Three times in NBA history has one player won both MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards, most recently two seasons ago when Giannis Antetokounmpo was Mr. Everything for Milwaukee. Michael Jordan netted both the MVP and DPoY in 1988. Six years later, Hakeem Olajuwon completed the same feat and won the first of back-to-back titles with the Rockets.
If you don’t have one player that embodies, well, the Greatest Basketball Player Ever, two might even be better — shared responsibilities and all. That’s even more rare. Allen Iverson and Dikembe Mutombo repped the 76ers in The 2001 NBA Finals as the Maurice Podoloff Trophy winner and four-time winner of best defensive finger-wagger.