The most memorable MVP voting results in NBA history

MIAMI - Here's Stephen Curry's year in a nutshell. A record 402 3-pointers, all 131 MVP first-place votes, and zero doubt.

The only intrigue surrounding the voting for this year's NBA MVP wasn't if the Golden State guard would win again, but if he would get every first-place vote. And he did, becoming the first unanimous winner. LeBron James was one vote from achieving that in 2013 and Shaquille O'Neal was also one vote short in the 2000 balloting.

So Curry enters a club all his own in the NBA, and a very rare club when combining the four major U.S. pro sports leagues.

Tom Brady is the only unanimous winner of The Associated Press NFL MVP award, getting that in 2010 - three years after falling one vote short of sweeping the balloting. And Wayne Gretzky got all 63 first-place votes for the NHL's Hart Trophy in 1982, the only person in his sport to get every first-place nod.

Baseball has 17 unanimous MVP picks. The AL has 10, the last Mike Trout in 2014. In the NL, there's been seven, most recently Bryce Harper last season.

Here's a look at some of the more memorable MVP voting results in NBA history:

2015-16: Curry gets all 131 first-place votes to become the NBA's first unanimous MVP.

2012-13: LeBron James got 120 of 121 first-place votes. The other went to Carmelo Anthony, who finished third. Kevin Durant took second, with no first-place nod.

2004-05: Steve Nash's first of two straight MVPs comes in a close race over Shaquille O'Neal. Nash got 65 first-place votes, O'Neal 58.

2003-04: Kevin Garnett was within three votes of being the first unanimous MVP. He got 120, while Jermaine O'Neal got two (finishing third) and Peja Stojakovic got one (finishing fourth). Runner-up Tim Duncan got no first-place votes.

2001-02: Duncan won without a majority of the first-place votes. He got 57 of the 126 cast, while Jason Kidd gets 45, Shaquille O'Neal gets 15, Tracy McGrady gets seven, and Kobe Bryant and Gary Payton get one apiece.

1999-2000: Shaquille O'Neal got 120 of 121 first-place votes. The other went to Allen Iverson, and he only finished seventh.

1998-99: A trio of big men emerged as the favorites, and Karl Malone got the award after pulling in 44 first-place votes - enough to narrowly edge Alonzo Mourning (36) and Tim Duncan (30).

1996-97: Michael Jordan beat Karl Malone in the NBA Finals that year, but not the MVP race. Malone got 63 first-place votes to help him edge runner-up Jordan, who got 52.

1995-96: Michael Jordan got 109 of 113 first-place votes to win in a runaway, but not a unanimous decision. Anfernee Hardaway was the first-place pick of two voters (he finished third), while Hakeem Olajuwon (fourth) and Karl Malone (seventh) got single first-place votes.

1989-90: Charles Barkley got more first-place votes than anyone else but didn't get enough points to win. He finished second to Magic Johnson, who got 27 first-place votes. Barkley got 38, Michael Jordan (21 first-place votes) finished third - and four other players got at least one first-place nod.