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The NBA provides no guidelines for how voters should cast their ballot for MVP, opting instead to let “valuable” be up for interpretation. And therein lies the problem, what is valuable?

The Thunder and the Blazers may provide one of the most intense series in the first round, as top-tier competitors Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook will be sure to leave it all on the floor.

After his dominant run last postseason, I’ve learned never to count LeBron out. But, after watching him struggle to play against some of the league’s worst, I don’t know if this is the same LeBron we’ve seen in years past.

It was a respectable inaugural season for Anderson, but from a dollars-and-cents perspective, however, it was hard to ignore that the Rockets paid $18 million for Anderson to put up solid-but-not-great numbers.

The Rockets deserve all the credit in the world for fighting with their backs against the wall, avoiding a 3-1 hole that would have likely meant an series loss.

This was undoubtedly a winnable game for Houston, but simple errors such as losing focus for a couple minutes will lose the game immediately against Golden State.

Just because a team may be lacking a star player does not mean that it can’t overcome the injury ─ as Anthony Davis and the New Orleans Pelicans have shown.

Under the same spotlight where Laker legend Kobe Bryant used to drop 30 points on a nightly basis, Ingram made his long-awaited NBA debut in style.

This one is especially great because I can just imagine the Ricola man launching basketballs out of his horn in the middle of the Swiss Alps.