Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday received the NBA’s 2022-23 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award for the third time in 4 seasons on Thursday.
More than 400 gamers solid votes for a bunch of 12 finalists who have been chosen by a panel of league executives.
Holiday obtained 57 first-place votes and 1,359 complete factors to complete forward of Brooklyn Nets ahead Mikal Bridges (39 first-place votes and 1,190 factors) and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (42 and 1,117).
Holiday, 32, received the award with the Bucks final season and likewise in 2019-20 whereas taking part in for the New Orleans Pelicans. He is the one a number of winner of the award, offered since 2012-13.
He averaged 19.3 factors, 7.4 assists and 5.1 rebounds in 67 video games (65 begins) and helped Milwaukee (58-24) earn the No. 1 seed within the Eastern Conference. Holiday earned his second All-Star Game choice and made his fifth look on the All-Defensive workforce.
The award is known as for Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes, teammates with the Rochester/Cincinnati Royals from 1955-58. Stokes was injured on the final day of the 1957-58 season, went right into a coma days later and was in the end paralyzed.
Twyman grew to become his authorized guardian and advocate and supported Stokes till his loss of life in 1970. Both males are enshrined within the Basketball Hall of Fame.
