Played for 82 games and won the MVP? Only 3 people did it in the 21st century, namely Duncan Garnett Kobe

Last season's regular season, Alexander averaged 32.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game, and led the Thunder to a proud record of 68 wins, thus successfully defeating Jokic, who averaged triple-double, and successfully won his first MVP in his career.

It is worth mentioning that Alexander's attendance rate is not low, playing in a total of 76 regular season games, missing only 6 games, of which 3 were still on the final stage of the round rest. For Alexander, who has won the MVP, it is not easy to maintain such a high attendance rate. In the 23-24 season, Jokic won the MVP and maintained a very high attendance rate, and only missed three regular season games in total. However, the attendance rate of MVP Embiid in the 22-23 season is not very high. He only played 66 games in total, and he just reached the minimum number of appearances. If he played two less games, he would not be able to participate in the MVP competition.

It is precisely because the attendance rate is also important that there is a requirement to play at least 65 games before participating in the selection of major awards. Because the pace of the game is very fast and the injuries are more frequent, there are fewer and fewer players who can maintain full attendance in a season, and even fewer players who can get MVP in full attendance. From the 21st century to the present, only Duncan, Garnett and Kobe have played in the regular season games for 82 games and won MVP. Going back to Jordan.

Duncan has two consecutive MVPs in the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons, and his attendance rate in these two seasons is very high, playing 82 games in one season and 81 games in the other season, missing only one regular season game. Just in the 2003-04 season, Garnett won the only MVP in his career, and also played 82 regular season games. Kobe also successfully won the MVP in the 2007-08 season and maintained the entire game, without absent from a 82 regular season games.

Although only the above three players are full-time MVPs in the 21st century, several MVPs also have high attendance rates, missing only one regular season game, namely James in 2008-09, Rose in 2011, Durant in 2013-14, and Westbrook in 2016-17. In addition, Nash in the 2005-06 season, Nowitzki in the 2008-07 season, Curry in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, and Jokic in the 23-24 season, missed within 5 games while winning the MVP.

In general, most MVPs have relatively high attendance rates, because players with too low attendance rates have no advantages in the competition for MVPs, and will also affect the team's performance. Therefore, if you want to get an MVP, in addition to performing brilliantly, you must also maintain health and attendance.