Name a winner of the NBA Most Valuable Player award: rare answers

We accept 38 answers to “Name a winner of the NBA Most Valuable Player award” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Bob Pettit, Willis Reed and Wes Unseld score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 38
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 13 (34%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 16 different; B is the most common (5)

🐙 Abyssal: 4 answers (11%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 9 answers (24%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 12 answers (32%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 10 answers (26%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

4 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: Bob Pettit, Willis Reed, Wes Unseld and Dave Cowens. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Bob Pettit, Willis Reed, Wes Unseld, Dave Cowens

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Joel Embiid, Julius Erving, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Moses Malone, Bill Walton, Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson, David Robinson, Bob McAdoo

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Bill Russell, Russell Westbrook, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan, James Harden, Nikola Jokić, Derrick Rose, Karl Malone, Dirk Nowitzki, Hakeem Olajuwon, Steve Nash, Kevin Garnett

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Shaquille O'Neal, Stephen Curry, Lew Alcindor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Durant, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Wilt Chamberlain, Charles Barkley

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.