NBA Awards: Finals MVP, Grouped by Team

This is the complete list of winners of the Finals MVP Award, grouped by team.

Team with the Most Awards:

Los Angeles Lakers
13 times had the Finals MVP

NBA Awards: Finals MVP

The Most Valuable Player of the Finals is selected by a panel of pro basketball writters and broadcasters since 1981. The MVP winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named that way after the first commissioner of the NBA. From 1956 to 1980 the winner was selected by the NBA players.

The Lakers franchise had 8 players winning this award, with Magic Johnson and Shaquille O'Neal doing it three times each and Kobe Bryant twice.

Finals MVP: by Year / by Player / by Team

NBA Awards: All-time list of teams who had the winner of the Finals MVP award.

Awards NBA Team
Player
Season
Player / Season
13 Los Angeles Lakers
Magic Johnson
Shaquille O'Neal
Kobe Bryant
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Wilt Chamberlain
LeBron James
Jerry West
James Worthy
6 Boston Celtics
Larry Bird
John Havlicek
Cedric Maxwell
Paul Pierce
Jo Jo White
6 Chicago Bulls
5 Golden State Warriors
Kevin Durant
Rick Barry
Stephen Curry
Andre Iguodala
5 San Antonio Spurs
Tim Duncan
Kawhi Leonard
Tony Parker
3 Detroit Pistons
Chauncey Billups
Joe Dumars
Isiah Thomas
3 Miami Heat
LeBron James
Dwyane Wade
Awards NBA Team
Player
Season
Player / Season
2 Houston Rockets
Hakeem Olajuwon
2 Milwaukee Bucks
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Giannis Antetokounmpo
2 New York Knicks
Willis Reed
1 Cleveland Cavaliers
LeBron James
1 Dallas Mavericks
Dirk Nowitzki
1 Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic
1 Oklahoma City Thunder
Dennis Johnson
1978-79 (Seattle Supersonics)
1 Philadelphia 76ers
Moses Malone
1 Portland Trail Blazers
Bill Walton
1 Toronto Raptors
Kawhi Leonard
1 Washington Wizards
Wes Unseld
1977-78 (Washington Bullets)