Spurs' Keldon Johnson wins NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award

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Keldon Johnson of the San Antonio Spurs has been honored as the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year.

Johnson played in all 82 games, all off the bench, becoming only the second NBA player in the last decade to do that.

He also became the first Spurs player to score 1,000 points as a reserve in a season.

Johnson got 64 first-place votes from a media panel, topping Miami's Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Denver's Tim Hardaway Jr. It’s the first individual NBA award for Johnson, who was part of the U.S. Olympic team that won gold at the Tokyo Games in 2021.

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Keldon Johnson Wins Sixth Man