NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player

The NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The award was established in 1953 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 and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively. 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. In February 2020, Commissioner Adam Silver renamed the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player in honor of four-time winner Kobe Bryant, who had died in a helicopter crash three weeks prior to the 2020 game.

, the most recent recipient is Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards. Bryant and Bob Pettit are the only two players to win the All-Star Game MVP four times. Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, and LeBron James have each won the award three times, while Bob Cousy, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Allen Iverson, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, and Stephen Curry have all won the award twice. James became the youngest to win the award in 2006 at the age of 21 years and 1 month. No All-Star Game MVP was named in 1999 since the game was canceled due to the league's lockout. Four of the games had joint winners—Elgin Baylor and Pettit in 1959, John Stockton and Malone in 1993, O'Neal and Tim Duncan in 2000, and O'Neal and Bryant in 2009. O'Neal became the first player in All-Star history to share two MVP awards as well as the first player to win the award with multiple teams. The Los Angeles Lakers have had eleven winners while the Boston Celtics have had nine. Duncan of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Kyrie Irving of Australia, and Giannis Antetokounmpo of Greece are the only winners not born in the United States. Both Duncan and Irving are American citizens, but are considered "international" players by the NBA because they were not born in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C. Antetokounmpo of Greece is the only winner to be trained entirely outside the U.S.; Irving lived in the U.S. since age two, and Duncan played U.S. college basketball at Wake Forest.

Bob Pettit (1958, 1959) and Russell 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), and Allen Iverson (2001) all won the All-Star Game MVP and the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in the same season; Jordan is the only player to do this multiple times. 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.

Winners

^Denotes player who is still active in the NBA*Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame†Not yet eligible for Hall of Fame considerationA player is not eligible for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame until he has been fully retired for two calendar years.Player (#)Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the MVP awardTeam (#)Denotes the number of times a player from this team has won

Season Player Position Nationality Team1951 * Center/forward Boston Celtics1952 * Forward/guard Philadelphia Warriors1953 * Center Minneapolis Lakers1954 * Guard Boston Celtics (2)1955 * Guard Boston Celtics (3)1956 * Forward/center St. Louis Hawks1957 * (2) Guard Boston Celtics (4)1958 * (2) Forward/center St. Louis Hawks (2)1959 * Forward Minneapolis Lakers (2) * (3) Forward/center St. Louis Hawks (3)1960 * Center Philadelphia Warriors (2)1961 * Guard Cincinnati Royals1962 * (4) Forward/center St. Louis Hawks (4)1963 * Center Boston Celtics (5)1964 * (2) Guard Cincinnati Royals (2)1965 * Forward/center Cincinnati Royals (3)1966 Guard Cincinnati Royals (4)1967 * Forward San Francisco Warriors (3)1968 * Guard/forward Philadelphia 76ers1969 * (3) Guard Cincinnati Royals (5)1970 * Center/forward New York Knicks1971 * Guard Seattle SuperSonics1972 * Guard Los Angeles Lakers (3)1973 * Center/forward Boston Celtics (6)1974 * Center Detroit Pistons1975 * Guard New York Knicks (2)1976 * Guard Washington Bullets1977 * Forward Philadelphia 76ers (2)1978 Guard/forward Buffalo Braves1979 * Guard/forward Denver Nuggets1980 * Guard/forward San Antonio Spurs1981 * Guard Boston Celtics (7)1982 * Forward Boston Celtics (8)1983 * (2) Forward Philadelphia 76ers (3)1984 * Guard Detroit Pistons (2)1985 * Center/forward Houston Rockets1986 * (2) Guard Detroit Pistons (3)1987 Forward/center Seattle SuperSonics (2)1988 * Guard Chicago Bulls1989 * Forward Utah Jazz1990 * Guard Los Angeles Lakers (4)1991 * Forward Philadelphia 76ers (4)1992 * (2) Guard Los Angeles Lakers (5)1993 * Guard Utah Jazz (2) * (2) Forward Utah Jazz (3)1994 * Forward Chicago Bulls (2)1995 * Guard Sacramento Kings (6)1996 * (2) Guard Chicago Bulls (3)1997 Forward Charlotte Hornets1998 * (3) Guard Chicago Bulls (4)1999Not awarded as the game was canceled due to the league's lockout.2000 * Center Los Angeles Lakers (6) * Forward/center San Antonio Spurs (2)2001 * Guard Philadelphia 76ers (5)2002 * Guard Los Angeles Lakers (7)2003 * Forward/center Minnesota Timberwolves2004 * (2) Center Los Angeles Lakers (8)2005 * (2) Guard Philadelphia 76ers (6)2006 ^ Forward Cleveland Cavaliers2007 * (2) Guard Los Angeles Lakers (9)2008 ^ (2) Forward Cleveland Cavaliers (2)2009 * (3) Guard Los Angeles Lakers (10) * (3) Center Phoenix Suns2010 * Guard Miami Heat2011 * (4) Guard Los Angeles Lakers (11)2012 ^ Forward Oklahoma City Thunder (3)2013 † Guard Los Angeles Clippers (2) 2014 ^ Guard Cleveland Cavaliers (3) 2015 † Guard Oklahoma City Thunder (4) 2016 † (2) Guard Oklahoma City Thunder (5) 2017 ^ Forward/center New Orleans Pelicans 2018^ (3) Forward Cleveland Cavaliers (4) 2019^ (2) Forward Golden State Warriors (4) 2020^ Forward Los Angeles Clippers (3) 2021^ Forward Milwaukee Bucks 2022^ Guard Golden State Warriors (5) 2023^ Forward Boston Celtics (9) 2024^ Guard Milwaukee Bucks (2) 2025^ (2) Guard Golden State Warriors (6) 2026^ Guard Minnesota Timberwolves (2)

Multi-time winners AwardsPlayerTeam(s)Years4 St. Louis Hawks1956, 1958, 1959, 1962 Los Angeles Lakers2002, 2007, 2009, 20113 Cincinnati Royals1961, 1964, 1969 Chicago Bulls1988, 1996, 1998 Los Angeles Lakers (2), Phoenix Suns (1)2000, 2004, 2009 Cleveland Cavaliers2006, 2008, 20182 Boston Celtics1954, 1957 Philadelphia 76ers1977, 1983 Detroit Pistons1984, 1986 Utah Jazz1989, 1993 Los Angeles Lakers1990, 1992 Philadelphia 76ers2001, 2005 Oklahoma City Thunder2015, 2016 Oklahoma City Thunder (1), Golden State Warriors (1)2012, 2019 Golden State Warriors2022, 2025

Teams Awards Teams Years11Los Angeles Lakers / Minneapolis Lakers, , , , , , , , , , 9Boston Celtics, , , , , , , , 6Philadelphia 76ers, , , , , Sacramento Kings / Cincinnati Royals, , , , , Golden State Warriors / San Francisco Warriors / Philadelphia Warriors, , , , , 5Oklahoma City Thunder / Seattle SuperSonics, , , , 4Chicago Bulls, , , Cleveland Cavaliers, , , Atlanta Hawks / St. Louis Hawks, , , 3Los Angeles Clippers / Buffalo Braves, , Detroit Pistons, , 2Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, New York Knicks, San Antonio Spurs, Utah Jazz, 1Charlotte HornetsDenver NuggetsHouston RocketsMiami HeatNew Orleans PelicansPhoenix SunsWashington Wizards / Washington Bullets0Indiana PacersNoneBrooklyn NetsDallas MavericksPortland Trail BlazersMemphis GrizzliesToronto RaptorsOrlando Magic

NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player

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