Daily Archives: May 4, 2011
LA Clippers’ Blake Griffin is 2011 NBA Rookie of the Year: ROYs That Went On To Win MVP
Blake Griffin is the 2011 NBA Rookie of the Year (Getty)
Blake Griffin has been named the 2011 NBA Rookie of the Year by a unanimous vote – only the third player in NBA history to do so (David Robinson, ’90; Ralph Sampson ’84).
Yesterday, SLOD gave a rundown of every MVP by team. Derrick Rose, the 2011 NBA MVP, also won the Rookie of the Year (’09). Does that bode well for a possible future Griffin MVP?
Maybe.
That’s today’s Sports List of the Day (* denotes winner of ROY and MVP in same year):
Updated May 12, 2012 to include LeBron James’ 2012 award.
NBA ROYs that went on to win the Maurice Podoloff Trophy (MVP)
1. 1955 Bob Pettit (’56, ’59)
2. 1960 Wilt Chamberlain (’60, ’66, ’67, ’68) *
3. 1961 Oscar Robertson (’64)
4. 1965 Willis Reed (’70)
5. 1969 Wes Unseld (’69) *
6. 1970 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (’71, ’72, ’74, ’76, ’77, ’80)
7. 1971 Dave Cowens (’73)
8. 1973 Bob McAdoo (’75)
9. 1980 Larry Bird (’84, ’85, ’86)
10. 1985 Michael Jordan (’88, ’91, ’92, ’96, ’98)
11. 1990 David Robinson (’95)
12. 1993 Shaquille O’Neal (’00)
13. 1997 Allen Iverson (’01)
14. 1998 Tim Duncan (’02, ’03)
15. 2004 LeBron James (’09, ’10, ’12)
16. 2009 Derrick Rose (’11)
