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Sixth Man Award now named for Celtics legend John Havlicek

In an effort to honor NBA history and, presumably, to drive social media engagement, the league announced today that several awards trophies have been redesigned and renamed for some of its all-time greats.

The NBA is redesigning and renaming many of its individual awards.

The MVP is named after Jordan
The DPOY is named after Olajuwon
The ROY is named after Wilt
The MIP is named after Mikan
The 6th Man is named after Havlicek
And there's a new Clutch award named after Jerry West pic.twitter.com/Y3HFo2qkYm— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) December 13, 2022

The NBA today unveiled six newly designed trophies named after NBA legends, which will be presented to the end-of-season Kia Performance Award winners.