Definition of MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
- ️Tue Mar 18 2025
: the player who contributes the most to his or her team's success
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Four others, including MLS Cup most valuable player Gaston Brugman and forward Dejan Joveljc, who scored a playoff-high six goals, had to be traded to get the team under the league’s tight salary cap.
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Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025
The Chiefs’ annual most valuable player award went to an offensive lineman for the first time in nearly three decades.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2025
Massey, the game’s most valuable player, scored 16 points on 7 of 12 shooting and also had six rebounds.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2025
But what’s a nice rookie moment to an archetypal fourth-down highlight from the sport’s most valuable player?
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Most valuable player.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/most%20valuable%20player. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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Last Updated: 18 Mar 2025 - Updated example sentences
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