Michael Jordan is the oldest MVP in the All-Star Games. The NBA All-Star Game is generally for younger players at their best. These are the 10 oldest players to win the All-Star MVP. Kicking off this list is Magic Johnson.
Johnson's career was cut short after it was announced that he had been diagnosed with HIV. However, as the world became more aware of the dreaded disease, Johnson was allowed to return to the 1992 NBA All-Star Game. After the format change, James led the LeBron team to a dominant start by flirting with a triple-double with 29 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. Despite coming off the bench in the 1971 NBA All-Star Game, Lenny Wilkens stole the show.
He exploded to score 21 points while shooting 73 percent from the overall field. Thanks to their scoring outburst, the Western All-Stars escaped with a 108-107 victory. After a long offseason in which Damian Lillard applied for a trade with the Portland Trail Blazers, which was loaned with a transfer to the Milwaukee Bucks, Lillard made his eighth appearance in the All-Star Game. Lillard had 39 points, three rebounds and six assists to lead the East to a 211-186 victory, which was the highest-scoring All-Star Game in history.
Considered one of the NBA's leading legends, Jerry West had another striking performance in the 1972 All-Star Game. He led the Western All-Stars with 13 points. However, none of his points were greater than his 20-foot jump shot that allowed him to claim the victory. In the 1998 All-Star Game, Michael Jordan won his third and final award to the MVP of the All-Star Game.
Widely regarded as the GOAT, Jordan also became the second oldest to win the award. Take a look at each of the NBA's All-Star Game MVP winners. The guy is the NBA logo, which is probably a bigger achievement than being the NBA All-Star MVP, but West took the trophy home. The All-Star Game of baseball was already immensely popular, and the NBA was concerned about the image of basketball due to a scandal that diminished points in college basketball.
There was no All-Star Game in 1999 due to the lockout, so perhaps the NBA felt the need to redouble its commitment to MVPs in 2000. In the early '70s, the nature of the NBA All-Star Game clearly changed, as players stopped adding huge numbers. Although there is nothing at stake in the All-Star Game festivities, it is an event in which basketball legends continue to consolidate their greatness in NBA history. People think that Bing is a Piston.
He even became mayor of Detroit, but won his All-Star MVP with a Bullet. The NBA All-Star Game can be a bit quiet, so it's only logical that a guy known as Ice Man won the MVP once. The NBA All-Star Game doesn't mean much in terms of who wins and who loses, so the league has done its best to make it more competitive. Surprisingly, Wilt the Stilt, the man who scored 100 points in a game, was the MVP of an All-Star Game only once.
The NBA returned to the East against the West and, once again, there was talk of making the All-Star Game was competitive.
