The San Antonio Spurs are gathering the {hardware} after their robust 2025-26 common season. On Wednesday, Keldon Johnson was named the Sixth Man of the Yr.
This was Johnson’s second full season coming off the bench. He performed all 82 video games, averaging 23.3 minutes, 13.2 factors, and 5.4 rebounds whereas taking pictures 51.9% from the sphere and 36.3% from three. He beat out Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Tim Hardaway Jr. to win his first-ever Sixth Man of the Yr award.
Johnson was the first-ever Spur to attain a minimum of 1,000 factors off the bench in a single season. He scored 1,081 factors off the bench this 12 months, the second most within the NBA. He’s the primary Spur to win the award since Manu Ginobili did so within the 2007-08 season. He’s the second Spur to win the award.
Johnson grew to become the center and soul of the staff off the bench. He wrote a superb piece within the Gamers’ Tribune about coming off the bench earlier than the top of the season. He accepted the position with grace and has now been rewarded for it.
The now-Sixth Man of the Yr shall be wanted greater than ever because the Spurs are prone to be with out Victor Wembanyama in Recreation Three in opposition to the Portland Path Blazers, with the sequence tied 1-1.
