NBA MVP winners
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NBA MVP winners
Order by the year each player first won MVP. You place all 36 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
36
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the NBA MVP timeline game
Basketball's MVP honor is the subject here, with each winner listed alongside the team and position he played when he won. You're ordering them by the year of each player's first MVP. One winner begins on the timeline with the year in view. Choose a gap for each new card; if you're right the year appears, and if you're wrong the player still moves to his correct place and you give up one of three lives.
From the league's early big men to today's international stars, the award's whole history is here. Repeat winners count once, at their first award, so a player who dominated for years sits at the start of that run. Team names help with franchises that once played under a different name or in a different city, and centers from different generations are the cards most likely to get swapped.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 30 times. An average run places 8.9 cards, and 75% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Moses Malone missed 56% of the time, usually by a single place
- Willis Reed missed 50% of the time, usually by a single place
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar missed 50% of the time, usually by about 2 places
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 36 cards you might be dealt, with 8 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Bob Pettit Hawks forward
- Bob Cousy Celtics guard
- Bill Russell Celtics center
- Wilt Chamberlain Warriors center
- Wes Unseld Bullets center
- Willis Reed Knicks center
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Bucks center
- Bob McAdoo Braves center
- Bill Walton Trail Blazers center
- Moses Malone Rockets center
- Julius Erving 76ers forward
- Michael Jordan Bulls guard
- Magic Johnson Lakers guard
- Charles Barkley Suns forward
- David Robinson Spurs center
- Karl Malone Jazz forward
- Shaquille O'Neal Lakers center
- Allen Iverson 76ers guard
- Kevin Garnett Timberwolves forward
- Steve Nash Suns guard
- Kobe Bryant Lakers guard
- Derrick Rose Bulls guard
- Kevin Durant Thunder forward
- Stephen Curry Warriors guard
- Russell Westbrook Thunder guard
- Giannis Antetokounmpo Bucks forward
- Nikola Jokic Nuggets center
- Joel Embiid 76ers center
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