As in any year, the NBA was rich in interesting events in 2022 – both annual ones, such as trades, a draft, a championship series, and special ones: here is the Kyrie scandal, and the new celebration of Steph Curry that has become a meme, and even the perpetuation of № 6 in every NBA club in memory of Bill Russell.
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But the most popular event in 2022 in the league is the renaming of awards and trophies. By the way, Bill Russell himself has a personalized prize for a long time – the NBA Finals MVP trophy. But in general, there were few such awards in the league: several in honor of ex-NBA commissioners and club managers, a couple in honor of coaches, and only five in honor of the players.
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The NBA now gives the Kobe Bryant award
Some of the options were so obvious that, after a while, the NBA really gave the great players of the past the highest honor: secured their awards for them.
The project to rename – and at the same time redesign – the trophies was supposed to come true last season, it would have been timed to coincide with the league’s 75th anniversary. But the year before last, a covid pause, a compressed calendar and other problems forced the NBA to move these plans forward a year.
And in 2022, we received 18 (!) new personal awards. More precisely, some of them are old, but either had no name other than a technical one, or bore the name of another person. But completely new prizes were also invented.
In late May, the NBA gave the Community Service Award a new name in honor of recently deceased center Bob Lanier. Until the mid-2010s, the owner of this award was entitled to the «David Robinson Plaque of Honor», but in recent years this plate, given monthly, has disappeared somewhere, and the laureates at the end of the year began to receive an unnamed glass statuette. Well, as «nameless» – branded by the sponsor Kia.
And last week, the NBA introduced a new design for the usual awards. The Basketball Basket Crystal Figure will be awarded to the winner of the Dumars, Twyman-Stokes, Best Coach of the Season and Best General Manager. They differ only in engraving and a golden figurine inside.
NBA MVP is now the Michael Jordan Trophy
At first they doubted, and the reasons are as follows: firstly, Michael is the current owner of one of the NBA clubs (Charlotte), and it is a little embarrassing to receive a prize named after a representative of a competing team (it is unlikely that Hornets players will often be recognized as MVP) . Another, more prosaic reason for doubt: Jordan is a sub-brand of Nike, and while it’s now the official NBA outfitter, it won’t always be. We are used to the fact that the league always tries in advance to avoid any possible corporate conflicts.
But all these doubts were crumpled up and thrown into the ballot box more precisely than Michael threw free throws with his eyes closed. Jordan has his 60th birthday next February, and this is a great gift, especially since there were no other candidates left – Russell, Karim, Magic, Byrd, Kobe have their own personalized trophies. And it makes sense that the Most Valuable Player award is named after the player, not the manager or coach.
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