Boston Celtics sharpshooting guard Payton Pritchard was named the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year on Tuesday.
Pritchard received 454 total points in balloting, including 82 out of 100 first-place votes from a global media panel.
The Detroit Pistons’ Malik Beasley was second at 279 points and 13 first-place votes. The third finalist, Ty Jerome of the Cleveland Cavaliers, had 91 points and two first-place nods.
Pritchard, in his fifth NBA season all spent with the Celtics, averaged career highs of 14.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 80 games, coming off the bench in all but three. He was the defending NBA champions’ fifth-leading scorer in the regular season.
His 1,079 total points off the bench were the most of any reserve in the NBA this season.
Pritchard shot 40.7 percent on 3-pointers, making a career-high 255 of them (3.2 per game). He made 246 of those as a reserve, the most in NBA history.
–Field Level Media
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