Question: The Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 2014 NBA Finals was born in this year?

Context articles: 2014 NBA Finals
2000 NBA Finals
1984 NBA Finals
List of career achievements by Kobe Bryant
2013–14 NBA season
2013–14 San Antonio Spurs season
Kevin Durant
1998 NBA Finals
Kawhi Leonard
1978 NBA Finals

The 2014 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2013–14 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.
 The Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat in five games (4 games to 1) for the Spurs' fifth NBA championship in franchise history.
 The Spurs outscored the Heat in the series by the largest average point differential (14.0) in Finals history.
 San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard was named the Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP).
The 2000 NBA Finals was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1999–2000 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs.
 The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2.
 Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the series, his first of three consecutive honors.
 The series was played under a best-of-seven format, with the Lakers holding home court advantage.
 Until 2008, this was the most recent NBA Finals where both number one seeds from both conferences faced off in the final.
The 1984 NBA Finals, also known as Showdown '84, was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1983–84 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs.
 The Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeated the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers in a seven-game Finals, winning Game 7 111–102.
 Celtics forward Larry Bird averaged 27 points and 14 rebounds a game during the series, earning the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP).
 Bird was also named the league's regular season MVP for that year.
Kobe Bryant is an American retired shooting guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire 20-year career.
 Bryant is the only son of former Philadelphia 76ers player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe Bryant.
 Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.
 He and then-teammate Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002.
 After O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat following the 2003–04 season, Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers franchise.
 He led the NBA in scoring during the and seasons.
 In 2006, Bryant scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second-highest number of points scored in a game in NBA history, behind only Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point performance.
 Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in the 2007–08 season and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals as the first seed in the Western Conference.
 In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, occasionally referred to as "The Redeem Team".
 He led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, winning the Finals MVP award on both occasions.
The 2013–14 NBA season was the 68th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The regular season began on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 with the Indiana Pacers hosting a game against the Orlando Magic followed by the 2012–13 NBA champions Miami Heat hosting a game against the Chicago Bulls followed by the Los Angeles Lakers hosting a game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
 The 2014 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 16, 2014, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.
 Cleveland's Kyrie Irving won the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.
 The regular season ended on April 16, 2014, and the playoffs began on Saturday, April 19, 2014 and ended on June 15, 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs defeating the Miami Heat in five games to win the 2014 NBA Finals.
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).
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He has won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals.
 Durant has also been selected to seven All-NBA teams and eight NBA All-Star teams.
The 1998 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1998 playoffs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the conclusion of the 1997–98 NBA season.
 The Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls played against the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz, with the Jazz holding home-court advantage with the first 2 games in Salt Lake City.
 In a repeat of the previous year's Finals, the Bulls won the series 4 games to 2 for their third consecutive NBA title and their sixth in eight seasons.
 Michael Jordan was voted the NBA Finals MVP of the series (he also had won the award the last five times the Bulls won the Finals: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997).
 This would be his sixth NBA championship and sixth Finals MVP award in six full basketball seasons.
 Until 2014, it was the last consecutive Finals rematch between two teams.
Kawhi Anthony Leonard ( , born June 29, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He played two seasons of college basketball for San Diego State University before being selected with the 15th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers.
 He was then traded to San Antonio on draft night.
 Leonard won an NBA Championship with the Spurs in 2014 and was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player.
 He is a two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, having won in 2015 and 2016, and is a two-time All-NBA First Team member.
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.