The 2025 Finals winner joins an exclusive club of asterisked NBA champions

Alt: Chris Farley, portraying El Niño, and saying el niño is spanish for the niño

Chad Posthumus proudly spent the last two years of his life as the face of the Winnipeg Sea Bears franchise, a responsibility he embodied on and off the court every day.

Alt: A scene from the 1988 epic film "Bloodsport", Frank Dux (played by the legendary Jean-Claude Van Damme) demonstrates the Dim Mak, or "Death touch" whereby he palmstrikes a column of 5 bricks, and the force of his blow is so focused and so magnificent that the impact of the blow is transferred all the way to the bottom brick, crushing it while leaving the other 4, including the one he physically struck, completely unharmed.

Alt: a man in a red jacket is talking about paying his money