Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry won the NBA’s Clutch Player of the Year Award for the 2023/24 season, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania (X link). The Clutch Player of the Year is defined as the player who “best comes through for his teammates in the clutch” during the regular season.
Curry beat out Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan for the honor. In his age-35 season, Curry averaged 26.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists in 74 games while shooting 45.0% from the field and 40.8% from beyond the arc on 11.8 attempts per game.
According to Warriors PR, Curry ranked first in points (189), field goals (59) and three-pointers (32) in the clutch this season. Clutch time is defined by the league as the last five minutes of a game where the score is within five points. He shot 45.7% from three in clutch scenarios this year and the Warriors went 24-24 in clutch games this season.
NBA PR released the full list of vote-getters (X link). Curry finished with a tally of 298 points, with DeRozan coming in second with 272. Gilgeous-Alexander received 160 points. Denver’s Nikola Jokic, New York’s Jalen Brunson and Dallas’s Luka Doncic were among other vote-getters.
Curry helped lead the Warriors to the No. 10 seed and a play-in berth, where they were eliminated by the Kings.
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