The NBA is renaming its annual regular-season MVP award after Michael Jordan, the player who topped ESPN's ranking of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team named last season.
The league unveiled the newly designed Michael Jordan Trophy Tuesday along with five other reimagined trophies named after league pioneers that will now be presented to the NBA's end-of-season performance award winners.
Jordan was a five-time winner of the MVP award during his 15-season career. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, for whom the league's Social Justice Champion award is named, won more MVP trophies (six).
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic will retroactively receive the first version of the new trophy after being named MVP in 2021-22.