NBA Awards Watch: James Harden vs. Stephen Curry For MVP

Welcome to Week 23 of NBA Awards Watch, where we take pride in attempting to mix small sample sizes from the past week and season-long projections for the league’s most important award!

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In an effort to make some sense of the wide open 2014-15 MVP race, we’ve taken a look at the top 10 candidates for each and every week of NBA action. Last week, we took an extended look at how the MVP race may have boiled down to James Harden, Stephen Curry and Russell Westbrook.

This week, we’re inching closer toward declaring this a two-horse race. But can Westbrook, Anthony Davis or LeBron James still do anything to catch our top two candidates?

Without further ado, here’s a look at our top 10 MVP candidates for the 2014-15 season so far. But first, the honorable mentions:

Honorable Mentions: Damian Lillard, John Wall, Blake Griffin, Paul Millsap and Zach Randolph

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