<DIV class=articleHeadline>Suns’ Steve Nash Wins<BR>Second Consecutive MVP Award </DIV>
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<P><B>NEW YORK, May 7 –</B> Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns was named the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 2005-06 season, the NBA announced today. He joins Hall of Famer Magic Johnson as the only point guards in league history to capture multiple MVP trophies and becomes one of only nine players to win the award in consecutive seasons.
<P>The 10-year NBA veteran totaled 924 points, including 57 first place votes, from a panel of 125 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Players were awarded 10 points for each first-place vote, seven points for each second-place vote, five for third, three for fourth and one for each fifth-place vote received.
<P>Rounding out the top five in voting for MVP were Cleveland’s LeBron James (688 points), Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki (544 points), the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant (483 points) and Detroit’s Chauncey Billups (430 points).
<P>Nash averaged career highs in points (18.8), rebounds (4.2), minutes (35.5), field goal percentage (.512) and free throw percentage (.921). He posted 3.3 more points per game than last season, the second-largest scoring increase following an MVP season (Larry Bird, 4.5 ppg, 1984-85) in league history. Handing out a league-high 10.5 assists per game, Nash helped six of his teammates to career highs in scoring average.
<P>The 6-3 guard joined Reggie Miller (1993-94), Mark Price (1988-89) and Bird (1986-87, 1987-88) as the only players in league history to shoot at least 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point range (.439) and 90 percent from the free throw line and meet all the statistical minimums.
<P>Nash guided the Suns to their second straight Pacific Division title and a league-high 108.4 points per game despite the absence of three of the team’s top five scorers from last season (Amare Stoudemire, Quentin Richardson and Joe Johnson). A Nash-led team has topped the league in scoring for five consecutive seasons, making Nash the first player to be part of the league’s highest scoring squad for five straight years since Alex English and Dan Issel led the Nuggets from 1980-85.
<P>The NBA MVP trophy is named in honor of the late Maurice Podoloff, the first commissioner of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.
<P>Below are the voting results for the 2005-06 NBA Most Valuable Player Award:
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<TD>1st </TD>
<TD>2nd </TD>
<TD>3rd </TD>
<TD>4th </TD>
<TD>5th </TD>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/steve_nash/index.html">Steve Nash</A>, Phoenix </TD>
<TD>57 </TD>
<TD>32 </TD>
<TD>20 </TD>
<TD>8 </TD>
<TD>6 </TD>
<TD>924 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/lebron_james/index.html">LeBron James</A>, Cleveland </TD>
<TD>16 </TD>
<TD>41 </TD>
<TD>33 </TD>
<TD>23 </TD>
<TD>7 </TD>
<TD>688 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/dirk_nowitzki/index.html">Dirk Nowitzki</A>, Dallas </TD>
<TD>14 </TD>
<TD>22 </TD>
<TD>25 </TD>
<TD>36 </TD>
<TD>17 </TD>
<TD>544 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kobe_bryant/index.html">Kobe Bryant</A>, LA Lakers </TD>
<TD>22 </TD>
<TD>11 </TD>
<TD>18 </TD>
<TD>22 </TD>
<TD>30 </TD>
<TD>483 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/chauncey_billups/index.html">Chauncey Billups</A>, Detroit </TD>
<TD>15 </TD>
<TD>13 </TD>
<TD>22 </TD>
<TD>18 </TD>
<TD>25 </TD>
<TD>430 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/dwyane_wade/index.html">Dwyane Wade</A>, Miami </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>3 </TD>
<TD>4 </TD>
<TD>9 </TD>
<TD>19 </TD>
<TD>87 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/elton_brand/index.html">Elton Brand</A>, LA Clippers </TD>
<TD>1 </TD>
<TD>1 </TD>
<TD>2 </TD>
<TD>3 </TD>
<TD>14 </TD>
<TD>50 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/tim_duncan/index.html">Tim Duncan</A>, San Antonio </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>2 </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>6 </TD>
<TD>1 </TD>
<TD>33 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/tony_parker/index.html">Tony Parker</A>, San Antonio </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>1 </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>4 </TD>
<TD>9 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/allen_iverson/index.html">Allen Iverson</A>, Philadelphia </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>1 </TD>
<TD>1 </TD></TR>
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<TD><A href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/shawn_marion/index.html">Shawn Marion</A>, Phoenix </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>- </TD>
<TD>1 </TD>
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<P>내쉬가 말 그대로 '압도적' 인 득표차이를 보여주면서 백투백 MVP가 됐네요.</P>
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<P>매직 존슨 이후 최초의 2회 수상 가드 MVP라고 하는것 같은데요..</P>
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<P>내쉬&피닉스 팬분들 축하드립니다. ^^;;</P>
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첫댓글 당연히 받을 선수가 받았다고 생각합니다! 르브론, 노비, 코비, 천시도 엄청난 활약해줬지만 역시나 아마레 없는 피닉스를 이끌고 놀라운 성적을 이끌어낸 내쉬에게 표가 많이 갔군요! 암튼 왕 축하! 반면 매트릭스 달랑 1점 (-_-)
우리 카페에서 다들 빌럽스가 대세라고 했었던거 같은데........흠......내쉬.......스탁턴, 페이튼, 키드조차 한번도 수상하지 못한 MVP를 2연패 하다니 덜덜덜
울 카페에선 내쉬가 대세였죠 ㅎㅎ
내쉬가 대세였어요,,그랜트님께서 자유칼럼에 작성하셨던 글 이후로 약간 천시쪽으로도 반응이 있었지만
1위2위간 격차가좀 심하군요...르브론도 받을만했는데 아쉽네요!
던컨..ㅠㅠ
코비 81점 넣을땐 정말 MVP라고 그러더니...결국엔 내쉬가.. 좀 코비팬으로 아쉽네..ㅎ
근데 님하 아이디는 ㅋㅋㅋ
매직 이후의 포인트가드죠- ㅋㅋ 축하-
첫표의 수상자가 많이 갈릴거라서 두번째 표에서 승부가 날거라 했는데;; 다뻥이였군요 낚였내 ㅎㅎ
내쉬 압도적이네요...;; ^^
축하하오~내쉬! ㅎ
축하합니다 내에~쉬 .. 요새 많이 늙는거 같던데.. 오래오래 플레이 하게 몸챙기삼~^^.. 키드사마도 몬 타본 mvp 캬 ~ 대단하다 센스쟁이 ㅋㅋ
내쉬의 MVP2연패에 엄청 기쁘네요. ㅎㅎㅎ 허나, 준우승을 두번이나 했던 키드가 한번도 못탔건 정말 타이밍상 너무 운이 없었음. ㅡ.ㅡ 그때는 오닐이 개인기록상 건재했고, 던컨은 붕붕 날고 있었으니, 포인트가드가 타기는 정말 힘들었겠죠.
mvp가 죄다 서부에서 나오네여..ㅡㅡ; 르브론이 유일한 희망이네..