bob pettit won the first mvp award in basketball.
bob pettit won the first mvp award in basketball.
who won the first mvp award in basketball?
bob pettit
1955–56 st. louis hawks season









































the 1955–56 st. louis hawks season was the tenth season for the franchise. after 4 last-place seasons in milwaukee, the hawks relocated to st. louis. the city had once been home to the st. louis bombers, an early baa franchise that folded in 1950. the hawks were on the verge of becoming one of the top teams in the nba. led by 2nd year forward bob pettit, pettit would earn the very first mvp award in nba history. the hawks would finish in 2nd place with a 33–39 record.
1955–56 st. louis hawks season
the national basketball league kiwi mvp is an annual national basketball league (nbl) award given since the 1984 new zealand nbl season to the best performing new zealand player(s) of the regular season. with no mvp award given for the league's first two seasons, in 1984, the league named its first mvp in new zealander john "dutchie" rademakers. the award then went on a six-year hiatus before being brought back in 1991. however, the league did not recognise imports, with only new zealanders being able to win mvp honours. that was until 2003 when a league-wide mvp award was introduced alongside the kiwi mvp to allow imports the opportunity to win. in 2019, the kiwi mvp was not awarded for the first time since 1990.
new zealand nbl kiwi mvp award