The Most Valuable Player of the Regular Season is selected by a panel of pro basketball writters and broadcasters since 1981. The MVP winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named that way after the first commissioner of the NBA.
From 1956 to 1980 the winner was selected by the NBA players.
In 2005-06 Steve Nash joined Magic Johnson as the only point guards to have won the award at least twice. Then in 2006-07 Nash's former teammate Dirk Nowitzki became the first European player to win it.
In 2007-08, and after 12 seasons in the NBA, Kobe Bryant won his first MVP award. In 2008-09 Lebron James, who many believe will end his career with multiple MVP awards, got his first. |
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