Regular season Kia NBA MOST Valuable Player Award winner: Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are one of the most successful franchise companies in NBA history after 18 titles. The youngest was in the 2023-24 campaign. As expected and given their long success story, the Celtics named several players with the MVP Award. Here is a comprehensive list of all Celtics players who won this prestigious price, which is designed for the best player in the regular season in the NBA.

Bob Cousy – 1957 NBA MVP

Cousy was the first Boston player to win the MVP Prize and he achieved this performance in the second season of the league. It was also the first title for the Celtics when Cousy Boston led to a 4: 3 victory against the St. Louis Hawks in the 1957 NBA final. The Star Floor General, which was seen as one of the largest point guards who have ever stepped on an NBA dish, scored an average of 20.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game while appearing in 64 competitions. Surprisingly, this was the only MVP award from Cous's career for such a good player.

Bill Russell – 1958 NBA MVP

Russell's first MVP of his career only came in the second season of his NBA office. He played in 69 games for the Celtics and ended with an average of 16.6 points, 22.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists per competition. However, the Celtics would not win the title this year, as the St. Louis Hawks would win the 1958 NBA final. But it was the first time that the basketball world of Russell's impressive two-way game made aware of, and this would begin an era of dominance for the Celtics with Russell as the main player.

Bill Russell – 1961 NBA MVP

Russell started a run of three consecutive MVP prices with an impressive statistics line at the end of the regular 1960-61 season between 1961 and 1963. In 78 regular season competitions, Russell achieved an average of 16.9 points, 23.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, while he scored 42.6 percent from the ground and 55 percent from the charity strip. From the point of view of efficiency, these numbers are not at eye level, but he was the option of a Celtics team that would win the title after defeating the St. Louis Hawks in the NBA final.

Bill Russell – 1962 NBA MVP

From the point of view of the score, the 1961-62 Russell's best moment of his career was a Hall of Fame career. On the way to the third MVP of his career and second in two consecutive years, the elite Big Man scored an average of 18.9 points per game. However, he scored more than just one goal and was an absolute animal on the glass after taking 23.6 rebounds per competition. His 4.5 templates per game were the first time in his career, in which he had more than four groschen per game, and that would become the norm in the last phases of his career.

Bill Russell – 1963 NBA MVP

Russell's third MVP Prize in a row and the quarter of his career was in the 1962/63 campaign when the Celtics won another NBA title. Russell achieved an average of 16.8 points, 23.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game in 78 appearances of the regular season. He was also appointed in the All-Star game and the All-NBA First Team. This was one of Russell's 11 All-Star nod about his 13-year career.

Bill Russell – 1965 NBA MVP

Russell's run of five MVP prices ended in the 1964/65 campaign, in which he achieved a monster line of 14.1 points and 24.1 rebounds per competition. He also added 5.3 groschen per game, which was quite impressive because he was the first elite big man in the history of the game. It is worth noting that Russell, outside the profit of five MVP awards, was also completed in his 13-year career as a top 3 vote in his 13-year career.

Dave Cowens – 1973 NBA MVP

Cowens won his Lone MVP Award in the 1972/73 season, in which the Celtics ended with the best record of the league, but lost to the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference final. Cowens achieved an average of 20.5 points, 16.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game in 82 appearances of the regular season, while he had an average of 41.8 minutes per competition.

Larry Bird – 1984 NBA MVP

The first of three straight MVP titles for Bird, the Hall of Fame striker, achieved an average of 24.2 points, 10.1 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.9 blocks per competition, while in 77 of his 79 appearances of the regular season. This season he shot only 24.7 percent from the three -point range, although this number would increase dramatically in the coming seasons. This was also one of the six seasons in which Bird had a double double on average.

Larry Bird: 1985 NBA MVP

Bird's second MVP season in a row with the Celtics was one of his best campaigns from a purely statistical point of view. He scored an average of 28.7 points per game, the second highest brand of his career, while he shot 52.2 percent of the floor and 42.7 percent. However, he was more than just a scorer. The bird also had an average of 10.5 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.2 blocks per competition.

Larry Bird: 1986 NBA MVP

Bird was the last player who won the award in three consecutive years, and he was also the last Boston player who received this recognition. In his third MVP season in a row, Bird achieved an average of 25.8 points, 9.8 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 2.0 steals and 0.6 blocks over 38.0 minutes per game in 82 appearances (81 starts). He also shot 42.3 percent from the three -point range, an extremely high number for this era.