{"id":573796,"date":"2026-03-31T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:16:08","slug":"jaylin-williams-nominated-for-this-2025-26-nba-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573796\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylin Williams nominated for this 2025-26 NBA award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Considering how the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have sat atop the NBA standings all season, expect them to be heavily featured again in this year’s batch of award races. Of course, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander headlines things by being a probable back-to-back MVP winner.<\/p>\n

Now, the Thunder have another surprising nominee for an NBA award that goes under the radar. The league announced on Tuesday that Jaylin Williams was a finalist for the 2025-26 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

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The annual honor recognizes the player deemed the best teammate based on selfless play, on-court and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players. And commitment and dedication to the team. There were 12 nominees, with six in each conference.<\/p>\n

The other 11 names were Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brunson, De’Aaron Fox, Desmond Bane, Jrue Holiday, Marcus Smart, Duncan Robinson, Pat Connaughton, Jeff Green, DeAndre Jordan and Garrett Temple.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t be a shocker to see Williams among the group. He’s enjoying a career season of 7.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists. It’s his best year yet as he’s established himself in OKC’s rotation. Personality-wise, he perfectly fits into this group’s vibes.<\/p>\n

Good to see Williams get some recognition for that from a national level. He’s low-key been one of OKC’s best development stories ever. He’s turned into a real weapon for them who can seamlessly scale up and down to whatever the Thunder need from him on a night-to-night basis.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: Jaylin Williams nominated for this 2025-26 NBA award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Considering how the Oklahoma City Thunder have sat atop the NBA standings all season, expect them to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,153914,10631,44389,14732,220456,19284,42525,3556,51167,6698,9472,459,81478,3555,79040,6691,82],"class_list":["post-573796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-de39aaron-fox","tag-deandre-jordan","tag-desmond-bane","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-garrett-temple","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-jaylin-williams","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-jeff-green","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nba","tag-nba-players","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-pat-connaughton","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}