Boston Celtics guard Derrick White is the NBA’s sportsmanship award winner for this season, as selected by his fellow players across the league.
White got 20% of the first-place votes from the 386 players who cast ballots. TJ McConnell of the Indiana Pacers — who actually got more first-place votes, almost 22% — was second, while Harrison Barnes of the San Antonio Spurs was third and Al Horford of the Golden State Warriors was fourth.
Barnes and Horford each got 19% of the first-place votes that were cast.
Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat (11% of first-place votes) was fifth and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder — the only repeat finalist from last season — was sixth after getting just less than 10% of the first-place votes.
White, 31, will receive the Joe Dumars Trophy, named for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer who was a two-time champion with the Detroit Pistons and was the inaugural winner of the sportsmanship award in the 1995-96 season. Dumars now leads basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans.