Tiffany celebrates Knicks title with gold vermeil Larry O’Brien Trophy

The Knicks’ first NBA championship since 1973 did more than end a 53-year drought. It turned Tiffany & Co.’s Larry O’Brien Trophy into a bright, citywide piece of jewelry theater, with 24k gold vermeil, a Fifth Avenue flagship display and all the swagger of a trophy designed to read like a sculptural object, not just a sports award.

Tiffany’s redesigned championship trophy stands 25.5 inches tall and weighs 29 pounds. It features a regulation-size basketball and has room on its two-level cylindrical base for the next 25 years of champions, along with the names of previous winners. The company says the trophy was handcrafted in Rhode Island, a detail that matters in the same way it does for a finely finished bangle or a carefully executed setting: the object’s authority comes from the work behind the shine. Tiffany first redesigned the NBA championship trophy in 2022, after the original Larry O’Brien Trophy was renamed in 1984 for the former NBA commissioner.

The Knicks earned the trophy with a 94-90 Game 5 win over the San Antonio Spurs in the 2026 NBA Finals, taking the series 4-1. Jalen Brunson was named Finals MVP, and James Dolan lifted the trophy immediately after the clinching win, telling New York, “I’m sorry it took so long!” When the team returned to New York, Brunson carried the trophy off the chartered plane, a scene that pushed the championship from arena victory into public spectacle. Later, the Knicks brought the Larry O’Brien Trophy to NBC’s “Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon, extending the moment well beyond the locker room.

For jewelry watchers, the more interesting shift is how naturally this kind of sports coronation folds into the language of adornment. Tiffany said it would display the trophy on the sixth floor of The Landmark for the week, and the building was illuminated in Knicks colors, orange and blue, turning the flagship into a civic display case. That is exactly the kind of crossover that can sharpen appetite for trophy-coded gold: high-shine yellow metal, vermeil finishes, bold chains, oversized hoops and victory-symbol pieces that signal celebration without needing a scoreboard. The appeal is not subtle, and that is the point. In a season shaped by spectacle, gold looks less like ornament and more like a public declaration.