{"id":493983,"date":"2026-04-23T07:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493983"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:57:56","slug":"keldon-johnson-wins-sixth-man-of-the-year-becoming-the-second-spur-ever-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/keldon-johnson-wins-sixth-man-of-the-year-becoming-the-second-spur-ever-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Keldon Johnson wins Sixth Man of the Year, becoming the second Spur ever to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2620\" data-end=\"2916\"><strong data-start=\"2620\" data-end=\"2638\">Keldon Johnson<\/strong> has won the <strong data-start=\"2651\" data-end=\"2686\">NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award<\/strong> for the 2025-26 season. The announcement came on Wednesday and gives the <strong data-start=\"2760\" data-end=\"2769\">Spurs<\/strong> another major individual honor just days after <strong data-start=\"2817\" data-end=\"2838\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> was named Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2918\" data-end=\"3258\">According to <strong data-start=\"2931\" data-end=\"2942\">NBA.com<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2947\" data-end=\"2955\">ESPN<\/strong>, Johnson became just the <strong data-start=\"2981\" data-end=\"3019\">second player in franchise history<\/strong> to win the award after <strong data-start=\"3043\" data-end=\"3060\">Manu Ginobili<\/strong>. His production off the bench was historic, with <strong data-start=\"3110\" data-end=\"3132\">1,081 bench points<\/strong>, the most ever by a Spur in a single season and the second-highest total in the league.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3260\" data-end=\"3597\">Johnson received <strong data-start=\"3277\" data-end=\"3301\">63 first-place votes<\/strong>, finishing ahead of <strong data-start=\"3322\" data-end=\"3342\">Jaime Jaquez Jr.<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3347\" data-end=\"3367\">Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/strong> Reuters reported that he averaged <strong data-start=\"3402\" data-end=\"3434\">13.2 points and 5.4 rebounds<\/strong>, while shooting <strong data-start=\"3451\" data-end=\"3475\">51.9% from the field<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3480\" data-end=\"3512\">36.3% from three-point range<\/strong>, appearing in all <strong data-start=\"3531\" data-end=\"3558\">82 regular-season games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3599\" data-end=\"3957\">His season meant more than just numbers. Johnson embraced the role change made two years ago and turned himself into one of the emotional engines of the team, bringing energy, leadership and scoring punch every night. For the <strong data-start=\"3825\" data-end=\"3834\">Spurs<\/strong>, this award confirms the value of a player who fully bought into winning basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Spurs forward captured the 2025-26 NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award after a standout season off the bench<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/HGirEuvW8AIf8Yj.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493983"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493983"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493983"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}