Rarest NBA Most Valuable Player — All 37 Answers Ranked by Rarity

37 answers are accepted for “Name an NBA Most Valuable Player”. Dave Cowens is the rarest NBA Most Valuable Player in this ranking, with 105,494 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Wes Unseld is the second-rarest with 146,413 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.39× the figure for Dave Cowens. LeBron James is the most common NBA Most Valuable Player in this ranking, with 6,284,930 monthly Wikipedia views, 59.6× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 37 answers: 49,673,382. Dave Cowens is 0.2% of that total. 8 answers are Epic or Legendary: Dave Cowens (Legendary), Wes Unseld (Legendary), Bob Pettit (Legendary), and 5 more.

Quick answer

Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

37 answers to “Name an NBA Most Valuable Player”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank	Answer	Tier	Rarity	Monthly Wikipedia views
1	Dave Cowens on Wikipedia	Legendary	1.000	105,494
2	Wes Unseld on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.972	146,413
3	Bob Pettit on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.944	202,896
4	Bob McAdoo on Wikipedia	Epic	0.917	220,352
5	Willis Reed on Wikipedia	Epic	0.889	239,139
6	Bob Cousy on Wikipedia	Epic	0.861	265,107
7	Oscar Robertson on Wikipedia	Epic	0.833	306,449
8	Moses Malone on Wikipedia	Epic	0.806	375,200
9	Bill Walton on Wikipedia	Rare	0.778	394,775
10	David Robinson on Wikipedia	Rare	0.750	566,942
11	Julius Erving on Wikipedia	Rare	0.722	599,526
12	Hakeem Olajuwon on Wikipedia	Rare	0.694	687,982
13	Dirk Nowitzki on Wikipedia	Rare	0.667	693,028
14	Bill Russell on Wikipedia	Rare	0.639	726,160
15	Kevin Garnett on Wikipedia	Rare	0.611	745,787
16	Joel Embiid on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.583	804,462
17	Steve Nash on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.556	839,314
18	Karl Malone on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.528	871,748
19	Derrick Rose on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.500	958,245
20	Allen Iverson on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.472	1,094,641
21	Tim Duncan on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.444	1,156,166
22	Charles Barkley on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.417	1,185,383
23	Russell Westbrook on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.389	1,298,128
24	Wilt Chamberlain on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.361	1,359,621
25	Nikola Jokić on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.333	1,506,853
26	Larry Bird on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.306	1,542,266
27	James Harden on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.278	1,691,799
28	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.250	1,709,695
29	Magic Johnson on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.222	1,841,033
30	Kevin Durant on Wikipedia	Common	0.194	2,003,784
31	Giannis Antetokounmpo on Wikipedia	Common	0.167	2,006,273
32	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Wikipedia	Common	0.139	2,264,772
33	Stephen Curry on Wikipedia	Common	0.111	2,827,697
34	Kobe Bryant on Wikipedia	Common	0.083	2,988,614
35	Shaquille O'Neal on Wikipedia	Common	0.056	3,091,213
36	Michael Jordan on Wikipedia	Common	0.028	4,071,495
37	LeBron James on Wikipedia	Common	0.000	6,284,930

FAQ

What is the rarest NBA Most Valuable Player?

Dave Cowens is the rarest NBA Most Valuable Player in this ranking, with 105,494 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many NBA Most Valuable Players are there?

There are 37 NBA Most Valuable Players in this ranking, from Dave Cowens (rarest) to LeBron James (most common).

What is the most common NBA Most Valuable Player?

LeBron James is the most common NBA Most Valuable Player in this ranking, with 6,284,930 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.