who won the most nba finals mvp awards?
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Michael Jordan is a record six-time award winner. Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan and LeBron James won the award three times in their careers.
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Legendary Moments In NBA History: Unseld wins MVP, Rookie of the Year in 1969. Wes Unseld and Wilt Chamberlain are the only players to win both awards during the same season. ... He remains only the second player in NBA history to accomplish the feat (joining Wilt Chamberlain, who accomplished it in 1960).
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The number of championships won by NBA superstars is often used as a measurement of their greatness. Boston Celtics center Bill Russell holds the record for the most NBA championships won with 11 titles during his 13-year playing career. He won his first championship with the Boston Celtics in his rookie year.
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Magic Johnson has the highest per game wins on the list—only Larry Bird and LeBron James come close.
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The majority of the 1990s was marked by the supremacy of the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls, led by head coach Phil Jackson and star players Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, won six titles in six Finals appearances from 1991 to 1998.
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Hall of Famer Bill Russell sets the standard, having appeared in 10 straight Finals. He also hold the record for most years in Finals with 12 and most games played in Finals with 70. The Celtics won eight straight championships from 1959–66. Overall, the team has 21 NBA Finals appearances with 17 titles.
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Jordan, Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Kevin Garnett are the only Defensive Player of the Year winners to have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) during their careers; Jordan and Olajuwon won both awards in the same season.
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Curry, as you may have heard, has never won a Finals MVP award. ... With two-time Finals MVP winner Kevin Durant's health uncertain entering the Warriors' series against the Raptors, this appears to be Curry's latest, greatest chance.
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["Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the National Basketball Association's all-time leading scorer who helped lead the Los Angeles Lakers to five championships and the Milwaukee Bucks to another. ... ", 'Ellen DeGeneres. ... ', 'Richard Garwin. ... ', 'Frank Gehry. ... ', 'Tom Hanks. ... ', 'Michael Jordan. ... ', 'Lorne Michaels. ... ', 'Eduardo Padrón.']
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Bill Russell holds the record for the most championships won by a player in NBA history with 11. Russell played his entire career with the Celtics and won the NBA title in all but two years he played.
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Magic Johnson, a Hall of Famer and the greatest point guard in NBA history, wore No. 32 for the entirety of a 13-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five championships and earning three MVP awards en route to a dozen All-Star nods.
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Jordan was the NBA's most valuable player five times, and many believe he should have won even more. ... By any calculation, Jordan is the greatest scorer the league has ever seen. He won a record 10 scoring titles, and boasted a career average of 30.1 points per game, the most in NBA history.
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The Warriors have won five NBA championships (1956, 1975, 2015, 2017, and 2018) and one Basketball Association of America (BAA) title (1947).
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Until the 1979–80 season, the MVP was selected by a vote of NBA players. Since the 1980–81 season, the award is decided 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.
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['Karl Malone: 14-time All-Star. ... ', 'Michael Jordan: 14-time All-Star. ... ', 'LeBron James: 15-time All-Star. ... ', "Shaquille O'Neal: 15-time All-Star. ... ", 'Kevin Garnett: 15-time All-Star. ... ', 'Tim Duncan: 15-time All-Star. ... ', 'Kobe Bryant: 18-time All-Star. ... ', 'Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 19-time All-Star.']
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Harden now has five career games in which he has scored 50 points and finished with a triple-double, the most in NBA history. According to Basketball Reference, Russell Westbrook (3), Elgin Baylor (2) and Wilt Chamberlain (2) are the only other players who have done it multiple times.
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Hall of Famer Bill Russell sets the standard, having appeared in 10 straight Finals. He also hold the record for most years in Finals with 12 and most games played in Finals with 70.