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Clippers’ Jamal Crawford Wins 3rd Sixth Man Award
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All posts by Basketball InsidersUpdated15 Oct 2021
The Los Angeles Clippers’ Jamal Crawford is the winner of the 2015-16 Kia NBA Sixth Man Award for his contributions in a reserve role, the NBA announced today. He becomes the first player to earn the honor three times. The 36-year-old Crawford also breaks his own record, set two years ago, as the oldest winner.
Crawford amassed 51 first-place votes and 341 total points from a panel of 130 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. The Golden State Warriors’ Andre Iguodala finished second with 288 points (33 first-place votes), and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Enes Kanter was third with 182 points (19 first-place votes).
Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote. To be eligible for the award, players had to have come off the bench in more games than they started.
Crawford came off the bench in 74 of his 79 appearances and averaged 14.2 points and 2.3 assists in 26.9 minutes in all games, helping the Clippers (53-29) post their fourth straight 50-win season. He recorded 33 games with 15 or more points off the bench, third most in the NBA behind the Denver Nuggets’ Will Barton (38) and the New Orleans Pelicans’ Ryan Anderson (36). As a starter, Crawford scored at least 30 points in four of five games. Crawford also ranked second in the NBA in free throw percentage (90.4).
A 16-year veteran, Crawford previously won the Kia NBA Sixth Man Award in 2009-2010 with the Atlanta Hawks and in 2013-14 with the Clippers. When Crawford was honored for the first time as a Clipper, he joined Kevin McHale, Ricky Pierce and Detlef Schrempf as the only two-time winners. Crawford is the only player to win the award with multiple teams.
2015-16 KIA NBA SIXTH MAN AWARD VOTING
| Player | 1st Place (5 Pts) | 2nd Place (3 Pts) | 3rd Place (1 Pt) | Total Points |
| Jamal Crawford | 51 | 23 | 17 | 341 |
| Andre Iguodala | 33 | 35 | 18 | 288 |
| Enes Kanter | 19 | 20 | 27 | 182 |
| Will Barton | 15 | 21 | 20 | 158 |
| Evan Turner | 3 | 7 | 10 | 46 |
| Ryan Anderson | 4 | 6 | 5 | 43 |
| Jeremy Lin | 1 | 6 | 7 | 30 |
| Ed Davis | 1 | 5 | 1 | 21 |
| Dennis Schröder | 1 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| Tristan Thompson | 2 | – | 6 | 16 |
| Shaun Livingston | – | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| J.J. Barea | – | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Boris Diaw | – | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Zach LaVine | – | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Darren Collison | – | 1 | – | 3 |
| Allen Crabbe | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Jrue Holiday | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Patrick Patterson | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Mirza Teletovic | – | – | 1 | 1 |
The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP
