The ballots are arriving in the in-boxes of about 100 media members who regularly cover the NBA and its teams, ballots that will determine the season award winners in this most convoluted of seasons.
They have to be filed before even the play-in portion of the playoff begin, so are based solely on the 72-game regular season.
And it will spark, as it always does, debate between fans about the merits of players from their favourite teams when compared to others. Sometimes that debate gets heated, sometimes it is not the least bit based in fact and the subjective nature of the balloting should always be taken into consideration.