NBA official announcement: Holiday wins the Social Justice Championship Award and compares Curry with two awards this season

NBA officially announced the 2024-25 Social Justice Championship Award, and Celtics champion guard Ju Holiday won the award. He defeated four competitors, Adebayo, McCollum, Barnes and Buchel, and was the second defender player to win such honors after Curry. In addition, Ju Holiday also won the League Sports Ethics and Style Award this season. The full name of the NBA Social Justice Champion Award is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s “Social Justice Champion Award”, aiming to pay tribute to NBA Hall of Fame member Jabbar and his lifelong commitment to promoting influential change in the field of social justice. This award will be set up in 2021 with the goal of honoring players who uphold the NBA's values ​​of fairness, respect and inclusion.

Now, the Celtics two-time champion guard Ju Holiday, won the NBA Social Justice Championship Award for the first time in his career, and is also the second guard player after Curry to win such an award.

Ju Holiday was able to win the NBA Social Justice Championship Award this year. The four competitors he defeated were Heat center Adebayo, Spurs forward Barnes, Raptors center Boucher, and Pelicans defender McCollum.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Holiday has previously won the League Sports Ethics and Style Award this season, and he has won two grand prizes this season.

NBA Social Justice Champion Award winners:

2021: Anthony

2022: Brock

2023: Curry

2024: Towns

2025: Zhu Holiday

It is worth mentioning that the NBA official will donate $100,000 to the charity foundation founded by Zhu Holiday and his wife for charity.