The NBA may not be including seeding games when naming a league MVP this season, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be an MVP from inside the bubble.
The league announced on Tuesday that it will honor the Player of the Seeding Games — effectively an MVP of the eight seeding games held at Walt Disney World. It will also name an All-Seeding Games Team.
The recipients will be determined from a panel of reporters and broadcasters who are on site in Florida, per the release. They will vote for five players for the First Team and five players for the Second Team, and will be allowed to select 10 players from any position from either conference.