Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy

Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy
	Updated design introduced in 2022
Sport	Basketball
Competition	NBA playoffs
Awarded for	Winning the NBA Finals
History
First award	1977
First winner	Portland Trail Blazers
Most wins	Los Angeles Lakers (11)
Most recent	Denver Nuggets (1)
Website	NBA.com

The Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy is the championship trophy awarded annually by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to the winner of the NBA Finals. The trophy originally kept the Walter A. Brown Trophy name of its predecessor until being renamed in 1984.

The current design, depicting a basketball over a hoop and basket, was first awarded in 1977^[1] still under its original name, which was changed in honor of former NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien who served from 1975 to 1984. Before joining the NBA, O'Brien was the United States Postmaster General under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968.^[2]

^ "O'Brien acknowledges problem". The Star-News. May 16, 1977. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
^ "December 2004: Picture This". National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved October 17, 2008.

[1] "O'Brien acknowledges problem". The Star-News. May 16, 1977. Retrieved June 17, 2009.

[2] "December 2004: Picture This". National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved October 17, 2008.

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