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Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash will be awarded the NBA's Most Valuable Player
on Sunday, ESPN.com has learned.
Nash has edged Miami center Shaquille O'Neal to become just the fourth point
in MVP history to win the league's highest individual honor, according to
sources familiar with the results. The others are Magic Johnson, Oscar
Robertson and Bob Cousy.
The official announcement will come at halftime of ABC's 3 p.m. ET playoff
game.
O'Neal, three times an NBA Finals MVP, has won the regular-season MVP trophy
just once in his 13 seasons. Apparently tipping this vote in Nash's favor was
the Suns' 33-game improvement -- from 29 wins to a league-leading 62 wins --
after signing Nash away from the Dallas Mavericks in the offseason.
Nash's previous best MVP showing was 14th place in 2002.
With Nash flanked by the athletic finishing of fellow All-Stars Amare
Stoudemire and Shawn Marion, Phoenix became just the second team in NBA
annals to win at least 60 games after a 50-loss season. The first? The Boston
Celtics in Larry Bird's rookie season of 1979-80.
But Nash is defying history to beat out O'Neal, and not simply because he had
only one scholarship offer from a Division I university -- Santa Clara -- as
a slight Canadian teen-ager in British Columbia.
Allen Iverson, the NBA's 2001 MVP as a shooting guard, is the only player
shorter than 6-foot-6 in the past four decades to win the award. Nash also
becomes the first MVP since Portland's Bill Walton in 1978 to average less
than 20 points per game. His 15.5-point scoring average for the Suns is the
third-lowest all-time for an MVP, ahead of only Washington's Wes Unseld (13.8
ppg in 1969) and Boston's Bill Russell (14.1 ppg in 1965).
Nash, though, did lead the league in assists (11.5 apg) by a wide margin for
a Suns team that averaged a league-leading 110 points per game.
Phoenix swept Memphis 4-0 in a first-round series and awaits the
Dallas-Houston winner in the second round, raising the possibility of an
emotional series against the team he left last summer.
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