The jeweler also unveiled a refreshed MVP award and four other new post-season trophies.
As much of Solomon’s work has been about celebrating basketball, the collab is a natural fit. So too is the partnership between the NBA and Tiffany. The luxury titan, which has been handcrafting trophies at its hollowware workshop in Rhode Island for the past 160 years, has been supplying the NBA glitzy grails for nearly half a century. As the lineup of new annual trophies shows, though, it’s good to keep things fresh.
Solomon, who worked on the line for two years with the NBA and then refined it further with Tiffany, toldhis favorite element of the new Larry O’Brien Trophy is the two-part cylindrical base that honors the past while welcoming the future. “On the surface of the top layer, we’ve etched all previous championship-winning teams and corresponding years and the second layer has open real estate to etch the next 25 champions—designed to take us up to the 100th anniversary of the league,” the artist said via email.The work didn’t stop there, either. The MVP award, named after legendary baller Bill Russell since 2009, has also been revamped and finished in the same gold vermeil to showcase the intricacies.
“No one else has ever attempted a holistic overhaul like this before and think the full family of honors we’ve created incorporates a lineage to the great’s past, creative innovation and considered storytelling like never before,” the artist adds.The Oscar Robertson Western Conference Trophy. The Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP Trophy.
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