What does mvp mean?

MVP itself is an abbreviation, and its full name is the Most Valuable Player Award.

MVP means Most Valuable Player Award. It was awarded by the National Basketball Association of the United States.

The award is named after the first president of NBA, Maurice Podolov, and the MVP trophy of American professional basketball league is called "Maurice Podolov Cup". The selection starts from the season of 1955-56. 1979-80 players vote before the season, 1980-8 1 sports reporters and TV commentators vote during the season.

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As the name implies, MVP is the most valuable player in the regular season. As long as you can lead the team to achieve good results or make breakthroughs in all aspects, you may win such an award. MVP is divided into four categories: regular season MVP, finals MVP, all-star MVP and rookie challenge MVP.

On 20 16, Stephen Curry became the first player in NBA history to be elected MVP by unanimous vote. Only two players won this award in the rookie season, namely wilt chamberlain in 1959- 1960 season and westley Ansel in 1968- 1969 season.

The non-American players who won the award included Nigerian hakeem olajuwon, American Virgin tim duncan, Canadian steve nash, German dirk nowitzki and Greek Yannis Antetokumbo. Duncan is actually an American citizen, but he is regarded as an international player because he was not born in 50 States or Washington.