As we all know, the All-Star Weekend in each season in the NBA League is a highly entertaining mid-season league feast, including rookie games, dunk games, skills games, three-point games and the most eye-catching All-Star games. The players who can be selected for the All-Star Game are all stars who performed extremely well in the season. Therefore, bringing such outstanding stars together to perform through entertainment is definitely a visual feast. Therefore, the All-Star Game will also select the most valuable players of the game based on the match results and player performance, that is, the All-Star Game MVP, and award trophys.
All-Star MVP trophy has always been the crystal transparent trophy in the picture above. In history, the league has specially customized the trophy twice for special purposes and significance, but once it was disrupted and failed to achieve the customization purpose. Another time, it can be said that the winner is well deserved. Let's review the story of these two special AMVP trophys.
2003 All-Star MVP trophy is the largest trophy in the league in history, and it is also the first time the league has specially customized trophy. The reason why the league customized such a trophy this year has a purpose.
2002-03 season is the retirement year of Michael Jordan, the "God of Basketball" and the last year of Jordan's career. The theme of this All-Star Game is "Sending off Jordan". The league specially arranged for famous singers to sing in midfield in the Jordan jersey. Therefore, the purpose of the league customizing this special All-Star Game MVP trophy is self-evident, in order to pay tribute to Jordan and hope that he can win this specially customized trophy.
Jordan played for the Washington Wizards that season and was successfully selected for the Eastern Conference All-Star lineup, and was pushed into the starting lineup after negotiations. Jordan also worked very hard to complete his curtain show. When there were only 4.8 seconds left in the first overtime, Jordan helped the Eastern Conference All-Star team lead the Western Conference All-Star team 138-136 with a fallback jump shot, scoring 20 points alone.
If the game ends here, there is no doubt that the league can deliver the special trophy to Jordan as it wishes, but Kobe came out to disrupt the situation at the last moment. In the remaining 4.8 seconds, Kobe caused a three-point foul and equalized the score through a free throw, and the game entered the second overtime.
. In the second overtime, Jordan did not choose to continue playing. As a result, the Western Conference All-Star team finally defeated the Eastern Conference All-Star team. Kevin Garnett of the Western Conference scored 37 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists in the game and was elected as the All-Star MVP. He also took the opportunity to win such a unique trophy originally specially made for Jordan.
The second special All-Star MVP trophy of the league is this year's 2022 All-Star Game. This special trophy is just to pay tribute to the great basketball sport Kobe who has left forever. Therefore, the league renamed the All-Star MVP trophy, and the All-Star MVP trophy is also named after Kobe.
This special All-Star MVP trophy is full of Kobe's design elements. The four-layer trophy is designed:
- , the first layer of 24 stars, symbolizing a total of 24 All-Star players from all over the East and West to participate in the All-Star Game, and also represents Kobe's No. 24 jersey number.
- second floor 10 stars represent the No. 10 jersey number of Kobe's national team.
- has 5 stars in the third layer, representing Kobe's 5 career championships.
- has one star on the top of the fourth floor, which means Kobe won 1 regular season MVP in his career.
In the All-Star Game in 2022, Stephen Curry of James made 16 three-pointers in the game, scoring 50 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, breaking the All-Star Game scoring record by 2 points. In the end, under Curry's bombing, James defeated Durant 163-160, and Curry won the MVP of the All-Star Game without any suspense, holding up the league's specially made All-Star MVP trophy.
It is worthy of Curry's title. After all, Curry can be said to be the most successful player in the past decade. Not only did he change the league's style of play alone, he also led the Warriors to complete the feat of four championships in eight years. 2022 is also a year of great harvest in Curry. Not only did he harvest this special All-Star MVP trophy, but he also won the first Western Conference Finals MVP trophy in history and his first finals MVP trophy.
This may also be Curry’s most noble tribute to the great star Kobe!
This may also be Curry’s most noble tribute to the great star Kobe!
