NBA players who were rookie of the year and MVP
Awarded that basketball is a team sport as well individual awards are questionablehere is the list of NBA players who have won the award best rookie and also best player of the regular season. Before the list it should be noted that being the best rookie it means being the best youngster of the year and who wins that award it is not certain that he will also become an MVPwhere you have to win the competition of the greatest champions of many years of players.
In addition there have also been cases of players who have not been rookie of the year but they won the MVP award. However, here is the list of rookies of the year who later became MVP. Kareem Abdul JabbarMichael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, LeBron James, Larry Bird, Bob Pettit, Tim Duncan, Wes Unseld, Willis Reed, Dave Cowens, Bob McAdoo, David Robinson, Shaquille O’neal, Allen Iverson, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose.
Among all these monuments of the discipline Wilt Chamberlain he was the only one to have won one of his four MVP awards in the same year he was rookie of the year in the 1959 – 60 season. This year the main candidate for the rookie of the year is the Italian Paolo Banchero and who knows if in the future his name will appear on this elite list.
Andrea Renzi
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