NBA MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
There are two hot
topics in the NBA: how is the playoff field going to shape up and what
are some 2009 NBA MVP odds and who is going to bring home the Podoloff
Cup.
The Podoloff Cup, named for Maurice Podoloff, the league's first
commissioner, as the its Most Valuable Player award in 1956. The winner
was originally chosen by the NBA players. Since 1981, however, it has
been based on a poll of professional basketball broadcasters and
writers.
The NBA MVP award, which is only for the regular season and does not
include any post-season action, often goes down to the final week.
The 2009 NBA MVP award has been a two player race this season. Those two
players which are playing at a level beyond anyone else are Kobe Bryant
and LeBron James. Kobe, of course, won the coveted award last season and
that has many feeling that it is LeBron’s turn in 2009. If the books are
correct, it will indeed be LeBron taking home the hardware.
MVP Basketball Odds here
| Kobe wins the award in
his 12th NBA season. He averaged 28.3 points 6.3 rebounds and 5.4
assists. The 29-year-old Bryant was a runaway winner of his first
MVP award, receiving 82 first-place votes and 1,100 points to far
outdistance New Orleans' Chris Paul in the voting of 126 media
members. Bryant entered the
season as the league's two-time defending scoring champion. He had
finished as high as third in the MVP voting twice after the 2002-03
season, when he averaged 30 points for the first time, and last year
when Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki won. |
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Dirk Nowitzki of the
Dallas Mavericks was named the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy
as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 2006-07 season.
The nine-year NBA veteran totaled 1,138 points, including 83 first
place votes, from a panel of 129 sportswriters and broadcasters
throughout the United States and Canada. Players were awarded 10
points for each first-place vote, seven points for each second-place
vote, five for third, three for fourth and one for each fifth-place
vote received. |
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Nowitzki is the first
European-born player to win the NBA MVP Award and joins Hakeem Olajuwon
of the Houston Rockets (1993-94), Duncan (2001-02 and 2002-03) and Nash
(2004-05 and 2005-06) on the list of international players that have
captured the Podoloff Trophy.
Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns was named the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 2005-06 season, the NBA announced today. He joins Hall of Famer Magic Johnson as the only point guards in league history to capture multiple MVP trophies and becomes one of only nine players to win the award in consecutive seasons. |
1955-56 - Bob Pettit, St. Louis
1956-57 - Bob Cousy, Boston
1957-58 - Bill Russell, Boston
1958-59 - Bob Pettit, St. Louis
1959-60 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1960-61 - Bill Russell, Boston
1961-62 - Bill Russell, Boston
1962-63 - Bill Russell, Boston
1963-64 - Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati
1964-65 - Bill Russell, Boston
1965-66 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1966-67 - Wilt Chamberlain, Phildadelphia
1967-68 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1968-69 - Wes Unseld, Baltimore
1969-70 - Willis Reed, New York
1970-71 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee
1971-72 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee
1972-73 - Dave Cowens, Boston
1973-74 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee
1974-75 - Bob McAdoo, Buffalo
1975-76 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles
1976-77 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles
1977-78 - Bill Walton, Portland
1978-79 - Moses Malone, Houston
1979-80 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles
1980-81 - Julius Erving, Philadelphia
1981-82 - Moses Malone, Houston
1982-83 - Moses Malone, Philadelphia
1983-84 - Larry Bird, Boston
1984-85 - Larry Bird, Boston
1985-86 - Larry Bird, Boston
1986-87 - Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
1987-88 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1988-89 - Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
1989-90 - Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
1990-91 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1991-92 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1992-93 - Charles Barkley, Phoenix
1993-94 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston
1994-95 - David Robinson, San Antonio
1995-96 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1996-97 - Karl Malone, Utah
1997-98 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1998-99 - Karl Malone, Utah
1999-00 - Shaquille O'Neal, Los Angeles Lakers
2000-01 - Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
2001-02 - Tim Duncan, San Antonio
2002-03 - Tim Duncan, San Antonio
2003-04 - Kevin Garnett, Minnesota
2004-05 - Steve Nash, Phoenix
2005-06 - Steve Nash, Phoenix
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