(At right) The front page of Monday's Arizona RepublicLast year, Nash became just the second point guard in 40 years to win the prestigious award after leading the Phoenix Suns to the best record in the NBA.
Nash joined Magic Johnson as the only point guards to win MVP awards since Oscar Robertson won for Cincinnati in 1964.
At 6-3, Nash also is among the shortest MVPs in history, joining 6-1 Bob Cousy and 6- foot Allen Iverson.
This year, Amaré Stoudemire's knee surgery deprived the Suns of their top scorer and Nash led the team to 54 wins and its first repeat division title with only Shawn Marion and Leandro Barbosa back for a full season. Like a true superstar, Nash made the supporting cast around him better. Barbosa and Marion have had career years as well as new additions Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, James Jones and Eddie House.
The driving force of the Suns' relentless up-tempo attack, Nash led the league with 10.5 assists per game and set career highs in points (18.8), rebounds (4.2), field-goal percentage (51.2) and free-throw percentage (92.1).
Nash is the the first international and Suns player to win twice. Only eight previous players repeated as MVP winners. Magic Johnson was the only point guard to do so.
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it's a great organization overall that let's nash run the floor and make plays happen, d'antoni works well with this mvp, he believes in his players. if we hadn't gotten nash back, i bet he wouldn't have made it as far without this kind of support. he got the go ahead and he went for it. way to go, steve nash!!!!
karen
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