updated 11:09 a.m. ET April 27, 2006

PHOENIX - Steve Nash will be named the NBA’s most valuable player for the second year in a row, The Arizona Republic and TNT, reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper cited a league source familiar with the voting, but said the official announcement may not come for two weeks.

The NBA did not comment on the report, posted on the Republic’s Web site Wednesday.

The Phoenix Suns playmaker would become the 10th player to win the award in consecutive seasons.

“Anytime you sit back and think about just winning it once, it’s mind-boggling — the company and what it means in the history of the game,” Nash said after Wednesday’s shootaround. “To win it twice obviously just compounds that. It’s just an incredible honor. I think it’s a tribute to what this game allows people to do if they work hard.”

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Nash, 32, won his first MVP award last season, when he directed the Suns to an NBA-best 62 victories. This year, the Suns lost Amare Stoudemire to injury, and traded away Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson.

Still, Phoenix repeated as Pacific Division champion, winning 54 games.

The East Valley Tribune of Mesa reported Monday that a survey of 75 of the 127 writers and broadcasters who vote for MVP showed Nash with a sizable lead over runner-up LeBron James in the voting.

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This season, Nash had career highs in scoring (18.8 points), rebounding (4.2), field goal percentage (.512) and free throw percentage (a league-leading .921). He led the league in assists at 10.5 per game and finished sixth in 3-point percentage at 43.9.

“He had another great year,” Phoenix coach Mike D’Antoni said before Wednesday night’s playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers. “The guy’s playing at an unbelievably high level. To be in the running for two years in a row is an incredible honor. To win it two years in a row is unbelievable.”

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