NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award

The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is the annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the Participant (s) voted best of This Yearly All-Star Game.

The award was created in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for every year’s game. The team also re-honored players in the two All-Star Games. Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were chosen as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively. The voting is conducted by a panel of media members, who throw their vote following the ending of the game. The participant (s) together with the most votes or ties to the most votes wins the award. No All-Star Game MVP was named in 1999 because the match was canceled as a result of the league’s lockout. As of 2019, the latest recipient is Golden State Warrior forward Kevin Durant.
Bob Pettit and Kobe Bryant will be the only two players to acquire the All-Star Game MVP four occasions. Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal, and LeBron James have won the award three times, while Bob Cousy, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Allen Iverson, Russell Westbrook, and Kevin Durant have won the award twice. James’ first All-Star MVP in 2006 left him the youngest to have won the award at age 21 years, 1 month. Kyrie Irving, winner of the 2014 All-Star Game MVP, is the second-youngest at 21 years, 10 months. They’re notable as being both youngest to win the award, equally as Cleveland Cavaliers. Four of those games had joint champions –Elgin Baylor and Pettit at 1959, John Stockton and Malone at 1993, O’Neal and Tim Duncan in 2000, and O’Neal and Bryant at 2009. O’Neal became the first participant in playoff background to discuss two MVP awards in addition to the first player to win the award with numerous teams. The Los Angeles Lakers have had eleven winners while the Boston Celtics have had eight. Duncan of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Irving of Australia are the only winners never born in the USA. Both Duncan and Irving[a] are American taxpayers, but are considered”global” players by the NBA because they were not born in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C. No participant trained entirely outside the U.S. has won the award; Irving dwelt at the U.S. since age two, and Duncan played U.S. college basketball at Wake Forest.
Bob Pettit (1958, 1959) and Russell Westbrook (2015, 2016) are the only players to win consecutive awards. Pettit (1956), Bob Cousy (1957), Wilt Chamberlain (1960), Bill Russell (1963), Oscar Robertson (1964), Willis Reed (1970), Dave Cowens (1973), Michael Jordan (1988, 1996, 1998), Magic Johnson (1990), Shaquille O’Neal (2000), and Allen Iverson (2001) all won the All-Star Game MVP and the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in precisely the same period; Jordan is the only player to do this multiple times. [7] 14 players have won the award playing for the team which hosted the All-Star Game: Macauley (1951), Cousy (1957), Pettit (1958, 1962), Chamberlain (1960), Adrian Smith (1966), Rick Barry (1967), Jerry West (1972), Tom Chambers (1987), Michael Jordan (1988), Karl Malone (1993), John Stockton (1993), O’Neal (2004, 2009), Bryant (2011) and Davis (2017); Pettit and O’Neal did so multiple times. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has the distinction of playing at the most All-Star Games (18) without winning the All-Star Game MVP, while Adrian Smith won the MVP in his just All-Star Game.

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