The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is the annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the Yearly All-Star Game.

The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials made a decision to designate an MVP for each year’s match. The league players in the preceding two All-Star Games. Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners . The voting is conducted by a panel of media members, who cast their vote following the ending of the game. The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award. No All-Star Game MVP was called in 1999 since the game was canceled as a result of the league’s lockout. As of 2019, the latest recipient is Golden State Warrior forward Kevin Durant.
Bob Pettit and Kobe Bryant will be the only two players to acquire the All-Star Game MVP four times. Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal, and LeBron James have won the award three times, while Bob Cousy, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Allen Iverson, Russell Westbrook, and Kevin Durant have won the award twice. James’ first All-Star MVP in 2006 made him the youngest to have won the award at age 21 years, 1 month. Kyrie Irving, winner of the 2014 All-Star Game MVP, is the second-youngest in 21 years, 10 months. They’re notable as being the two youngest to win the award, equally as Cleveland Cavaliers. Four of those matches had joint champions –Elgin Baylor and Pettit in 1959, John Stockton and Malone in 1993, O’Neal and Tim Duncan in 2000, and O’Neal and Bryant at 2009. O’Neal became the first participant in playoff history to share two MVP awards in addition to the first player to win the award with multiple teams. The Los Angeles Lakers have had eleven winners while the Boston Celtics have experienced eight. Duncan of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Irving of Australia will be the sole winners never born in the USA. Both Duncan and Irving[a] are American citizens, but are considered”global” players from the NBA since they were not born in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C. No participant trained entirely outside the U.S. has won the award; Irving lived at the U.S. since age two, and Duncan played with U.S. school basketball at Wake Forest.
Bob Pettit (1958, 1959) and Russell Westbrook (2015, 2016) are the only players to win successive 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), and Allen Iverson (2001) all won the All-Star Game MVP along with the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in precisely the same period; Jordan is the only player to do this multiple times. [7] 14 players have won the award playing to the group which 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), Michael Jordan (1988), Karl Malone (1993), John Stockton (1993), O’Neal (2004, 2009), Bryant (2011) and Davis (2017); 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.

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