NBA There are many players who have won the MVP in history. Among the current players are LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic. However, there are players who can win the MVP while being the MVP. But it's rare. After Michael Jordan , only two people have accomplished such a feat. Do you know who else besides James ?
Bill Russell is the first player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP title. After that, Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and others have also won the MVP award. Among them, Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird have achieved the great feat of winning the MVP for three consecutive seasons. However, not many of these players have won consecutive MVPs and won championships. Even Stephen Curry, the only player in NBA history to be unanimously elected MVP, led the team to an NBA record regular season record of 73 wins and 9 losses. In the end, they led 3-1 in the finals but missed the championship.
Russell, Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Bird and Jordan all led the team to win the championship in the season when they won the regular season MVP. However, there are very few players who have accomplished such a feat after Jordan, except for There is only one person besides James. James has won the regular season MVP four times so far, in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. Among them, he led the team to win the championship in 2012 and 2013. When he won the regular season MVP for the second time in 2013, James led the Heat to defeat the Spurs led by Tim Duncan in a tiebreaker in the finals and won the championship.
After Jordan, in addition to the active players mentioned above, there are also Steve Nash and Tim Duncan who have won the regular season MVP. Among the current players who have won consecutive MVPs, except for James, Curry, , Antetokounmpo and Jokic have not led their teams to win championships in consecutive MVP seasons. Nash was the regular season MVP in 2005 and 2006, but for two consecutive years his Suns fell in the Western Conference Finals and were eliminated by the Spurs and Mavericks respectively. Nash didn't even play in his entire NBA career. Being able to stand on the stage of the finals, let alone win the championship.
Duncan defeated Kevin Garnett in the 2003 MVP selection and won the MVP title. In that season, he led the Spurs to the league's first regular season record of 60 wins and 20 losses. In the finals Defeating Nets with a big score of 4-2, he won the second championship in his NBA career and won the FMVP again.
In the minds of many people, Kobe Bryant is the player most like Jordan. James's historical status is expected to be on par with Jordan, but we cannot ignore Duncan when discussing the greatest NBA player after Jordan!
