J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award
The J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to a player, coach, or staff member who showed "outstanding service and dedication to the community."
Dikembe Mutombo is the only person to have won the award twice.
Magic Johnson won the award in the 1991–92 NBA season.
LeBron James won the award in the 2016–17 season.
Stephen Curry won the award in the 2022–23 season.
Vlade Divac is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player who was most recently the vice president of basketball operations and general manager of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Divac in 2016
Divac (fourth from right, at centre) with the Yugoslavia team that won the EuroBasket 1989.
Divac is one of seven players in NBA history to record 13,000 points, 9,000 rebounds, 3,000 assists, and 1,500 blocked shots.
Vlade Divac (rear, center) alongside Crown Prince Alexander II in 2005, at an event for World Heart Day