Did You Know This

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Did you know that Derrick Rose is the NBA's youngest MVP?



Did you know that Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose is the youngest Most Valuable Player award-winner in the history of the NBA he was 22?




Did you know that the 22-year-old Rose leading the Bulls to a 62-20 record and No. 1 seed in the playoffs?
Did you know that Rose got 1,182 points and 113 first-place votes from a panel of media voters, supplanting Wes Unseld as the youngest to win the award with a runaway win?

Did you know that Orlando's Dwight Howard (643 points) finished second, Miami's LeBron Jameswas third, the Lakers' Kobe Bryant was fourth and Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant finished fifth?
Did you know that Michael Jordan was the last Bulls player to win the MVP award?

Did you know that Jordan won the MVP Award five times, with the latest being 199?
Did you know that Rose ended the two-year MVP reign of LeBron James?
Wes Unseld
Did you know that Wes Unseld was the youngest MVP at 23 and Unseld was the rookie of the year and MVP with the Baltimore Bullets for the 1968-69 season?
Did you know that former Bulls, Scottie Pippen and B.J. Armstrong, who is Rose's agent?
Scottie Pippen and B.J. Armstrong
Did you know that Rose ranked seventh in scoring and 10th in assists, making him the only player this season in the top 10 in both categories. The only other Bulls player to do that was Jordan in 1988-89, when he led the league in scoring (32.5 points) and finished 10th in assists?

Did you know that Rose joins another elite group, he's the seventh player in league history to average at least 25 points, 7.5 assists and 4.0 rebounds, along with Jordan, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Larry Bird, Wade and James, according to the Elias Sports Bureau?





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