nowitzki joked. “He was a baby then.”“Like, what are we doing?” Griffin added. “It’s Sunday, go to brunch, you nerd.” Taylor: Just to be clear, the official announcement is happening here. Dirk & Steve, you both won MVPs. I don’t remember Shams spoiling it Dirk: I don’t think he was around. He was a baby Blake: Like, what are we doing? It’s Sunday, go to brunch you nerd pic.twitter.com/cjEWTy7fxu — Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) May 18, 2026Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green, who has had his regular show, “The Draymond Green Show,” airing throughout the postseason, unsurprisingly had some comments. Green took his show on Monday morning, where he ripped the NBA and Shams Charania for leaking news of the league's biggest award involving the league's best team the way they did.Article Continues Below“There was a discrepancy with this,” Green started. “Shams leaked it. Listen, I think the NBA has to do something about that. Ultimately, you're the NBA. You control the media. Like, yeah, Shams is an NBA reporter with ESPN, who is a partner of the NBA. Like, to tweet at six o'clock in the morning who the NBA MVP is, it's actually embarrassing. Like, it makes our league look like we ha...
"This Can't Happen": Warriors' Draymond Green Doesn't Hold Back on MVP Leak
Shams Charania has become the authority when it comes to breaking news in the NBA but some media members including Draymond Green are not fond of what he did concerning the MVP award announcement.
Draymond Green Calls Out NBA for 'Embarrassing' MVP Leak
Draymond Green criticized the NBA on Monday after ESPN insider Shams Charania reported Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP win hours before the league's official announcement. Green said on "The ...
Draymond Green calls out NBA for 'embarrassing' MVP leak - MSN
Draymond Green didn't hold back in calling out the NBA after Shams Charania leaked the MVP Award winner early.
