National Basketball Association Awards
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The National Basketball Association's Most Improved Player Award is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1985–86 NBA season, to the most improved player of the regular season. The winner is selected by a panel of sportswriters throughout the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 29 different players. The most recent award winner was Goran Dragić. None of the award winners have won an NBA Championship as a player, however in 2011 Darrell Armstrong won the title as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks. Hedo Türkoğlu, Rony Seikaly, Gheorghe Mureşan, Boris Diaw, and Goran Dragić are the only award winners not born in the United States; all but Seikaly were also trained completely outside the U.S..
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Check all the winners of NBA Most Improved Player Award presented under National Basketball Association Awards since 1986 .
