Who is the worst player to win each of the major NBA Awards?

By Rahul Raja | Jan 27, 2022

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Who is the worst player to win each of the major NBA Awards?: Finals MVP – Andre Iguodala (2015)

In the 2014-15 regular season, Andre Iguodala was the sixth man and veteran leader for a young, but formidable Golden State Warriors team. He averaged 7.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.0 assists and was one of the defensive anchors alongside Draymond Green.

He played 77 games, all of them off the bench. However, it was pretty clear that Stephen Curry was the star of that team. With his revolutionary three-point shooting, he led the team to a 67-win season and won his first MVP.

In the 2015 Finals, the Warriors beat a depleted and injured Cleveland Cavaliers team in six games. Stephen Curry averaged 26.0 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 6.3 assists. Iguodala came off the bench until Game 4 and averaged 16.3 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 4.0 assists.

At the time of the Finals MVP voting, Lebron James, who was on the losing team, received 4/11 votes, with the rest going to Iggy. James had been excellent and Iguodala was largely credited for lowering his efficiency to a 47% True Shooting percentage.

Iguodala is probably going to go down as being one of the only Finals MVPs in NBA history to not join the Hall of Fame alongside Cedric Maxwell, who won the 1981 Finals MVP after a disappointing performance from Larry Bird. Maxwell even led the Celtics in scoring during that series; Iggy wasn’t discernibly the best player on his team.