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	NBA Tickets - NBA News
		The NBA Most Improved Player Award is awarded to the most improved player.
		The NBA Coach of the Year Award is awarded to either the best coach in the league or the coach that has made the most positive difference to a team.
		The NBA Most Valuable Player Award is given to player deemed the most valuable for that season.
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	Spurs Carrer 1989-2003
		Robinson was fifth in the NBA in field goal percentage, led the team in steals and was second on the club behind Duncan in scoring, rebounding and blocks.
		Robinson was named NBA Player of the Month for March after averaging 28.2 points, 10.9 rebounds, and 4.19 blocks and leading the Spurs to a 14-2 record, the team’s best month ever.
		Robinson also was the first player in NBA history to rank among the top five in rebounding, blocks, and steals in a single season.
	members.fortunecity.com /stefnba/robinson/spurs_career.htm (3061 words)

	NBA.com Steve Nash Named 2004-05 NBA MVP
		Players were awarded 10 points for each first-place vote, seven points for each second-place vote, five for third, three for fourth and one for each fifth-place vote received.
		He is also the fourth player in NBA history to lead the league in assists and win the MVP award in the same season (Cousy, Robertson and then Johnson in 1986-87).
		The NBA MVP trophy is named in honor of the late Maurice Podoloff, the first commissioner of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.
	www.nba.com /news/nash_mvp_050508.html (707 words)

	Nba Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Isiah Thomas controversy nba award and the fierce Celtic-Laker rivalry.
		NBA Rookie of the Year Award - The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year Award, first given after the 1947-1948 NBA season, is given to the top first-year player in the league.
		Steven Spielberg, the most realistic soccer teams from high school in 1900 without realizing she was further honored with pioneering the American Revolution, it also those of the ball; the heart of Review, the roads.
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	The Washington Informer: Sports
		The NBA Finals have been a showcase of the best basketball players in the world, and the word “world" has special significance now considering that the Detroit Pistons and the San Antonio Spurs have eight “International Players" on their 12-man rosters.
		This amounts to 360 active players in the NBA (77 of which are International Players, amounting to 21% of all NBA players).
		The implications of the effect of International Players in the NBA for the many African American youth who hope to get a roster spot on an NBA team should be obvious.
	www.washingtoninformer.com /SPNBAFinals2005June20.html (440 words)

	Official Kevin Garnett Website - Profile
		Already one of the NBA's most talented players for several years, Garnett raised his game to an even higher level in 2003-04 and earned the NBA Most Valuable Player Award.
		Garnett did it all in his ninth NBA season, leading the Minnesota Timberwolves to their best-ever regular season record (58-24), first division title and first series triumphs in the playoffs (a 4-1 first round victory over Denver and a 4-3 conference semifinal win over Sacramento).
		Although an increasing number of players, including LeBron James in 2003, have made the jump from high school to the NBA, K.G. set the table for them when he became the first player in more than 20 years to be drafted directly out of high school.
	www.kevingarnett.com /profile.aspx (599 words)

	ESPN.com - NBA Playoffs 2003 - Spurs center repeats as MVP of league
		Writers and broadcasters from the 29 NBA cities voted on the MVP award, sending their ballots in at the conclusion of the regular season.
		He was supposed to be on the 2000 Olympic team a year after winning the NBA championship with the Spurs, but an injury forced him to withdraw from the squad that won the gold medal in Sydney.
		Duncan, 27, is a five-time All-Star and was chosen Most Valuable Player of the 1999 NBA Finals.
	sports.espn.go.com /nba/playoffs2003/story?id=1548677 (413 words)

	NBA Playoffs 2001 - Iverson shortest player in history to win MVP
		The award caps an amazing turnaround for Iverson, who was nearly traded last summer because of his contentious relationship with Brown.
		He earned MVP honors in the All-Star game after his 25-point performance led the East back from a 21-point deficit, was NBA Player of the Month for January and was Player of the Week twice.
		He was fined $5,000 by the NBA for shouting a derogatory remark about gays toward taunting fans in a game on Jan. 28.
	espn.go.com /nba/playoffs2001/2001/0514/1198271.html (1007 words)

