Kobe Bryant continues to receive honors from the NBA in order to raise the career and name of the American so that he remains present on the court and in the memory of all fans for all eternity.
On this occasion, the NBA and the company KIA redesigned the trophy for the Most Valuable Player of the All-Star Game and it will continue to bear the name of Kobe Bryant, but it will be more inspired by the trajectory of “Black Mamba” .
The trophy is made up of four levels to remember the occasions in which he won it in his career, also being the player who has achieved this distinction the most times. While the base will be an octagon, with eight faces to remember Kobe’s first number and the eight decades of NBA All-Star Games.
Likewise, the levels of the award will be made up as follows: the first, there are 24 figures of crystal stars, elongated, which represent the number of the second half of the race of the player and they are seven inches tall, a memory of Kobe’s MVP in the All Star of 2007.
The second contains 10 elongated stars, which recognize the ten starts of the game and the number with which Kobe he won two gold medals at the Olympics with the Dream Team. These stars measure nine inches to remember the American’s MVP in 2009.
For the third level, five stars, one for each Kobe championship with the Los Angeles Lakers; these will be eleven inches tall in honor of their All-Star Game MVP from 2011.
On the fourth and last step, there will be a single star, for the Kobe Bryant’s Most Valuable Award of the Season 2007-2008. It measures two inches, also because of the pair of Most Valuable Player distinctions at the end of the American’s career.
In this way, the All-Star Game of this 2022 will be much more special, since it will be held in Cleveland, home of LeBron James and because A trophy will be released that will shine from the first moment. In addition to being an honor for any player to add the name of Kobe Bryant to his record.
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