Sacramento guard De’Aaron Fox wins NBA’s new clutch player of the year award
It was a tie game in Orlando on Nov. 5. De’Aaron Fox got the ball with about five seconds left, took four dribbles and let a shot fly from just inside of midcourt as time expired.A clutch moment – one of many for the Sacramento guard this season. Fox was announced Tuesday night as the inaugural winner of the NBA’s clutch player of the year award, as selected by a panel of 100 writers and broadcasters who cover the league.
Fox became Sacramento’s first individual winner of a major award since Tyreke Evans held off Stephen Curry for rookie of the year in 2010. The Kings almost certainly won’t be waiting 13 years for their next one – it’ll be more like 24 hours, probably, with Mike Brown expected to be announced as the coach of the year when the NBA reveals those results on Wednesday.
The voting was a runaway; Fox, who led the league with 194 clutch points, got 91 of the possible 100 first-place votes. Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan and Miami’s Jimmy Butler were the other finalists. DeRozan was second in the NBA with 159 clutch points this season, and Butler was third with 151. Fox led the league in clutch-game scoring this season with 194 points in 39 such games; clutch games are defined as those where the margin between teams is five points or less at any point in the final 5:00. He actually shot better from the field in those moments will be announced Wednesday and Sixth Man of the Year will be revealed Thursday.
The rest of the schedule for announcing other league awards, including MVP, most improved player and rookie of the year, has not yet been disclosed.
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