Playoff season is also NBA award season… and the one award that a Celtic truly had a great chance of winning went to Lou Williams in Toronto. This is from the NBA’s press release:
The Toronto Raptors’ Lou Williams, who averaged a career-high 15.5 points this season and helped Toronto win a franchise-record 49 games, is the winner of the 2014-15 Kia NBA Sixth Man Award as the league’s best player in a reserve role, the NBA announced today. The 6-1 guard becomes the first Raptors player to earn the honor.
Williams, in his 10th NBA season and first with the Raptors, amassed 78 first-place votes and 502 total points from a panel of 130 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Isaiah Thomas of the Boston Celtics finished second with 324 points (33 first-place votes), and two-time winner Jamal Crawford of the Los Angeles Clippers was third with 131 points (eight first-place votes).
Williams is definitely deserving, so it’s not like Thomas was screwed out of the award. But I definitely thought he deserved it.
For the record:
Bill Simmons voted for Williams and had Isaiah Thomas second.
Celtics radio color analyst Cedric Maxwell’s ballot: 1: Jamal Crawford 2: Lou Williams 3: Aaron Brooks
Tommy Heinsohn, of course, voted for Isaiah Thomas
