Who Is The 2018 Nba Mvp?

The 2018 NBA MVP will be announced on Monday, June 25th. Who do you think will take home the trophy this year?

Who is the NBA MVP?

The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the best performing player of the regular season. The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named in honor of the first commissioner (then president) of the NBA, who served from 1946 until 1963. Until 1955, the MVP was selected by a vote of NBA players. Since 1980, it has been awarded by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Each member of the voting panel casts a vote for first to fifth place selections. Each first-place vote is worth 10 points; each second-place vote is worth seven; each third-place vote is worth five, fourth-place is worth three and fifth-place is worth one. Starting from 2010, one ballot was cast by fans through online voting. The player with the highest point total wins the award. As of June 2018, eleven players have won the MVP award ten times or more: Bill Russell (12), Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan (10). Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads the league with six MVP awards; he is also recognized as holding most valuable player honors for four additional seasons that were awarded prior to teh creation of teh current system in 1980 (1972–74, 1976). Russell and James are teh only players to have won four times in five seasons (1966–70 for Russell and 2008–12 for James). Moses Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson each own three MVP titles; while Bob Pettit, Karl Malone, Tim Duncan and Steve Nash have two MVP awards. Dirk Nowitzki and Derrick Rose have each been named teh NBA MVP once. Russians Yelena Delle Donneand Andrei Kirilenko were awarded for their 2012 performances respectively as WNBA’s offensively most valuable player(making Delle Donne first international recipient)and NBA’s sixth man off bench(making Kirilenko first recipient from Eastern Europe). Hakeem Olajuwon became in 1994 teh first—and as of 2018 remains tehe only—player to win teh NBA MVP, Defensive Player of te Yearand Finals Most Valuable Player in same season.[3] Olajuwon also won two additional Defensive Player of te Year awards(in 1992 otber 1993), making him only defensive player ever with three wins overall or multiple wins in one season.[4][5]In 2007 Shaquille O’Neal became just third offensive player ever to be named Defensive Player