Rachel Nichols

Kevin O'Connor, NBA writer of Yahoo Sports, joins me in about five minutes.

This is very cool, although I got to be honest, small amount of jealousy.

Working with Rachel Nichols, she has an actual NBA awards ballot.

Hasn't filled it out yet.

Hasn't submitted everything.

It's coming up in two hours.

It's unbelievable.

I can't wait to get fully in that with you.

And Kevin O'Connor, I think he's already submitted, but he actually has an awards ballot.

So I'm just around like actually credible people.

And then it's me.

But here we go.

Before KOC joins us, want to take a stab at the ones.

Some of them are easy and some of them are a little bit more complicated.

I would give SGA the back to back MVP.

It is one of the greatest guard seasons in the history of the sport, a sport that historically led more by big wings like LeBron or centers.

For the best team in the league to have the best player on that team be a point guard, shooting guard hybrid,

and just turn in his fourth straight 30-plus point per game season, this year the second leading scorer in the NBA, do it on 55% shooting, increasing basically every player efficiency rating, true shooting percentage, all of the advanced metrics say he's actually a little better this year than last year.

When last year Chet was hurt, this year Jalen Williams has been hurt, and that's not the only one.

They've been one of the most injured teams in the league while being one of the youngest teams in the league.