Draymond Green Rips Shams Charania For 'Pathetic' NBA MVP Leak

ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania did a no-no this past weekend when he announced that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander secured his second straight MVP award. Charania promptly took flak for announcing it before the league and now Draymond Green is raking him over the coals.

On the latest episode of his podcast, Green admonished Charania for leaking the info but also criticized the NBA for allowing Charania to do so. He pointed out that Charania works closely with the NBA itself, so they must have had a role in him breaking that story. Green also remarked that it undermines the NBA's partnership with Amazon, where the announcement was supposed to be made originally.

"Listen, I think the NBA has to do something about that," Green said on his podcast. "Ultimately, you're the NBA. You control the media. Shams is an NBA reporter with ESPN, who's a partner of the NBA. To tweet at six o'clock in the morning who the NBA MVP is, it's actually embarrassing. It makes our league look like we have no organization. It makes our league look like… That's 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. If there's supposed to be an announcement on Amazon Prime, the announcement has to happen on Amazon Prime. This is something Commissioner Silver has to do something about. This can't happen. Come on. You leak it on Twitter? It also can't be that important to leak information. 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."

"What are we doing?"

Green continued, remarking that Charania's leak was "embarrassing" and that the NBA should really try to be more professional than allowing something like that to happen.

"I actually thought it was fake, because I saw somebody else tweet it," Green explained. "I had to start searching… and then go on Instagram, and, like, oh, no, it's true…. Come on. Something has to be done. That cannot happen. The leak of the NBA MVP."

"What are we doing?" Green added. "It would be one thing if it's not a prominent reporter in the NBA. But, like, it's Shams. Shams has to be in partnership with the NBA to be as prominent as he is. That can't happen. I thought that was embarrassing."

NBA fans largely agreed, but some argued that it isn't the NBA's fault, it's simply a by-product of modern day media and reporting.

"That idiot a plant & is all about who gets it out 1st... immature. Woj will always be missed," one user wrote on X.

"I agree with Draymond about something? Wtf… lol and I appreciate that he put this on the league not Shams bc Shams was doing his job," another remarked.

"That's not necessarily the NBA. That's what media/reporting has become," wrote a third.

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This story was originally published May 19, 2026 at 10:19 AM.