Antetokounmpo wins MVP for second straight year
Giannis Antetokounmpo's historic year earned him a historic awards sweep.
The Milwaukee forward is the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive season, receiving that award Friday. He got the Defensive Player of the Year award earlier in these NBA playoffs.
The 25- year-old Antetokounmpo becomes just the third player in league history to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season, joining only Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon.
Antetokounmpo — who was in his native Athens, Greece, with his family when the award was announced — received 85 votes from the 100-person panel of global sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league, plus the one additional vote granted by winning fan balloting.
The Thunder's Chris Paul finished seventh.
HEAT 106, CELTICS 101:
Goran Dragic scored 25 points to help lead Miami to a Game 2 win Thursday night of the Eastern Conference Finals. Kemba Walker scored 23 points in defeat for Boston. The Celtics are now down 2-0 in the series after blowing a 17-point first half lead and a five-point lead with 4:25 remaining in the game on Thursday night. Dropping the first two games of the East finals to the Heat, obviously, isn't the ideal scenario for the Celtics. But they've had chances to win both games — and might be getting Gordon Hayward back Saturday night, when they'll have the opportunity to get right back into this series.