In the 2020 NBA regular season MVP selection, "Letter Brother" was elected with a greater advantage over LeBron James, making him one of the few players in NBA history to win the regular season MVP. ; However, Antetokounmpo, who led the team to play the league's first regular season record for two consecutive years, has never stood on the stage of the finals, let alone won the championship. In NBA history, who has won the MVP of the regular season but never won the championship, who else besides Antetokounmpo?
Since the 1955-56 season, the NBA has issued regular season MVPs. The first regular season MVP in history was Bob Pettit, and the first regular season MVP was "Lord of the Rings" Bill Lasse You. Russell won the regular season MVP for three consecutive years from 1961 to 1963. What is even more rare is that he led the Celtics to win the championship in all three seasons. It is worth mentioning that Russell is also the player who has won the most championships in NBA history so far, winning 11 times in his NBA career in 13 years.
After Bill Russell, the players who won the regular season MVP successively include Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone. Chamberlain is the second player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP three times in a row. He was elected for three consecutive years from 1966 to 1968, and led the team to win the championship in 1967; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the number of regular season MVP wins in NBA history. The most players. Among them, the Bucks and Lakers have won the regular season MVP again. He has been selected to the All-Star 19 times and has 6 championship rings; Moses Malone was the regular season MVP in 1982 and 1983, of which he ranked second. In the NBA Finals, the 76ers swept the Lakers and won the championship.
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had a brilliant yellow-green battle in the 1980s. Both of them have won the regular season MVP again. Among them, Bird is the third and most recent consecutive in NBA history. A player who won the regular season MVP for 3 years. Throughout his NBA career, Bird won three championships and Magic won five.
If the NBA in the 1980s was a battle between Magic and Bird, then in the 1990s it was Michael Jordan who fought hard. As the player with the second most regular season MVP in NBA history, Jordan was also the only player in the league to win the regular season MVP in the 1990s. Jordan's achievements need not be repeated. He led the team to the finals 6 times and won all the championships, and he never played tie-breaks in the finals, achieving two consecutive championships.
Since the 21st century, 5 players have won the regular season MVP, among which LeBron James has accomplished such a feat twice. Duncan won the regular season MVP in 2003 and led the Spurs to the second championship in team history; James fell in the second round of the playoffs when he won the regular season MVP in 2010, but was elected in 2012 and 2013. The regular season MVP also won the FMVP trophy; Stephen Curry won the regular season MVP in 2016 and was the only player in the long NBA history to be elected as the regular season MVP by unanimous votes, although Curry has advanced to the finals 5 times so far. Not FMVP, but he already has 3 championship rings.
Except for Antetokounmpo, there is only one player in NBA history who has won the regular season MVP and never won, and that is Steve Nash. Nash was the regular season MVP in 2004 and 2005, but the Suns he led fell to the Western Conference Finals for two consecutive years. In his entire NBA career, Nash has never even stood on the stage of the Finals, let alone won the championship. Up.
Nash has no title for life, but no one denies his greatness. This is also an important reason why the Nets hired Nash, who has no coaching experience, as the new head coach. Antetokounmpo, who was born in December 1994, is not yet 26 years old and has a lot of time to prove himself. Now it cannot be said that he will not win the championship. Of course, even if Antetokounmpo will not win the entire NBA career, he has a great NBA career. After all, in NBA history, there are not many players who have won the MVP of the regular season. It is even rarer to win both the MVP and the best defensive player in the same season..
