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The NBA 2024-25 MVP race features a string of new names amid what has been a league-altering trade deadline. With weeks left for the All-Star break in San Francisco, the MVP race tightens even as ...

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Below is look at NBA Most Improved Player ... won 13 of the past 20 MIP awards. No true center has won since Jermaine O'Neal in 2002. MIP has tended to favor players making "the leap" to stardom ...

Memphis Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. continues to stack up the awards. This time, he's adding a new one. Jackson was named the NBA's Western Conference Player of the Week for the first time ...

Russell Westbrook's tenure with the Denver Nuggets has served as a platformer for redemption. Given these factors, Westbrook is now a deserving candidate for the NBA Most Improved Player award.

He won six NBA championships. He won a record six NBA Most Valuable Player awards. At retirement, he owned the career scoring record. Teammates simply called him "Cap," short for captain ...

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Prior to making an NBA futures wager on which player will take home the Defensive Player of the Year award in 2024-25, check out the odds outlined below, including the favorites like Victor ...

and Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Award recipients Kevin Durant (2007), Stephen Curry (2009), James Harden (2009), Russell Westbrook (2009), Giannis Antetokounmpo (2014) and Nikola Jokić (2015).

It’s a bit of an odd award, to be sure. Since the 1985-86 season, the NBA has handed out the Most Improved Player Award, now known as the George Mikan Trophy. It’s designed to reward a player ...