Stephen Curry is having a fantastic recent 12 hours of his career. Not only did the reigning NBA MVP return to the court last night to put on a virtuoso 40 point performance in a Golden State Warriors win over the Portland Trail Blazers but today he was officially named NBA MVP and named unanimous MVP, the first time in NBA history. Not only that, Curry becomes the 11th player to win back-to-back NBA MVP awards and he joins Magic Johnson and Steve Nash as the only point guard to win the award multiple times.
Following from an official NBA press release.
The Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry, who led the team to the best regular-season record in NBA history, has won the Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Award for the second year in a row, the NBA announced today. He is the first unanimous winner in the award’s 61-season history. Curry, the 11th player to win back-to-back MVP awards, joins Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Steve Nash as the only guards to earn the honor in consecutive seasons.
Curry swept all 131 first-place votes (1,310 points), including 130 from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters in the United States and Canada, and one from the Kia MVP fan vote. The San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard finished second with 634 points, and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James was third with 631 points. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook (486 points) and Kevin Durant (147) rounded out the top five. Players received 10 points for each first-place vote, seven points for each second-place vote, five points for each third-place vote, three points for each fourth-place vote and one point for each fifth-place vote.
