Derrick White of the Boston Celtics is the NBA\u2019s Sportsmanship Award winner for this season, as selected by his fellow players across the league.<\/p>\n
White got 20% of the first-place votes from the 386 players who cast ballots. TJ McConnell of the Indiana Pacers \u2014 who actually got more first-place votes, almost 22% \u2014 was second, while Harrison Barnes of the San Antonio Spurs was third and Al Horford of the Golden State Warriors was fourth.<\/p>\n
Barnes and Horford both got 19% of the first-place votes that were cast.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat (11% of first-place votes) was fifth and Oklahoma City\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander \u2014 the only repeat finalist from last season \u2014 was sixth after getting just under 10% of the first-place votes.<\/p>\n
White will receive the Joe Dumars Trophy, named for the Basketball Hall of Famer, a two-time champion and the inaugural winner of the sportsmanship award after the 1995-96 season. Dumars now leads basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n
Each of the NBA\u2019s 30 teams nominated one player for the sportsmanship award, and that list was narrowed to six finalists \u2014 one from each division.<\/p>\n
The sportsmanship award is the fourth award to be announced by the NBA since the end of the regular season. The others:<\/p>\n
\u2014 San Antonio\u2019s Victor Wembanyama \u2014 just 22 years old \u2014 became the youngest Defensive Player of the Year, and the first to win the award in a unanimous vote.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Gilgeous-Alexander nearly became the first unanimous winner of the Clutch Player of the Year award. He got 96 of a possible 100 first-place votes.<\/p>\n
\u2014 San Antonio\u2019s Keldon Johnson topped Miami\u2019s Jaime Jaquez Jr. for Sixth Man of the Year, getting 63 first-place votes.<\/p>\n
The league\u2019s Most Improved Player \u2014 either Atlanta\u2019s Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Portland\u2019s Deni Avdija or Detroit\u2019s Jalen Duren \u2014 will be announced Friday.<\/p>\n
Other announcements that have yet to be scheduled include MVP (either Gilgeous-Alexander, Wembanyama or Denver\u2019s Nikola Jokic), Coach of the Year (either Detroit\u2019s J.B. Bickerstaff, San Antonio\u2019s Mitch Johnson or Boston\u2019s Joe Mazzulla), and Rookie of the Year (either Philadelphia\u2019s VJ Edgecombe, Dallas\u2019 Cooper Flagg or Charlotte\u2019s Kon Knueppel).<\/p>\n
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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n
Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derrick White of the Boston Celtics is the NBA\u2019s Sportsmanship Award winner for this season, as selected by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-623746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623746","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=623746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}