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All-NBA Teams To Be Announced Before Other Awards Due To Designated Player Exception

To allow for its teams to "have all the necessary information to make offseason preparations," the NBA "will announce its all-NBA teams before its inaugural awards show in late June," according to sources cited by Tim Bontemps of the WASHINGTON POST. Because of the newly created Designated Player Exception, which "relies on players making, among other things, one of the three all-NBA teams to qualify," decisions about whether players will be "willing to remain with their current team or be open to being traded elsewhere could be based upon whether a player is voted on to one of those teams." The newly created awards show will air June 26, several days after the NBA Draft, which, if the all-NBA teams were announced during the awards show, would have "put teams in a tough spot." Bontemps notes having all 30 teams "know who will and won't qualify for the DPE heading into it, and the offseason, will allow everyone to accurately gauge where things are headed." This year, instead of the "slow and steady release of winners, with individual news [conferences] in their various locations, all of the award winners would convene to be celebrated in a grand spectacle" in N.Y (WASHINGTON POST, 4/25). The NBA announced today that Drake "will host" its awards show, which takes place June 26 (AP, 4/25).

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