Michael Jordan won five NBA Most Valuable Player awards during his career.
His regular-season MVP seasons were 1987–88, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1995–96, and 1997–98. The awards span both major phases of his Chicago Bulls career: his rise to superstardom in the late 1980s and the championship-dominant Bulls teams of the 1990s.
Jordan’s five regular-season MVPs are separate from his six NBA Finals MVP awards, which he won in each of Chicago’s six championship seasons. That distinction causes many trivia mistakes: six is the correct number for Finals MVPs, while five is the correct number for the league’s regular-season MVP award.
Jordan’s five regular-season awards placed him among the most decorated players in NBA history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award six times, while Bill Russell also won five. Beginning with the 2022–23 season, the regular-season MVP trophy was renamed the Michael Jordan Trophy, honoring the player whose career included five MVP victories, six championships, and six Finals MVP awards.