NBA names All-Star MVP award after Kobe Bryant

STACY REVERE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

The NBA has renamed its All-Star Game MVP trophy after Kobe Bryant who died last month.

It would now be known as the Kobe Bryant All-Star Game MVP Award. 

Adam Silver, the NBA’s Commissioner, unveiled the newly-minted trophy at his annual All-Star weekend news conference in Chicago.

Bryant made 18 consecutive All-Star Games from 1998 to 2016, and won the game’s MVP four times – in 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011.

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