National Basketball Association Awards
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The Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1969 NBA Finals. The award is decided by a panel of nine media members, who cast vote after the conclusion of the final round. The person with the highest votes wins the award. In at least one NBA Finals, fans balloting on NBA.com accounted for the tenth vote. Originally, the award was a black trophy with a gold basketball-shaped sphere at the top, similar to the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy, until a smaller trophy was introduced in 2005.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 28 different players. Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA Championships from 1991 to 1993 and 1996 to 1998, is the only player to win the award more than three times, having won six. Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and Tim Duncan all won the award three times in their careers while Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James won the award twice. Jordan and O'Neal are the only players to win the award in three consecutive seasons. Olajuwon, Bryant, and James have won the award in two consecutive seasons.
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Check all the winners of Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award presented under National Basketball Association Awards since 1969 .
