Kobe Bryant Awards and Honors

The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games. Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively.

Kobe Bryant, an All-NBA First Team selection for the eighth straight season, scored 2,133 points, averaging 27.3 points. This season, he moved past Wilt Chamberlain for fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list. Additionally, Bryant eclipsed the 2,000-point mark in a single season for the eighth time in his 17-year NBA career, in the process becoming just the fourth player in NBA history to score 2,000 points in a season at age 34 or older, joining Alex English, Jordan and Malone, each of whom did so twice.

The Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award (formerly known as the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1969 NBA Finals. The award is decided by a panel of nine media members, who cast votes after the conclusion of the Finals. The person with the highest votes wins the award. In at least one NBA Finals, fans balloting on NBA accounted for the tenth vote. The award was originally a black trophy with a gold basketball-shaped sphere at the top, similar to the Larry O'Brien Trophy, until a new trophy was introduced in 2005.

The Naismith Prep Player of the Year award, named for Canadian-American basketball inventor James Naismith, is given annually by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to high school basketball's top male and female player. The inaugural awards were given to Dennis Scott and Lynne Lorenzen in 1987.

Kobe Bryant's powers on the court may have waned in his advancing years, but he still has the support of his peers, hollywood life can exclusively reveal. Will they help the 5-time NBA champ win the NBA All-Star Game MVP on Feb. 14? Click here to find out!

Kobe Bryant finally won the MVP on Tuesday after leading the Lakers to the West's best record.

PointAfter created a Ballhog Index to measure which players depend on themselves above all else. Who is Kobe Bryant's most appropriate heir apparent?

Kobe Bryant's 81 points from his historic Jan. 22, 2006 game against the Raptors are 10 more than anyone else of his era. (Davis Robinson had 71 in 1994 on the final day of the season to snatch a scoring title away from Shaquille O'Neal.

The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1955â??56 NBA season to the best performing player of the regular season. The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named in honor of the first NBA commissioner (then president) of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.