Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson has won the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award, according to a league press release.
This is the first time Clarkson has won the award. He’s also the first Jazz player to be given the honor.
Clarkson, who re-signed with Utah last offseason for four years and $51MM, received 65 first-place votes and earned 407 total points from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. His teammate, forward Joe Ingles, finished in second place with 272 points (34 first-place votes). Knicks guard Derrick Rose finished third with 77 points (one first-place vote).
Clarkson averaged a career-high 18.4 PPG, 4.0 RPG and 2.5 APG in 26.7 MPG while appearing in 68 games. Playing his first full season with Utah and seventh in the NBA, Clarkson recorded two games with at least 40 points, five games with at least 30 points and 23 games with at least 20 points off the bench.
Montrezl Harrell, then with the Clippers, won the award last season. Lou Williams captured the honor with the Clippers the previous two seasons.
Mavericks teammates Jalen Brunson and Tim Hardaway rounded out the top five vote-getters for this year’s Sixth Man award. The full voting results can be found here.
Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images.
Captures? It was handed to him, by a teammate, in a rather endearing interview.
He was as obvious a choice as Jokić is for MVP…………
So we can say Ingles won the 7th man award then?
I got a good chuckle out of that.
What’s even funnier is all the votes that Melo got.
Monte Williams won the first award?
Coach of the year
He won the coaches association award, they haven’t announced the NBA coach of the year yet.
Thanks!
NBA should not allow two coaches to win one award
Let’s say Big Tom also win the Coach of the Year award
I’ve always thought of the Coaches association award as a combination of great person and great coach while the NBA award as the best coach in a given year regardless. It’s tough this year as Thibs did some amazing stuff with Knicks but Williams did a good job with the Sun’s and Snyder dis a good job with the Jazz.
The award Williams won is presented by the coach’s association and voted on by the other coaches.
Coach of the Year is voted on by sportswriters. They’re not related. The NBA doesn’t have the authority to ‘not allow’ anything related to the awards.
So
If there are 20 association votes, they would have 20 coach of the year awards
Lol
Clarkson won the award and deservedly so. Ingles should get some type of award though. He started at PG when Conley and Mitchell were out, started several games at SG when Mitchell was out, started at the 3 when they tried Bogey at the 4 to start the season. Came off the bench and played everything but Center all while hitting 45% of his 3s, running the offense at times and taking the 2nd hardest assignment on D every night.
The Jack award… jack of all trades
Ingles can get his participation trophy along with the rest of the Jazz when they get bounced from the playoffs
That could be a month away!
What does it say about the starting 5 of both the Jazz and the Mavericks when two players from each team finish in the top 5 in the voting for the SIXTH Man of the Year Award ??
I have no issue with Clarkson winning it, he deserved it, but the actual award makes less sense to me each year. Because it seems like we’re not really rewarding a bench player as much as a specific *type* of player year after year.
Are you a low efficiency high volume perimeter scorer or a big that can score quickly but can’t play D? Then you’re a 6th man. Which is fine I guess. But is it really about the bench portion or is the bench portion almost coincidental to being a one dimensional scorer at this point?
Should the L start awarding best 3+D starter? I’m not against it. It seems to make as much as the 6th man does at this point.