NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award
The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games. Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively.[1] The voting is conducted by a panel of media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game. The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award.[2] No All-Star Game MVP was named in 1999 since the game was canceled due to the league's lockout.[3]
Bob Pettit and Kobe Bryant are the only two players to win the All-Star Game MVP four times. Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neal have each won the award three times, while Bob Cousy, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Allen Iverson, and LeBron James have all won the award twice. James' first All-Star MVP in 2006 made him the youngest to have ever won the award at the age of 21.[4] Four of the games had joint winners—Elgin Baylor and Pettit in 1959, John Stockton and Malone in 1993, O'Neal and Tim Duncan in 2000, as well as Bryant and O'Neal in 2009. O'Neal became the first player in All-Star history to share two MVP awards. The Los Angeles Lakers have had eleven winners while the Boston Celtics have had eight. Duncan of the U.S. Virgin Islands is the only winner not born in the United States. Duncan is an American citizen, but is considered an "international" player by the NBA because he was not born in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C.[5] No player trained entirely outside the U.S. has won the award; Duncan played U.S. college basketball at Wake Forest. The 2011 All-Star Game MVP was Bryant.[6]
Winners
^ |
Denotes player who is still active in the NBA |
* |
Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
Player (X) |
Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the MVP award |
Team (X) |
Denotes the number of times a player from this team has won |
Notes
- a The 1999 All-Star Game was canceled due to the league's lockout.[3]
- b Because Tim Duncan is a United States citizen by birth, as are all natives of the U.S. Virgin Islands,[7] he was able to play for the U.S. internationally.[8]
- c Denotes All-Star Games in which joint winners were named
See also
References
- General
- Specific
- ^ Steve Popper (February 5, 1998). "N.B.A. All-Star Weekend; Macauley's '51 All-Star Honors Came Late (but He's Not Complaining)". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE7DA173DF936A35751C0A96E958260&&scp=6&sq=NBA%20All-Star%20Game%20MVP%20voting&st=cse. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
- ^ Howard-Cooper, Scott (February 12, 1990). "East Stars Put It Together, but Magic Has Hardware Pro basketball: Laker guard earns MVP in losing effort as rest of his West teammates are shut down, 130-113". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59982588.html?dids=59982588:59982588&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+12%2C+1990&author=SCOTT+HOWARD-COOPER&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=1&desc=East+Stars+Put+It+Together%2C+but+Magic+Has+Hardware+Pro+basketball%3A+Laker+guard+earns+MVP+in+losing+effort+as+rest+of+his+West+teammates+are+shut+down%2C+130-113.. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
- ^ a b Steele, David (December 9, 1998). "NBA Drops All-Stars – What's Left? February game in Philly latest casualty of lockout". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications Inc. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/12/09/SP102770.DTL. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
- ^ "King-Sized Rally Propels East to Victory". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/allstar2006/allstar_game/. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
- ^ "Bargnani becomes first European top NBA draft pick". People's Daily Online. June 29, 2006. http://english.people.com.cn/200606/29/eng20060629_278441.html. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
- ^ "Kobe wins 4th MVP in West's All-Star win". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. February 20, 2011. http://www.nba.com/games/20110220/ESTWST/gameinfo.html. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ "Virgin Islands". CIA World Factbook. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vq.html. Retrieved August 12, 2008.
- ^ "All-Time USA Basketball Men's Roster: D". USA Basketball. http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=men_alpha_D. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1950s |
|
|
1960s |
|
|
1970s |
|
|
1980s |
|
|
1990s |
|
|
2000s |
|
|
2010s |
|
|