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Michael Jordan won the NBA MVP five times. Derrick Rose became the youngest player to ever win the award at age 22. LeBron James is a four-time NBA MVP. Stephen Curry won back-to-back MVP awards in 2014–15 and 2015–16. He is the first unanimous MVP selection in league history. [19] Giannis Antetokounmpo won back-to-back MVP awards in 2018 ...
A series win gave the Celtics their 18th championship, one more than the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in NBA history. [6] Their last win was in the 2008 NBA Finals. This is the Celtics' third Finals appearance where they played a team from Texas, as they previously defeated the Houston Rockets in the 1981 and 1986 Finals. [7] [8]
USA TODAY Sports and USA TODAY Network staff make their predictions for the 2024-25 NBA season, which kicks off Tuesday night. ... and no America-born player has won MVP since James Harden in 2018.
Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player on Wednesday. Jokic, who also took home the honor in 2021 and 2022, is just the ninth player in league history to claim ...
Which gives us a chance to appreciate the mad genius of Mazzulla, who currently owns the best win-loss percentage (.738) in NBA history — by a lot. (Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports Illustration ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who won twice in 1971 and 1985, holds the record for the longest gap between awards Magic Johnson is the only player to win the award as a rookie. Michael Jordan has won the award a record six times. Shaquille O'Neal is the only player other than Michael Jordan to have won the award three times consecutively.
But he fell just short of All-NBA (he was 16th in voting and top 15 make All-NBA), averaging 23.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals. He shot 49.9% from the field and 35.4% on 3s ...
Antetokounmpo is the first player ever to average 30 points per game on 60% shooting from the field; he adds 11.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game (a career-high!) just for fun.He ranks in the ...