{"id":624438,"date":"2026-04-22T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624438\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:24:10","slug":"spurs-keldon-johnson-named-2025-26-kia-nba-sixth-man-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624438\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; Keldon Johnson named 2025-26 Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2173450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/16x9-safezonesixth_v2-1568x882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"882\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs guard-forward Keldon Johnson has been named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year, earning the John Havlicek Trophy.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">San Antonio Spurs guard-forward Keldon Johnson has been named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year, earning the John Havlicek Trophy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IpSvsiHNQ9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IpSvsiHNQ9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2047073798659182937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson set a Spurs franchise record with 1,081 bench points this season. He passed Manu Gin\u00f3bili, who scored 927 in 2007-08 \u2013 his Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year season.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson joins Gin\u00f3bili as the only two players to win the award with San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Voting Results<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2173459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HGis-BbXcAAV5TJ-941x1176.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"1176\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs guard-forward Keldon Johnson has been named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,25467,590,302472,85],"class_list":["post-624438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-keldon-johnson","tag-nba","tag-nba-sixth-man-of-the-year","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}