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Los Angeles: Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant was named the NBA Most Valuable Player for the 2013-14 season yesterday. It’s the first MVP award for the Thunder’s superstar, who captured his fourth scoring title in five seasons.
Durant totalled 1,232 points in balloting for the MVP award. That included 119 first-place votes from a panel of 124 voters that consisted of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada as well as an NBA.com MVP fan vote.
Miami’s LeBron James, winner of the last two MVP awards and four of the last five, finished second in the voting with 891 points and six first-place ballots. Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers was third with 434 points, Chicago’s Joakim Noah fourth on 322 and Houston’s James Harden fifth on 85.
As reports spread on Monday that Durant would shortly be named MVP, James offered his congratulations. “Much respect to him,” James said. “He deserves it. He had a big-time MVP season.”
Durant, 25, averaged a career-best and league-leading 32.0 points per game and averaged a career-high 5.5 assists and 7.4 rebounds per game. He shot better than 50 percent for a second straight season and 30.1 percent from three-point range.
He led Oklahoma City to 59 regular-season victories and the second seed in the Western Conference behind San Antonio, even though star teammate Russell Westbrook missed almost half of the season.
During the regular season, Durant put together a streak of 41 straight games scoring 25 points or more, surpassing Michael Jordan (40) for the third-longest such streak in NBA history.
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