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The National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals Most Valuable Player Award is presented to the player who has exhibited exceptional play during an NBA Finals series. The award typically goes to a player on the winning team, though when it was first awarded to Jerry West in 1969, his Los Angeles Lakers team lost to the Boston Celtics. It is the only year that the award went to a player whose team did not win the championship.
Magic Johnson is the youngest player and only rookie to be named the Finals MVP at the age of 20 years in the 1980 NBA Finals.
The award was originally a black trophy with a gold basketball-shaped sphere at the top, similar to the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy, until a smaller trophy was introduced in 2005 and presented to the Finals MVP, Tim Duncan.
Tony Parker, winner of the 2007 trophy, is the first European-born player to be named Finals MVP.
On February 14, 2009, during the 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend in Phoenix, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that the award would be re-named the "Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award" in honor of 11-time NBA champion Bill Russell.
These players won more NBA Finals MVP awards than any other:
| | 6 - Michael Jordan |
| | 3 - Shaq |
| | 3 - Tim Duncan |
| | 3 - Magic Johnson |
| | 2 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| | 2 - Larry Bird |
| | 2 - Willis Reed |
| | 2 - Hakeem Olajuwon |
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