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NBA Awards: Finals MVPs, Summary of Winners

This is the complete list with all the winners of the NBA Finals MVP,

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NBA Awards: Finals Most Valuable Player

 
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan

6 times NBA Finals MVP

The Finals Most Valuable Player award was stablished in 1969, 14 years after the first Regular Season MVP. That first Finals MVP trophy went to the hands of Jerry West, who was so good that won the award despite the fact that the Lakers lost those Finals. He was the first and only player selected from the lossing team, after that the award always went to the best player of the winning team.

Some facts: Michael Jordan leads all players with 6 Finals MVP's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the only one to win the MVP with 2 different teams. The players still active from this list are Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal, Chauncey Billups, Dwyane Wade, Tony Parker, Paul Pierce and the reigning MVP Kobe Bryant.

 

About the NBA Finals MVP: MVP Year by Year / MVP by Player / MVP by Team

This is the complete list of players that won the NBA Finals MVP

MVP's Players Team
6 Michael Jordan all with the Chicago Bulls
3 Magic Johnson all with the Los Angeles Lakers
3 Shaquille O'Neal all with the Los Angeles Lakers
3 Tim Duncan all with the San Antonio Spurs
2 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1) 1 with the Los Angeles Lakers
    1 with the Milwaukee Bucks
2 Larry Bird all with the Boston Celtics
2 Kobe Bryant all with the Los Angeles Lakers
2 Hakeem Olajuwon all with the Houston Rockets
2 Willis Reed all with the New York Knicks
1 Bill Walton with the Portland Trail Blazers
1 Cedric Maxwell with the Boston Celtics
1 Chauncey Billups with the Detroit Pistons
1 Dennis Johnson with the Seattle SuperSonics
1 Dwyane Wade with the Miami Heat
1 Isiah Thomas with the Detroit Pistons
1 James Worthy with the Los Angeles Lakers
1 Jerry West with the Los Angeles Lakers
1 Joe Dumars with the Detroit Pistons
1 John Havlicek with the Boston Celtics
1 JoJo White with the Boston Celtics
1 Moses Malone with the Philadelphia 76ers
1 Paul Pierce with the Boston Celtics
1 Rick Barry with the Golden State Warriors
1 Tony Parker with the San Antonio Spurs
1 Wes Unseld with the Washington Bullets
1 Wilt Chamberlain with the Los Angeles Lakers

(1) Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after the 1970-71 season. He won one Finals MVP as Lew Alcindor and 1 as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


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