National Basketball Association Awards
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The National Basketball Association's Sixth Man of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1982–83 NBA season to the league's most valuable player for his team coming off the bench as a substitute. A panel of sportswriters and broadcasters from throughout the United States and Canada votes on the recipient. Each judge casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award. To be eligible for the award, a player must come off the bench in more games than he starts.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 26 different players. Kevin McHale, Ricky Pierce, Detlef Schrempf and Jamal Crawford have each won the award two times. The Phoenix Suns have had four winners while the Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks and New York Knicks have had three. McHale and Bill Walton are the only Hall of Famers who have won the award; Walton is also the only award winner to have earned NBA MVP honors.
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Check all the winners of NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award presented under National Basketball Association Awards since 1983 .
