NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player award
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The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given [1] 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 eleven media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game. The player(s) with the most or ties for the most votes wins the award.[2]
Bob Pettit is the only person to win the All-Star Game MVP four times. Oscar Robertson and Michael Jordan both won the award three times, while Bob Cousy, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James have all won the award twice. Three of the games had joint winners—Elgin Baylor and Bob Pettit in 1959, John Stockton and Karl Malone in 1993, as well as Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan in 2000. The Los Angeles Lakers have had nine winners while the Boston Celtics have had eight. Tim 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.[3] The 2008 NBA All-Star Game winner of this award is LeBron James.[4]
Winners
| † | Denotes player who is still active |
| * | Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Player (X) | Denotes the amount of times the player has been awarded the MVP award |
Notes
- a Because Tim Duncan is a United States citizen by birth, as are all natives of the U.S. Virgin Islands, he was able to play for the U.S. internationally.[6]
References
- General
- "All-Star Game: Year-by-Year Results". NBA.com. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
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- Specific
- ^ a b Steve Popper (1998-02-05). "N.B.A. All-Star Weekend; Macauley's '51 All-Star Honors Came Late (but He's Not Complaining)". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
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{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Bargnani becomes first European top NBA draft pick". People's Daily Online. 2006-06-29. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Maurice Brooks (2008-02-18). "James Improvises an MVP Performance in the Big Easy". NBA.com. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ David Steele (1998-12-09). "NBA Drops All-Stars -- What's Left? February game in Philly latest casualty of lockout". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "All-Time USA Basketball Men's Roster: D". USA Basketball. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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