The NBA presented the Podoloff Trophy to the best regular season team

The top basketball league will present five awards for the best team of the year. The distinction will have the collaboration of the artist Víctor Salomon.

The NBA presented the new trophy this Tuesday Maurice Podoloffdedicated to the first delegate in the history of the championship and created in collaboration with the artist Victor Solomonwhat From this year it will reward the best team in the regular season.

Maurizio Podoloff It is part of a series of five trophies that will be awarded at the end of this season.which also includes the award for sportsmanship, for the best teammate, for the best coach and for the best coach.

The main novelty is the Podoloff Trophy, which will be awarded to the team with the best balance in the regular season and which represents a crystal ball cut into 82 panels, supported on a pedestal with two rings to symbolize the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference.

To whom the sportsmanship trophy was dedicated Joe Dumarlegend of Detroit Pistons and winner of the first edition of this award, in season 1995-1996. The prize represents two players shaking hands.

The best teammate will receive the Twyman-Stokes Prize, in honor of Jack Twyman’s gesture of support for his teammate Maurice Stokes after he sustained a serious injury.

The trophy a best coach has the name of Auerbach redlegend of Boston Celticswhile the best coach will be awarded with a trophy representing a five-sided pyramid, like the five players on the team.

The NBA has redesigned each of these five trophies and renewed their collaboration with artist Victor Solomon, who he has already collaborated with the League on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, celebrated last year.

Source and photo: EFE