Draymond Green calls Shams Charania tipping NBA MVP announcement ‘pathetic’
Credit: The Draymond Green Show; ESPN ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania faced plenty of criticism for reporting the 2026 NBA MVP award several hours ahead of Prime Video’s official announcement on Sunday. “Multiple sources tell me this morning that Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been voted as the NBA’s most valuable player,” Charania said on a Sunday edition of SportsCenter after initially breaking the news in a post on X. “This means he’s won back-to-back MVP awards.
” During the pregame show ahead of Game 7 of the second-round series between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons, the NBA on Prime crew called out Charania for the early announcement before they officially delivered the news. And on Monday, Charania defended his SGA NBA MVP announcement : “My job is to report the news. ” Well, more criticism of the early report from Charania arrived on Monday, from four-time NBA champion Draymond Green.
Along with being a forward for the Golden State Warriors, Green has been an analyst on Inside the NBA over the years, including earlier this month . He will also serve as an Inside the NBA guest analyst during the Eastern Conference Finals. And Inside the NBA is now, of course, on ESPN, the same network on which Charania serves as the prominent lead NBA insider.
Green, who has certainly never been afraid to speak his mind, called the Charania reporting the NBA MVP before Prime Video’s official announcement “embarrassing” for the NBA, and he said that the NBA “has to do something about that. ” He also referred to the early report as “pathetic. ” Draymond Green on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s MVP announcement blunder: “I think the NBA has to do something about that.
You’re the NBA. You control the media… To tweet at 6 o’clock in the morning who the NBA MVP is, it’s actually embarrassing. Like, it makes our league look like… pic.