{"id":679247,"date":"2026-05-18T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679247\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:44:13","slug":"blake-griffin-taylor-rooks-take-shots-at-shams-charania-for-spoiling-nba-mvp-announcement-you-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679247\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Griffin, Taylor Rooks take shots at Shams Charania for spoiling NBA MVP announcement: \u2018You nerd\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cNBA on Prime\u201d crew had a few words for Shams Charania after ESPN\u2019s NBA insider spoiled Amazon\u2019s NBA MVP reveal.<\/p>\n

Charania broke the news Sunday morning that Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> won the MVP award<\/a> for the second straight year \u2014 before Amazon\u2019s scheduled announcement of the award later that night, with an appearance from the winner.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Rooks, who is the host of \u201cNBA on Prime,\u201d brought up Charania\u2019s report during Sunday\u2019s pregame show with NBA analysts Steve Nash<\/a>, Blake Griffin<\/a> and Dirk Nowitzki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlright now, just to be clear, the official [MVP] announcement is happening here [on Prime],\u201d Rooks said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDirk and Steve you both won MVPs, but I don\u2019t remember Shams spoiling it way back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nash, who won the MVP award in two consecutive seasons (2004-05 and 2005-06), laughed and said, \u201cShots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander speaks during a press conference after the announcement he won the 2025-2026 NBA Most Valuable Player award on May 17, 2026. Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Nowitzki, who won the award during the 2006-07 season, added, \u201c[Shams] was a baby then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin didn\u2019t mince words in his response.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are we doing man? It\u2019s Sunday Shams, go to brunch you nerd,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Shams<\/p>\n

Shams Charania at the 2026 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game at The Kia Forum on February 13, 2026 in Inglewood, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Charania broke the news in an X post<\/a> at 9:50 a.m. ET, and ESPN published a news story shortly after. He also made an appearance on \u201cSportsCenter\u201d to discuss the news.<\/p>\n

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During Sunday\u2019s Prime pregame show, Gilgeous-Alexander said that Nash, a fellow Canadian and NBA Hall of Famer, \u201cwas the first person\u201d <\/a>to tell him he was going to the NBA.<\/p>\n

The reigning Finals MVP, Gilgeous-Alexander, beat out other MVP finalists Nikola Jokic<\/a> and Victor Wembanyama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"NBANBA on Prime cast (L-R), Taylor Rooks, Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Blake Griffin and Udonis Haslem<\/a>. X<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s wife Hailey, and son, Ares, along with family and friends, including his dad, Vaughn, and cousin, Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a>, were all present during his MVP news conference Sunday.<\/p>\n

After winning the NBA MVP award, Gilgeous-Alexander gifted his teammates <\/a>Audemars Piguet watches and Burberry trench coats.<\/p>\n

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Gilgeous-Alexander also won the league\u2019s Clutch Player of the Year award this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cNBA on Prime\u201d crew had a few words for Shams Charania after ESPN\u2019s NBA insider spoiled Amazon\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,10550,39726,590,116152,12846,3906,5548,12841,18419,85,54233,19552,60874,12838],"class_list":["post-679247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-griffin","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-nba","tag-nba-mvp","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-shams-charania","tag-sports","tag-steve-nash","tag-taylor-rooks","tag-udonis-haslem","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}