The NBA announced Kevin Garnett (Minnesota Timberwolves) was named the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player.

Kevin Garnett received a whopping 120 of a possible 123 first-place votes! In the the panel: sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Players were awarded 10 points for each first-place vote, seven points for each second-place vote, five for third, three for fourth and one for each fifth-place vote received.

Voting Scores

Player, Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Pts
Kevin Garnett, Minnesota	120	2	1	0	0	1219
Tim Duncan, San Antonio	0	72	34	13	3	716
Jermaine O’Neal, Indiana	2	29	46	17	19	523
Peja Stojakovic, Sacramento	1	8	16	34	33	281
Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers	0	7	14	22	27	212
Shaquille O’Neal, L.A. Lakers	0	5	11	23	19	178
Ben Wallace, Detroit	0	0	0	5	9	24
Jason Kidd, New Jersey	0	0	0	5	2	17
LeBron James, Cleveland	0	0	1	1	3	11
Baron Davis, New Orleans	0	0	0	1	1	4
Sam Cassell, Minnesota	0	0	0	1	1	4
Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas	0	0	0	1	1	4
Andrei Kirilenko, Utah	0	0	0	0	2	2
Yao Ming, Houston	0	0	0	0	1	1
Michael Redd, Milwaukee	0	0	0	0	1	1
Carmelo Anthony, Denver	0	0	0	0	1	1

This is Garnett's best season yet. He averaged a career bests in
points (24.2 ppg, 2nd in the NBA),
rebounds (13.9 rpg, 1st in the NBA)
blocked shots (2.17 bpg)

And managed to average 5.0 assists and 1.46 steals.

What's more amazing is the amount of double-doubles. Garnett got 71 double-doubles this season, the most in the NBA since Hakeem Olajuwon's 72 during the 1992-93 season. Garnett now is the 5th player in NBA history, and the first in 29 years , to lead the league in total points (1,987) and total rebounds (1,139) in the same season.

Garnett earned his third All-NBA First Team selection this season – his sixth overall All-NBA honor – and was named a member of the All-Defensive First Team for the fifth consecutive season. Garnett earned Player of the Month honors four times this season (December, January, February, April), the first time a player has accomplished that feat since the award originated in 1979-80. He was also awarded the Western Conference Player of the Week Award an NBA-best four times this season.

The first player in the history of the Timberwolves to be voted the winner of the MVP Award, Garnett led Minnesota to a team-record 58 wins en route to the franchise’s first Midwest Division title. A nine-game win streak to end the season placed them one game ahead of San Antonio for the top seed in the Western Conference. Garnett broke 10 single-season team records this season, including single season scoring records of 1,903 points and 23.2 ppg (1989-90). The NBA rebounding crown is Garnett’s first, as well as the first individual category title in club history.

Garnett scored
20 or more points in 66 games
30 or more points in 12 games
20-point, 20-rebound in 6 games
100 blocks and 100 steals this season.

And like any brilliant player he has a record of assits. On March 21, Garnett surpassed the 3,000-assists. Garnett is now the 17th NBA player with a career total of 13,000 points, 7,000 rebounds and 3,000 assists. Garnett's 13,000th point was Feb. 1 vs. Philadelphia. Garnett's 7,000th rebound was Feb. 3 vs. Orlando Magic. The NBA MVP trophy is named in honor of the late Maurice Podoloff, the first commissioner of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.

Last years MVPs:

1999-00: Shaquille O'Neal, LA Lakers
2000-01: Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
2001-02: Tim Duncan, San Antonio
2002-03: Tim Duncan, San Antonio
2003-04: Kevin Garnett, Minnesota

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