After looking around for what voters have said will make up their official ballot, here are the media members who have confirmed their picks 44 out of 100 voters have revealed their 1st place vote. UPDATE: Links are now being added to source each voters selections, however; most only reveal their 1st place vote. Westbrook 1st place votes: 30 Brian Windhorst Jon Krawcznski David Aldridge Kevin Pompey Steve Kyler Chris Broussard Mike Wilbon (will vote Harden for 2nd place) Frank Isola (heavily implies that Harden will be his 2nd place vote) Andrew Sharp (voted Harden 3rd) Roahn Nadkarni Keith Smtih (Unclear if his vote is official) Sean Deveney (voted Harden 3rd) Dennis Scott Royce Young Ernie Johnson Lang Whitaker Doris Burke Marc Stein Jalen Rose (confirmed official vote on his podcast) Kevin Pelton JA Adande Justin Verrier Paul Flannery Kurt Helin Joe Vardon KC Johnson Richard Walker Sekou Smith Kristen Ledlow Yuan Fang Harden 1st place votes: 11 Ben Golliver Brian Mahoney Howard Beck Matt Moore John Schuhmann Doug Smith Calvin Watkins Kevin O'Connor Davide Chinellato Bill Simmons Tony Jones Kawhi 1st place votes: 2 Zach Lowe Kevin Arnovitz LeBron 1st place votes: 1 Tim Reynolds Confirmed voters who have yet to reveal their ballots: NBA Fan Voting (Vote now!) Marc Spears Rachel Nichols (implies that it is between Harden and Westbrook) Eric Horne (writes for Oklahoman, probably a vote for Westbrook) Brent Barry Fran Blinebury (leaning towards Harden or Kawhi) Steve Ashburner (leaning Westbrook?) Jeff Zillgitt Jason Jones Nira Khurana (first non-American/non-Canadian to ever vote) Yoko Miyaji Ryan Wolstat (leaning Westbrook) TJ Manotoc Flavio Tranquillo (will not reveal before June 26) Matt Winer Rod Beard Doug Haller Jeff McDonald Eddie Sefko (says he would vote Harden a few weeks ago) Lisa Shen Yang (from China) Mike Breen Many Navarro (will reveal ballot next week) Anthony Slater Not many voters have revealed their full ballots, but here are the total votes as of now. Westbrook: 345 total points 1st place: 30 (300 points) 2nd place: 5 (35 points) Moore, Golliver, Mahoney, Doug Smith, Chinellato 3rd place: 2 (10 points) Lowe, O'Connor Harden: 213 total points 1st place: 11 (110 points) 2nd place: 13 (91 points) Broussard, Wilbon, Kyler, Aldridge, Kevin Smith, E. Johnson, Lowe, Stein, Flannery, Helin, Vardon, KC Johnson, S. Smith 3rd place: 2 (10 points) Deveney, Sharp Kawhi: 94 total points 1st place: 2 (20 points) 2nd place: 2 (14 points) Sharp, Deveney 3rd place: 9 (45 points) Broussard, Moore, Kevin Smith, Golliver, Aldridge, Doug Smith, Stein, Flannery, Helin 4th place: 5 (15 points) Kyler, O'Connor, Vardon, KC Johnson, S. Smith LeBron: 73 total points 1st place: 1 (10 points) 2nd place: 1 (7 points) O'Connor 3rd place: 4 (20 points) Kyler, Vardon, KC Johnson, S. Smith 4th place: 12 (36 points) Broussard, Moore, Kevin Smith, Deveney, Sharp, Golliver, Aldridge, Lowe, Doug Smith, Stein, Flannery, Helin Big shout out to The Dream Shake on twitter for doing most of the hard work. Here is his google doc that I am using, I also have a few other sources as well.
The people who vote for Kawhi and LeBron just flat out don't want to vote for Hard or WB. It's kind of sad. There is no way, you can say with a straight face that those other guys are MVP. It's either haterade or homerism.
I can understand voting for Kawhi, but voting for Lebron is a joke and anyone who does should have their voting privileges revoked immediately
Is he a confirmed voter? A lot of people keep revealing their MVP picks while not actually having a vote.
I can't understand voting for Lebron or Kawhi at this point. Both guys have sat out too many games and in Kawhi's case his team actually has a winning record when he sits. The MVP is supposed to go to the guy whose having the best statistical season while leading his team to the most wins possible, it's not about who someone "thinks" is the best player on the planet, otherwise Lebron should win it every year.
If somebody votes for Kawhi then I'll heavily disagree with it, but I won't mock them for it. He at least fits the criteria of an MVP due to his very good stats on an elite team. He's 2-0 against the Cavs, 3-1 against the Rockets, and 2-1 against OKC. Plus he's 1 of the most highly regarded defensive player in the NBA today. Anyone who votes for Lebron should be laughed at and shunned.
Arnovitz is leaning towards Harden, I doubt he'll switch over to Westbrook with the season basically over I got this from J.R. in the Harden MVP thread... "I have a ballot & I'm leaning towards Harden right now with consideration for Westbrook & Kawhi Leonard. LeBron is sorta there at four. My answer is: I'm not regarding the T-D as any sort of standard. Clearly he's an amazing rebounder & assist guy. If that number was to drop from 10.0 to 9.94, I wouldn't be any less or more inclined to vote for him. I love the novelty. I'm leaning Harden, because though he doesn't have that magic 1 in front of his rebounding total, he's above 8 and assists are well above 11, shoots much more efficiently & his team is more successful. That's not to take anything away from Westbrook but when you get to the MVP argument, you have to nitpick (in a good way). They're incredible players. I'd be happy to have any one of them leading my team. But you have to divide it up. Oh wow, Westbrook misses 14 shots? That's a lot of shots. Not a crime but if I'm trying to discern where each guy ranks relative to the other, that's a consideration. Inefficiency is something I have to factor in. That's just one of the things you have to consider." He hasn't made things official, but I think we've got another 1st place vote for Harden. Hopefully he puts Kawhi 2nd.
If you're an early decider, you are more likely to be distracted by the breaking of the big O-verrated's tainted record.
The voters listed for Westbrook are the known to be idiots. Probably good news for Harden to get them out of the way early.