TheNBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player[1] (MVP) is an annualNational Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annualAll-Star Game. The award was established in1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games.Ed Macauley andPaul Arizin were selected as the1951 and1952 MVP winners respectively.[2] The winner is voted upon by a panel of media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game. The fan voting accounts for 25% of the voting. The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award.[3] In February 2020,CommissionerAdam Silver renamed theNBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player in honor of four-time winnerKobe Bryant, who had died ina helicopter crash a few weeks prior to the2020 game.[1]
Bob Pettit (1958, 1959) andRussell Westbrook (2015, 2016) are the only players to win consecutive awards. Pettit (1956),Bob Cousy (1957),Wilt Chamberlain (1960),Bill Russell (1963),Oscar Robertson (1964),Willis Reed (1970),Dave Cowens (1973), Michael Jordan (1988, 1996, 1998), Magic Johnson (1990), Shaquille O'Neal (2000), andAllen Iverson (2001) all won the All-Star Game MVP and theNBA Most Valuable Player Award in the same season; Jordan is the only player to do this multiple times.[7] Fifteen players have won the award playing for the team that hosted the All-Star Game: Macauley (1951), Cousy (1957), Pettit (1958, 1962), Chamberlain (1960),Adrian Smith (1966),Rick Barry (1967),Jerry West (1972),Tom Chambers (1987), Jordan (1988), Malone (1993),John Stockton (1993), O'Neal (2004, 2009), Bryant (2011),Anthony Davis (2017), and Curry (2025); Pettit and O'Neal did this multiple times.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has the distinction of playing in the most All-Star Games (18) without winning the All-Star Game MVP, while Adrian Smith won the MVP in his only All-Star Game.
Hall-of-FamerBill Russell (left) won the award in the 1963 NBA All-Star Game. Hall-of-FamerWilt Chamberlain (center) won the award in the 1960 NBA All-Star Game.Hall-of-FamerMichael Jordan won the award three times in his career.Hall-of-FamerCharles Barkley won the award in the1991 NBA All-Star Game.Hall-of-FamerShaquille O'Neal has won the award three times in his career. He is also the oldest MVP ever, at 36 years and 346 days old.Hall-of-FamerKobe Bryant won the award a record four times in his career, a feat he shares withBob Pettit. The award was renamed after him following his death in 2020.LeBron James was the youngest player to ever win the award at 21 years and 51 days old and is the all-time leader in points scored in NBA All-Star Game history.[8]Stephen Curry has won the award two times in his career and is the all-time leader in three-point field goals made in NBA All-Star Game history.Giannis Antetokounmpo is the first and only non-American and Greek player to win the award.
^abKyrie Irving was born in Australia to American parents who returned to the U.S. when he was two years old. He has dual U.S. and Australian citizenship, but has represented theUnited States internationally.[11]
^abcdDenotes All-Star Games in which joint winners were named
^Because Tim Duncan is a United States citizen by birth, as are all natives of the U.S. Virgin Islands,[9] he was able to play for the U.S. internationally.[10]
^James, at 21 years and 51 days old, is the youngest All-Star Game MVP in NBA history.
^O'Neal, at 36 years and 346 days old, is the oldest All-Star Game MVP in NBA history.
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