Adding to an already tremendous season, Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson on Tuesday was named the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the 2000-01 season.
Iverson totaled 1,121 points and received 93 of a possible 124 first-place votes in the balloting done by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada.
San Antonio's Tim Duncan finished second with 706 points (18 first-place votes) and Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal, last year's MVP, was third with 578 points (seven first place-votes). Sacramento's Chris Webber finished fourth in the voting with 521 points (five first-place votes) and Minnesota's Kevin Garnett was fifth with 151 points (one first-place vote).
At 6-0, Iverson is the shortest player in NBA history to win the award. At 165 pounds, he is also the lightest player in NBA history to win. Bob Cousy, the NBA Most Valuable Player in 1956-57, previously held the distinction at 6-1 and 175 pounds.
Iverson was the only player named on all 124 ballots. O'Neal, Duncan and Webber were named on 121, 120 and 116 ballots, respectively. Seventeen players received at least one vote.
In his fifth NBA season out of Georgetown, Iverson led the Sixers to an Eastern Conference-best 56 victories, the most for the franchise since 1985, and their first Atlantic Division title since 1990. He becomes the first Sixer to be named league MVP since Moses Malone won his third MVP award in 1982-83.
A fierce competitor at both ends of the floor, Iverson finished the season with a career-high and league-leading 31.1 points a game, while also leading the NBA in steals (2.51 a game) and minutes played (42.0 a game). He is the first player since Michael Jordan in 1992-93 to lead the league in points and steals per game.
Voted by fans to start in this year's All-Star Game, Iverson garnered MVP honors by scoring a game-high 25 points and leading the East to a 111-110 comeback victory.
On Jan. 6, Iverson recorded a career-high 54 points on 20-of-30 shooting from the field, including 4-of-7 from three-point range, in a 107-103 victory over Cleveland. Two weeks later, Iverson would again surpass the 50-point plateau by scoring 51 points in Philadelphia's 110-106 loss to Toronto on Jan. 21.
He scored 40 or more points 17 times this season, 30 or more points 35 times, was a two-time recipient of the NBA's Player of the Week award, and was named the NBA's Player of the Month for January.
The 124-member voting panel consisted of 37 national media members and three media members who cover the NBA regularly from each of the league's 29 teams. Media voted for five MVP candidates in order of preference. Points were awarded on a 10-7-5-3-1 basis.
The MVP trophy is named in honor of the late Maurice Podoloff, the first commissioner of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.
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