NBA MVP crowned, and for the seventh year in a row to a player born outside USA

The NBA has announced the symbolic five players who have shown the best defense this season.

NBA MVP crowned, and for the seventh year in a row to a player born outside USA

It's now seven straight years that a player born outside the U.S. won MVP, extending the longest such streak in league history.

The Streak of MVP Winners Born Outside The U.S. Continues

Every season from 2007-08 until 2017-18, a player born and from the U.S. was named the league NBA MVP winner. While the game was certainly becoming more international than it previously was, the player voted as the best was constantly coming from someone born in the U.S. Of late, that has not been the case. On Wednesday, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the 2024-25 MVP. He led the league in scoring and helped to guid…

LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Michael Jordan, several of the names that have been awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Player in English, and in Spanish Most Valuable Player) of the NBA, a prize that is awarded each season to the most complete player, the most outstanding and important as far as the regular season is concerned. This award is not available to everyone, so it is considered an honor for those players who are destined in the vast majority o…

And-Ones: Award Announcements, Laughlin, Playoff MVPs, More

After revealing this season’s Most Valuable Player on Wednesday, the NBA will wrap up its 2024/25 award announcements within the next two days. According to the league (Twitter link), the two All-Defensive teams will be announced on Thursday at 2:00 pm Eastern time, while the three All-NBA teams will be unveiled at 7:00 pm ET on Friday during TNT’s pregame broadcast ahead of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The All-NBA teams, in particul…

MVP honors dominated by international NBA players

Kirk Goldsberry plotted MVP winners in the NBA, by nationality. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander from Canada won this year, which makes that seven years in a row for international players. I guess it’s not that surprising now that I think about it. There are a lot of international players. More than anything, it makes me feel old, because it doesn’t seem that long ago when Stephen Curry and LeBron James were the frontrunners each year. Tags: basketball, …