Westley Sissel Unseld (born March 14, 1946) is an American former basketball player.
 He spent his entire NBA career with the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988.
The 1978 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1977-78 season.
 The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets defeating the Western Conference champion Seattle SuperSonics 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.
 Wes Unseld was named NBA Finals MVP.
 To date, it remains the only NBA title that the Bullets (since renamed the Wizards) have won.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers.
 During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member.
 A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP.
 In 1996, he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
 NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time.
The 1978 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1977–78 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs.
 The series featured the Western Conference champion Seattle SuperSonics against the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets.
 The Bullets defeated the SuperSonics in seven games to win the NBA championship.
 Bullets power forward/center Wes Unseld was named MVP of the series.
 Before the Cleveland Cavaliers' Game 7 win at Golden State in the 2016 NBA Finals, this was the last time a road team had won Game 7 in the NBA Finals.
 The 1978 Finals is the only NBA Finals series since the 1958 NBA Finals in which both teams had under 50 wins.
 The 1979 Finals are the only NBA Finals to feature two teams with under 50 wins in an 82-game season.
Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr. ( ; born January 17, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 After a successful college career at Marquette, Wade was drafted fifth overall in the 2003 NBA draft by the Miami Heat.
 He was named to the All-Rookie team and the All-Star team the following twelve seasons.
 In his third season, Wade led the Heat to their first NBA championship in franchise history and was named the 2006 NBA Finals MVP.
 At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Wade led the United States men's basketball team, commonly known as the "Redeem Team", in scoring, and helped them capture gold medal honors in Beijing, China.
 In the 2008–09 season, Wade led the league in scoring and earned his first NBA scoring title.
 With LeBron James and Chris Bosh, Wade guided Miami to four consecutive NBA Finals from 2011 to 2014, winning back-to-back championships in 2012 and 2013.
 In 2016, Wade departed the Heat in free agency to play for his hometown Chicago Bulls, then leaving them after one season to join the Cavaliers.
Keven McDonald (born June 2, 1956) is an American former basketball player who is best known for his collegiate career at the University of Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1978.
 He won the Robert V. Geasey Trophy as a junior and was named the Ivy League Player of the Year as a senior.
 Following his career at Penn, McDonald was selected in the 1978 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics as the 42nd overall pick.
Elgin Gay Baylor (born September 16, 1934) is an American former basketball player, coach, and executive.
 He played 13 seasons as a small forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis / Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in eight NBA Finals.
 Baylor was a gifted shooter, strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer.
 Renowned for his acrobatic maneuvers on the court, Baylor regularly dazzled Lakers fans with his trademark hanging jump shots.
 The No. 1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, 11-time NBA All-Star, and an 10-time member of the All-NBA first team, he is regarded as one of the game's all-time greatest players.
 In 1977, Baylor was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The 2013–14 San Antonio Spurs season was the 47th season of the franchise, their 41st in San Antonio and the 38th in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 They entered the season with an NBA-record ten international players.
 This season also marked the first time that the Spurs have made back-to-back Finals appearances, also against the Miami Heat, whom they lost against in last year's NBA Finals in seven games and suffered their first loss in the NBA Finals.
 Unlike the previous year, the Spurs avenged their NBA Finals loss and became NBA Champions after defeating Miami in five games, winning their fifth NBA Championship.
 The Spurs outscored the Heat in the series by the largest per game average point differential (14.0) in Finals history.
 San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard was named the Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP).
Hugh Evans is a former basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 28 seasons from 1972 to 2001.
 During his NBA officiating career, Evans worked 1,969 regular season NBA games and 35 NBA Finals games.
 During the 1995–96 NBA season, Evans was ranked the second best official in the league by coaches, general managers, and NBA Senior Vice President, Basketball Operations Rod Thorn.
 His final game was Game 4 of the 2001 NBA Finals, played at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 13, 2001.
 Evans wore the uniform number 25 during his career in the NBA.
 He currently serves as an assistant supervisor of officials in the NBA front office.
Jerry Ray Lucas (born March 30, 1940) is an American former basketball player and memory education expert.
 He was a nationally-awarded high school player, national college star at Ohio State, and 1960 gold medal Olympian and international player before starring as a professional player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 As a collegian, Lucas led the Ohio State Buckeyes to the 1960 college national championship and three straight NCAA finals.
 He remains today the only three-time Big Ten Player of the Year, and was also twice named NCAA Player of the Year.
 As a professional, Lucas was named All-NBA First Team three times, a NBA All-Star seven times, was 1964 NBA Rookie of the Year, and was named Most Valuable Player of the 1965 NBA All-Star Game among other honors and awards.
 He was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Question: What is the middle name of the American former basketball player who was named MVP of the 1978 NBA Finals?
Answer: Sissel