How difficult is it to be a unanimous FMVP? Curry Kobe only once, James and Jordan dominated the front

In the just-concluded 2024-2025 season, the Thunder, who won the championship, undoubtedly became the final winner, and Alexander, the team's star, became the player with the greatest gains this season. In the regular season, Alexander was already the MVP+ scoring leader, in the end, Alexander was successfully elected as FMVP with his performance averaging 30.3 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 1.9 steals and 1.6 blocks in the finals. The last player who won the MVP+FMVP+ scoring leader in a single season was O'Neal in 2000.

In addition, Alexander was elected unanimously after winning the FMVP, which shows how strong his dominance in the finals is. You should know that Leonard, who led the Raptors to win the championship in 2019, was unable to be elected unanimously. As a result, Alexander has tied Curry and Kobe. They have both had the experience of being elected FMVP unanimously in their careers. However, compared to them, the young Alexander still has the opportunity to continue to break his own records in the future, especially considering the chips held by the Thunder, even if they win the championship, they have the chance to continue to strengthen this offseason. Therefore, at present, the Thunder is undoubtedly the biggest favorite to compete for the championship next season.

In the past, in NBA history, only 5 players have been elected as FMVP many times. Among them, Olajuwon, as one of the strongest centers in history, has also won the list. In the 1990s, Olajuwon led the Rockets to the championship twice, and in those two finals, he played a very dominant personal performance. In the 1994 Finals, Olajuwon led the Rockets to defeat his opponent with a 4-3 score. During this period, he averaged 26.9 points per game and shot 50% from the field. In addition, Olajuwon also completely suppressed Ewing on the defensive end. The latter averaged only 18.9 points per game and shot as low as 36.3% under his restrictions.

By the 1994-1995 season, due to the poor performance of the Rockets in the regular season, the outside world was not optimistic that they could defend their title. However, in the playoffs, Olajuwon brought the Rockets to regain competitiveness, and in the end they returned to the finals. Faced with the young Magic, Olajuwon taught his opponent a lesson. In this round of series, he averaged 33 points, 10.3 rebounds, 2.8 blocks, and shot 53.1% from the field. With his all-out efforts, the Rockets successfully swept the opponent to defend the title with a 4-0 score. In the end, he was re-elected as FMVP without any suspense.

After losing to the Rockets in 1995, O'Neal did not lose confidence. He joined the Lakers in 1996 and gradually reached his peak there. After entering the 21st century, O'Neal led the Lakers to a complete explosion. In 2000, he successfully led the team to win the championship with his MVP + scoring champion + FMVP in a single season. In the finals, he averaged 38 points and 16.7 rebounds per game against the Pacers. Although it seemed that the score in the series was 4-2, in fact, with O'Neal giving his all, his opponent could not resist the Lakers' offensive. After winning the championship in 2000, the Lakers continued their peak until 2002, so they successfully achieved the feat of three consecutive championships. During this period, O'Neal has always been the first player in the league. His personal performance will never disappoint. In the 2001 Finals, O'Neal averaged 33 points, 15.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 3.4 blocks per game. Under his leadership, the Lakers lost only one game in the playoffs throughout the year. In the 2002 Finals, O'Neal still averaged 36.3 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game in this series. Therefore, the Nets failed to win one victory in this series. Judging from O'Neal's performance at the time, naturally no one could steal the FMVP votes from him.

In the 2000s, not only O'Neal achieved the feat of being elected FMVP three unanimous votes, but the other one who performed this was Tim Duncan. As the greatest star in the history of the Spurs, he led the team to the finals many times and won 5 championship trophys in total. At the same time, the Lakers were able to compete with him. When the Spurs won the championship for the first time in 1999, Duncan was still a second-year rookie, but this did not affect his average of 27.4 points, 11.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists in the finals. He also successfully won the FMVP for the first time unanimous vote.

The last two unvoiced FMVPs were in 2003 and 2005, and the 2003 Finals were against the Nets. In this round of series, Duncan averaged 24.2 points, 17 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 5.3 blocks per game. In the final game of G6, he even scored 21 points, 20 rebounds, 10 assists and 8 blocks. In the 2005 Finals, Duncan still averaged 20.6 points, 14.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game in this series with defense-based theme, among which scores and rebounds are the first among both players.

In the end, only two people were able to win more than three unanimous FMVPs in NBA history. First of all, LeBron James, who ranked second in history, won four championships in his 22-year career, and every time he was also an FMVP elected unanimously. James, who won the championship for the first time in 2012, averaged 28.6 points, 10.2 rebounds and 7.4 assists in the finals. At the same time, his defense at that time was much stronger than he is now, so it is obviously worthy of his ability to win the FMVP.

The Heat successfully defended their title in 2013. In those seven games, both sides were very anxious, and both sides basically focused on their respective stadium performances, so they did not get a technical foul in the whole series.. In this round of series, James started low and ended high. He gradually recovered his form after performing in the first three games. Therefore, under his leadership, the Heat also reversed the opponent as he wished. In the end, his data averaged 25.3 points, 10.9 rebounds and 7 assists per game.

Later, when he led the team to win the championship in 2016 and 2020, James also played better data, with 29.7 points, 11.3 rebounds, 8.9 assists, 2.6 steals and 2.3 blocks per game in the 2016 Finals, and his five statistics were ranked first among players on both sides. In the 2020 Finals, the 35-year-old James averaged 29.8 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game. In the end, the Lakers also easily beat the Heat and won the championship. At the end of this list, he is also the player who has been elected the most FMVPs in NBA history. He is the Michael Jordan we are familiar with. In Jordan's career, he led the Bulls to win 6 championships in total, and he won so many rings in the form of two three consecutive championships. This shows how dominant Jordan and the Bulls in the league at their peak.

Among these 6 championships, Jordan only failed to be elected FMVP in the 1996 Finals. He averaged 27.3 points per game in that round of the series, which was the only time he averaged less than 30+ points per game in his finals career. In the remaining five finals, Jordan's personal performance was far ahead of other players, so it was not surprising that he was elected as the FMVP unanimously. Among them, he even averaged 41 points per game in the 1993 Finals.