Marc Spears on NBA award voting: I remember an NBA coach telling me, “Well, you better vote for James Harden over Russell Westbrook because James Harden is gonna give you more interviews than Russ does. He’s gonna see who voted for him, and if you didn’t vote for him, he’s going to shun you.”

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I don’t vote any more. It’s in a lot of ways because of this. I didn’t feel comfortable voting for awards that affect money and my name being on it. I wanna call it the “Howard Beck Rule” (he pushed for the writers to have their name on it for transparency) but it’s because of this that makes it tough.

I remember an NBA coach telling me, “Well, you better vote for James Harden over Russell Westbrook because James Harden is gonna give you more interviews than Russ does. He’s gonna see who voted for him, and if you didn’t vote for him, he’s going to shun you.”

I had another player — who I’ll leave nameless — tell me “So-and-so didn’t vote for me, he asks for interviews all the time. I’m not doing nothing with him.”

Anonymous player in the last paragraph is definitely Bradley Beal talking about Zach Lowe lol