	Biography David Robinson San Antonio Spurs
		He's the only male basketball player to represent the United States in three Olympics, having done so in 1988, 1992 and 1996, and was chosen as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history.
		The result was the most effective Twin Towers (RobinsonandDuncan) in NBA history and the NBA Title, he won another title in 2003.
		David was selected as the number one NBA Draft pick in 1987 by the San Antonio Spurs, but he was forced to sit out two seasons after graduation as he served in the Navy from June 1987 to May 1989 at Kings Bay, Georgia.
	members.fortunecity.com /stefnba/robinson/davids_bio.htm (1084 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award
		The most recent recipient was Steve Nash for 2005-06, the first Canadian and third foreign-born player to win the award, as well as being his second consecutive MVP honour.
		In contrast to other leagues, every player to win the NBA's MVP award has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, except for players who won the award after 1993-94 and are not yet eligible for induction.
		In the last 25 years, only players from teams with 50 or more wins have won the award, all but assuring that the MVP will be from a playoff-bound team.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award (362 words)

	Basketball Player Kareem Abdul Jabaar
		His list of personal and team accomplishments is perhaps the most awesome in league history: Rookie of the Year, member of six NBA championship teams, six-time NBA MVP, two-time NBA Finals MVP, 19-time All-Star, two-time scoring champion, and a member of the NBA 35th and 50th Anniversary All-Time Teams.
		Players 10 years his junior couldn't keep up with Abdul-Jabbar, whose strict physical-fitness regimen was years ahead of its time in the NBA.
		In 1971-72 he repeated as scoring champion (34.8 ppg) and NBA Most Valuable Player, and the Bucks repeated as division leaders for the second of four straight years.
	www.brooksinternational.com /kareem_abdul_jabaar.htm (2198 words)

	Phoenix Suns, Amare Stoudemire, Jim Jackson, Joe Johnson, National Basketball Association - CBS SportsLine.com
		The new-look, up-tempo team averaged 110 points per game, the most in the NBA in a decade.
		The Suns shattered the NBA record for 3-pointers in a season.
		In some ways, the award is a distraction.
	cbs.sportsline.com /nba/story/8452719 (755 words)

	deseretnews.com \| It's official: Nash gets MVP
		The gesture was befitting of a player who earned the trophy by getting everybody involved, and making his team a 62-game winner — 33 more victories than the previous season.
		In the MVP voting, players received 10 points for a first-place vote, seven for second, five for third, three for fourth and one for fifth.
		Nash is the first player to lead the league in assists (11.5) and be named MVP since Johnson in 1987, and the second Phoenix player to win the award.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600132535,00.html (745 words)

	NBA Greatest Players - All Time greatest NBA Basketball Players
		He won the NBA Most Valuable Player award while playing for the defending NBA champion Trail Blazers in 1977-78.
		But dozens of injuries, most infamously a chronically broken bone in his left foot, robbed Walton of the storybook career that seemed sure to be his.
		The cellar-dwelling Blazers had finished with the second-worst record in the league in 1973-74, and Portland fans were thrilled at the arrival of a potential franchise player.
	www.hollywoodsportsbook.com /nbagreats/nbagreatest_bwalton.cfm (2492 words)

	National Basketball Association Finals Most Valuable Player Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Basketball Association Finals Most Valuable Player Award is presented to the National Basketball Association (NBA) player in the NBA Finals that is seen as contributing the most to his team in the series.
		The award typically goes to a player on the winning team, though when it was originally awarded to Jerry West in 1969, West's Lakers team had come up short against the Boston Celtics.
		Magic Johnson is the youngest player and only rookie to be named the NBA Finals MVP at the age of 20 years old in the 1980 NBA Finals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award (233 words)

	TSN : NBA - Canada's Sports Leader
		Nash's MVP award is one of the biggest accomplishments in Canadian sport history, vaulting him into a lofty group of Canuck sport stars that includes Mike Weir, Masters champion in 2003, race-car driver Jacques Villeneuve, who won the F1 world championship in 1997, and Larry Walker, who collected National League MVP honours in 1997.
		The NBA assist leader at 11.5 a game, Nash is the sixth guard to win the award, joining Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson.
		This might be the most unlikely award for a Cdn to...
	www.tsn.ca /nba/news_story.asp?id=124292 (1554 words)

	Steve Nash Day 2 after NBA MVP acclaim
		We encourage our players to want to be good, but when one of our own makes it to the NBA, and then becomes the best player in the league, it's got to be inspiring for every kid who plays basketball," said Triano.
		Because of the rigours of the NBA and the wear-tear on his body from a decade of playing year-round, Nash says he's likely played his last game for the national team.
		As Nash was being presented with the award, he requested that his teammates join him on the podium.
	www.frozenhoops.com /id217.html (2623 words)

	USATODAY.com - Nash takes home second straight MVP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He is the ninth player to win consecutive MVP trophies and joins Magic Johnson as the only point guards to win the award more than once.
		The 32-year-old Nash is the 11th player to win the MVP award more than once.
		Others who have won consecutive MVP awards are: Tim Duncan, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Moses Malone, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/suns/2006-05-07-nash-mvp_x.htm (815 words)

