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A Review Of The Larry O’Brien Trophy, Or Anyway A Larry O’Brien Trophy

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Imagine how good it would feel to pluck the regulation-size basketball off the top of the Larry O'Brien trophy and get some shots up. Sure, you'd need to adjust your jump shot to account for its construction—sterling silver with a 24-karat gold vermeil—and you'd need a brave rebounder. I suppose you wouldn't be doing much "off the dribble." But when presented with such an exquisite basketball, one simply has to line up the seams and let it fly. That temptation was top of mind Monday as I examined the NBA championship trophy at the American Museum of Natural History, where it was unveiled as part of the ongoing exhibit "For the Win: Objects of Sports Excellence." The trophy was actually bound for the Manhattan museum no matter who won it in June. As museum president Sean Decatur said at its unveiling, they had already been in talks with the NBA for months, and it was agreed that it'd be loaned out after the season. Only by happy coincidence was it won by a team that plays about 50 city

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