Draymond Green rips ’embarrassing,’ ‘pathetic’ leak of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander MVP announcement

The Oklahoma City Thunder watched superstar guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander be named Most Valuable Player of the NBA for the second consecutive season. While Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder may have known who was going to be named MVP of the league, the rest of the world didn’t, which is why the NBA set up a special announcement on the final Amazon Prime Video broadcast of the season to release the news.

Only the news couldn’t wait until the pregame show on Sunday night. Instead, ESPN NBA newsbreaker Shams Charania tweeted out the news just before 7AM PST on Sunday morning, essentially spoiling the news for everyone and especially the broadcast team that prepared a special announcement for it.

A lot of people on social media called out the unnecessary breaking of the news, especially given when it was broken, how it was reported, and it being a competing network partner of the NBA’s. It came out in poor taste all around.

Even NBA on Prime’s broadcast crew of Taylor Rooks, Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Blake Griffin, and Udonis Haslem reacted to the news on air and took a jab at Charania for ruining it.

“Just to be clear, the official announcement is happening here,” Rooks started. “Dirk & Steve, you both won MVP’s, but I don’t remember Shams spoiling it.”

“I don’t think he was around,” Nowitzki joked. “He was a baby then.”

“Like, what are we doing?” Griffin added. “It’s Sunday, go to brunch, you nerd.”

Taylor: Just to be clear, the official announcement is happening here. Dirk & Steve, you both won MVPs. I don’t remember Shams spoiling it

Dirk: I don’t think he was around. He was a baby

Blake: Like, what are we doing? It’s Sunday, go to brunch you nerd pic.twitter.com/cjEWTy7fxu

— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) May 18, 2026

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green, who has had his regular show, “The Draymond Green Show,” airing throughout the postseason, unsurprisingly had some comments. Green took his show on Monday morning, where he ripped the NBA and Shams Charania for leaking news of the league’s biggest award involving the league’s best team the way they did.

“There was a discrepancy with this,” Green started. “Shams leaked it. Listen, I think the NBA has to do something about that. Ultimately, you’re the NBA. You control the media. Like, yeah, Shams is an NBA reporter with ESPN, who is a partner of the NBA. Like, to tweet at six o’clock in the morning who the NBA MVP is, it’s actually embarrassing. Like, it makes our league look like we have no organization. It makes our league look like child’s play. We can’t hold the winner of the most prestigious individual award in the NBA? We can’t hold those results until it’s actually time to be announced? That was a little disappointing. There’s no way that can happen. Like, if there’s supposed to be an announcement on Amazon Prime, the announcement has to happen on Amazon Prime. This is something Commissioner [Adam] Silver has to do something about. This can’t happen. Like, come on. You leak it on Twitter?”

And Draymond Green wasn’t done there. He spoke for two whole minutes on this subject alone, and some would argue rightfully so.

“It also can’t be that important to leak information. Like, come on. I thought that was pretty pathetic, if I’m being honest. The NBA has to do something. That can’t be the case. The MVP gets leaked at six o’clock in the morning on Instagram. I actually thought it was fake because I saw somebody else tweet it. So I had to start searching, like, then go on Instagram and say, ‘oh, no, it’s true.’ Like… That’s… Come on. Something has to be done about that. That cannot, that cannot happen. The leak of the NBA MVP. Come on. What are we doing here? It’d be one thing if it’s a reporter that’s not a prominent reporter in the NBA. But, like, it’s Shams. Like, Shams has to be in partnership with the NBA to be as prominent as he is. That can’t happen. So I thought that was embarrassing. Needless to say, congratulations to Shay Gilgeous-Alexander.”

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.twitter.com/fhx2v1JOIi

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 19, 2026

While Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and some of the Thunder knew about his winning the MVP award, the rest of the world didn’t.

Draymond Green has been outspoken since his very first days in the NBA, and has continued to voice his opinions on the league whether people agree with him or not and whether the NBA would get upset at him or not.

In his second consecutive MVP season, Shai Gil averaged 31.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, 6.6 assists, and 1.4 steals in 33.2 minutes per game during the regular season. He also shot an absurd 55.3 percent from the field and 38.6 percent from three.

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