The National Basketball Association All-Star Game MVP Award has been permanently renamed in honour of the late Kobe Bryant.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be presented to the most valuable player at the end of the 2020 NBA All-Star Game.
Bryant, an 18-time All-Star who won a record-tying four All-Star Game MVP awards, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles on Jan. 26. He was 41.
