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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
Canadian basketball player Steve Nash wins NBA's Most Valuable Player award
Canadian basketball player and Phoenix point guard Steve Nash has won the NBA's Most Valuable Player award for a second straight year.
Steve Nash, 32, is the ninth player to win consecutive MVP awards and the other winners include legendary names like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, Larry Bird, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain.
Steve Nash beat runner-up LeBron James of Cleveland by a big margin in voting among sports writers and broadcasters and he received 57 first-place votes and 924 points overall from a panel of 125 sports journalists in America and Canada.
LeBron James had 16 first-place votes and 688 points overall. Steve Nash's good friend Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas was in third position with 14 first-place ballots and 544 overall.
Last season, Steve Nash, whose family moved to Canada from South Africa when he was two, helped the Suns to an NBA-best 62 victories.
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