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No. 2 (tie) - Michael Jordan, 5 MVP awards
Even though many hail Michael Jordan as the undisputed greatest player in NBA history, the six-time champion is not the player with most NBA MVP trophies won.
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Jordan won the NBA MVP five times during his 15-year career. 'His Airness' won his first MVP at the end of the 1987-88 NBA season. In that year, he also became the first player to win the NBA MVP and the Defensive Player of the Year award, and the first to do it in the same season.
His other four NBA MVP awards came in the 1990-91, 1991-92, 1995-96 and 1997-98 NBA seasons.
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No. 2 (tie) - Bill Russell, 5 MVP awards
Bill Russell is well-known for winning a whopping 11 NBA titles in his 13-year career. He also took five NBA MVP trophies in his glorious career and was the all-time leader in MVPs at the time of his retirement in 1969.
Russell was also the first player in NBA history to win it in three consecutive years (from 1960-61 to 1962-63) and the first to win four NBA MVPs in a five-year stretch.
The legendary Russell took one of the most impressive NBA MVP wins in history in the 1961-62 NBA season. In that year, Wilt Chamberlain averaged the unbreakable record of 50.4 points per game. Moreover, Oscar Robertson became the first player to average a triple-double for an entire season. Still, both came behind Russell in the players' voting for the NBA MVP.
No. 1 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 6 MVP awards
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's basketball career, even before the NBA, is full of unbelievable stats. Kareem is the all-time leader in points scored in NBA history with 38,387 and he won six NBA championships with two different franchises, twice being named Finals MVP.
Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time leader in NBA MVP trophies won with six. He won his six trophies with the Milwaukee Bucks (three) and the LA Lakers (three). All of Kareem's NBA MVP awards came during the era in which the players voted.
Kareem also is the only player in NBA history to win the award in a year in which his team – the Lakers – did not make the NBA Playoffs (1975-76).
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