NBA predictions for the stretch run: MVP, Rookie of the Year and what to watch – Yahoo Sports

With the NBA All-Star break over, teams are heading into the final stretch of the 2021-22 regular season with around 25 or so games remaining.

With that in mind, Yahoo Sports' NBA experts reset their preseason predictions for a number of awards, late-playoff matchups and what will be the most interesting storylines heading into the postseason.

Vincent Goodwill: Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers

Chris Haynes: Chris Paul, Phoenix Suns

Ben Rohrbach: Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers

Odds to win: Embiid is BetMGM's favorite for MVP at +125, followed by Denver's Nikola Jokic at +275 and Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo at +375.

Vincent Goodwill: Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers

Chris Haynes: Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers

Ben Rohrbach: Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers

Odds to win: Mobley is BetMGM's favorite for Rookie of the Year at -350, followed by Oklahoma City's Josh Giddey at +850 and Detroit's Cade Cunningham at +900.

Vincent Goodwill: J.B. Bickerstaff, Cleveland Cavaliers

Chris Haynes: Monty Williams, Phoenix Suns

Ben Rohrbach: Taylor Jenkins, Memphis Grizzlies

Odds to win: Williams is BetMGM's favorite for Coach of the Year at -250, followed by Bickerstaff at +325 and Jenkins at +650.

Vincent Goodwill: Phoenix Suns vs. Golden State Warriors

Chris Haynes: Phoenix Suns vs. Golden State Warriors

Ben Rohrbach: Phoenix Suns vs. Golden State Warriors

Odds to win: The Warriors are BetMGM's favorite to win the West at +175, followed by the Suns at +190 and the Utah Jazz at +600.

Vincent Goodwill: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Miami Heat

Chris Haynes: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Philadelphia 76ers

Ben Rohrbach: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Miami Heat

Odds to win: The Brooklyn Nets and Bucks are BetMGM's favorite to win the East at +280, followed by the 76ers at +350 and the Heat at +500.

Vincent Goodwill: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Golden State Warriors

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Chris Haynes: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Phoenix Suns

Ben Rohrbach: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Golden State Warriors

Odds to win: The Warriors are BetMGM's favorite to win the championship at +425, followed by the Suns at +450 and the Nets at +600.

Vincent Goodwill: Memphis Grizzlies

Chris Haynes: Cleveland Cavaliers

Ben Rohrbach: Los Angeles Lakers

Vincent Goodwill: The battle for playoff positioning in the Eastern Conference. Itll all come down to matchups compared to team excellence, and itll be interesting to see who avoids who in this.

Chris Haynes: Seeing if James Harden and Joel Embiid can succeed together in competing for a championship. The last few months of the season will be telling.

Ben Rohrbach: The jockeying for position in the Eastern Conference playoffs is going to be insane. The Brooklyn Nets would actually benefit from being a seventh or eighth seed, because of Kyrie Irving's vaccination status, and nobody is going to want to be the Nos. 1 or 2 seed as a result. It is going to be brutal, and the fight starts with the road each team lays out for itself over the final 25 games.

Vincent Goodwill: The Brooklyn Nets being a mess.

Chris Haynes: The Los Angeles Lakers are the mess we thought they would be.

Ben Rohrbach: I was wrong about the Lakers in 2019-20, when I said they were wildly overrated, and again in 2020-21, when I said they would repeat as champions, so I'll take a victory lap while I can, since I said they were more pretenders than contenders to start this season. (Now watch them win the title.)

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