NBA MVP Steph Curry just accomplished something Michael Jordan never did

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Steph Curry now has bragging rights over Michael Jordan.

The Warriors superstar is the first unanimous MVP in NBA history, sweeping all 131 first-place votes.

Jordan won five MVPs in his brilliant career, but the closest he came to being the unanimous winner was four votes shy in 1995-96 (Jordan had 109 of 113 possible first-place votes - 96.4 percent).

Here is how Jordan fared in those other four MVP campaigns:

87-88: 47 of 80 first-place votes (58.8 percent)
90-91: 77 of 96 (80.2 percent)
91-92: 80 of 96 (83.3 percent)
97-98: 92 of 116 (79.3 percent)

Shaquille O'Neal was the closest to being a unanimous MVP, with 120 of 121 first-place votes in his 1999-2000 season (Allen Iverson had the other first-place vote).

In 2014-15, Curry took home 100 of 130 possible first-place votes.

Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Jordan, Tim Duncan, Steve Nash, LeBron James and now Curry are the only players to win the MVP Award in consecutive seasons.

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