	MVP race down to the wire
		The race for the NBA's 50th MVP is too close to call.
		Nash would be the first player to win the award a year after not receiving even one point on a ballot, which requires voters to list their top five players.
		The last player to win MVP and not lead his team in scoring was Boston's Dave Cowens in 1973.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0505nash05050.html (771 words)

	Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash, Shaquille O'Neal, National Basketball Association - CBS SportsLine.com
		The gesture was befitting of a player who earned the trophy by getting everybody involved and making his team a 62-game winner -- 33 more victories than the previous season.
		The Suns point guard edged Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal by 34 points to win the award, the fourth-closest margin since the media began determining the winner in 1980-81.
		The camaraderie that developed was evident in the news conference Sunday, when Nash, known for his wardrobe of mostly torn jeans and sweat shirts, was kidded by his teammates about the dress shirt he wore untucked with blue jeans.
	cbs.sportsline.com /nba/story/8455363 (681 words)

	NBA Roundup: Suns' Nash wins MVP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The award will be announced tomorrow, and the league office has been silent regarding details of the announcement.
		Nash becomes the first player since Dave Cowens of the Boston Celtics in 1972-73 to win the MVP award without leading his team in scoring.
		The newspaper surveyed 106 of the 127 writers and broadcasters who voted for the league's 50th MVP award and found that Nash had 53 first-place votes to O'Neal's 51.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05127/500703.stm (554 words)

	NBA MVP: Fantastic four
		The NBA Most Valuable Player award is designed for perhaps more worthy candidates, those who elevate their game to a special level and catapult their team toward the league's upper echelon.
		I don't think anybody in the NBA is playing the way he's playing and his team is doing what they're doing.
		While James and Anthony were the more heralded players in the 2003 draft, Wade has emerged as the most versatile and his team has enjoyed the most success.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /basketball/262834_sonx14.html (1412 words)

	National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, named in honor of the first president of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.
		The winner is selected by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters from the United States and Canada, near the end of the regular season.
		[1] In the last 25 years, only players from teams with 50 or more wins have won the award, all but assuring that the MVP will be from a playoff-bound team.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award (344 words)

	Archives: Story
		Stan Van Gundy, coach of the player he bettered in the fourth closest margin of victory in the history of NBA most valuable player voting, called the result "beyond ludicrous."
		The NBA assist leader, Nash led his team to more wins than any other team.
		I think he won this award not only for his role on the team, but for his role in this league.
	www.irontontribune.com /articles/2005/05/09/sports/sports236.txt (424 words)

	CNN/SI - NBA Basketball - Utah's Malone wins second MVP award - Friday June 04, 1999 12:14 AM
		Posted: Friday June 04, 1999 12:14 AM Karl Malone was the third-best scorer in the NBA and made the all-defensive first team.
		Malone, who also won the award in 1997, is the ninth player to win the MVP award twice.
		It comes at the conclusion of a 12-month span in which Malone wrestled Dennis Rodman on pay-per-view, started a short-lived talk radio show, vowed to never again play for the Jazz and then returned, all but promising to finish his career in Utah.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/nba/news/1999/06/03/malone_mvp (595 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Basketball - NBA: Meet the contenders
		Hopefully Canadians will make a bigger deal of Steve Nash winning the NBA's most valuable player award than we did when baseball's Larry Walker was named the National League's MVP eight years ago.
		Be that as it may, basketball is a team game, and no NBA team has been better this season than the Suns, with Nash as their speedy quarterback.
		Shaq is the most dominant player in the league, without question, and he has been for several years.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Basketball/NBA/2005/04/19/1003605.html (1251 words)

	Barkley Headlines 2006 Basketball Hall Of Fame Class - NBA
		He is a member of the NBA's 50th anniversary team and won the 1993 NBA Most Valuable Player award.
		Wilkins, better known as "The Human Highlight Film," played the majority of his NBA career with the Atlanta Hawks and was a nine-time NBA All-Star and a two-time NBA Slam Dunk champion.
		Dumars, who played his entire NBA career in Detroit, was a six-time All-Star and helped the Pistons to back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990.
	www.kcci.com /nba/8437908/detail.html (724 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Garnett wins first NBA MVP award
		Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves won his first NBA Most Valuable Player award Monday, easily beating two-time winner Tim Duncan and Jermaine O'Neal.
		He joined Larry Bird as the only players to average at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and five assists for five consecutive years.
		The success of players such as Garnett, nicknamed "The Kid," and Kobe Bryant helped usher in a generation of preps-to-pros players who skipped college.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20040503-1219-bkn-nbamvp.html (370 words)

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