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Check out the betting odds and expert analysis of the top NBA players and superstars most likely to win MVP during the 2020 All-Star game. Breaking Sports Headlines – NFL, NBA, MLB and More.
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The Most Valuable Player award is handed out in both the American and National League at the conclusion of each Major League Baseball season. The honor goes to the player normally with the best statistics, whether it is a position player or in the rare times, a pitcher.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are still the class of the National League after winning the World Series behind MVP Corey Seager. Mookie Betts was last year's favorite, and enters the 2021 season as the favorite once again.
A couple of Atlanta Braves find their way onto the favorites list, including Ronald Acuna Jr. and last year's NL MVP winner Freddie Freeman. Freeman's win was the first NL first baseman to receive the award since Joey Votto in 2010.
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout enters the 2021 campaign as the odds-on favorite to win the AL MVP. It's not a surprise, as Trout has won the award three times over the past seven seasons. He sees teammate Shohei Ohtani on the favorites list, while Anthony Rendon is not far behind.
Besides the Angels, the New York Yankees also see a few players near the top of the favorites list. The most notable, and player with highest odds, is Aaron Judge. DJ LeMahieu and Gleybar Torres are other Yankees to enter 2021 given odds in the top 10.
Kobe Bryant has won the NBA’s All-Star Game MVP award four times in his career, and he’s surged to favorite status at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com on the odds to pick up that accolade once again on Sunday as he plays in the mid-season contest for the last time.
Bryant, after opening down the list at +700 on the odds to win the All-Star Game MVP award, heads into the weekend as the +135 favorite on those betting lines. The Los Angeles Lakers’ future Hall of Famer is retiring at the end of this season, and will be making his last appearance in the All-Star Game when he takes the court at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.
Bryant won his most recent All-Star Game MVP award in 2011 at home at the Staples Center, in a game the Western Conference won 148-143 over their Eastern counterparts. Bryant was also the MVP of the game in 2002, 2007, and 2009 (as the co-MVP with Shaquille O’Neal).
The Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry, who opened as the All-Star Game MVP favorite at the sportsbooks, is then second at +500 on the updated betting lines, with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James sitting third at +800 along with the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook. Westbrook picked up that MVP award last season at Madison Square Garden in a 163-158 win for the West. James was the MVP of the All-Star Game in both 2006 and 2008.
The Thunder’s Kevin Durant, the MVP of the game in 2012, is at +1000 for this weekend. Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers is back at +5000; Paul was named the MVP in 2013. Raptors Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan are set at +2000 and +2200 odds, respectively.
As for the other events in Toronto this weekend, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Zach LaVine is the clear -300 favorite on the odds to win the Slam Dunk Contest at the sportsbooks. Aaron Gordon of the Orlando Magic is then at +400, with Will Barton of the Denver Nuggets at +550, and Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons rounding out the field at a betting line of +850.
And while Curry was knocked off his perch atop the odds to win the All-Star Game MVP award this weekend he’s still the favorite on the odds to win the Three-Point Contest at -110. Warriors teammate Klay Thompson holds down second-place odds of +450 on that list, while J.J. Redick of the Clippers is third at +500 to take the event as the league’s top sharpshooter.