Basketball's Best

Basketball's Best

Photograph

Basil C. Levine

Maker
American, 1928–2011

Basketball's Best

1984
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 13/16 × 11 7/8 in. (25 × 30.2 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0037
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on paper taped to verso and folded to recto BC: BASKETBALL'S BEST -- North Carolina forward Michael Jordan (left) accepts the \ Eastman Award from Bill Koch, vice president and general manager of Kodak's Motion \ Picture & Audiovisual Markets Division, after being named the country's top collegiate \ basketball player in voting by the National Basketball Coaches Association. Jordan \ was awarded the Eastman trophy Tuesday ata New York City news conference. He is \ only the second junior ever to receive the prestigious award, regarded as the basket- \ ball equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. The other junior was Ralph Samson of Virginia, \ who won the Eastman Award in 1982 amd [sic] 1983. \ -0- \ From: John A. DeMilia \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY \ Slug: BASKETBALL'S BEST \ Neg. No.: EK 210-R1-30A \ 32784
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
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