Jay Skeets

Jaime Jaquez Jr.

of the Heat got 34 first place votes.

So he finished second overall.

Tim Hardaway Jr., distant third.

And then Nas Reed, the 2024 winner of this award, B-Stew, and Mitchell Robinson all got one first place vote.

So again, this one was a little bit more open, but Keldon Johnson got it done in the end.

Congrats to him, and he was very emotional with this victory.

Any thoughts, TK?

Yeah, I think this is pretty cool for Kelton Johnson.

He's the longest tenured spur.

He was like a 20-point-per-game scorer.

Take all the shots you want, and then the team got better, and he had to figure out, how do I fit into this team?

So he bought into a role, said, I'm going to come off the bench.

I think he became a different player.

He basically became Josh Hart.

All you do is rebound and shoot threes now, and he's the emotional leader, and he's been rewarded for it.

So pretty cool story for this dude.

It was cool to hear that when they told him he was getting the award, all the Spurs players and personnel or whatever were all wearing cowboy hats.

And Bumping Party in the USA was one of the songs on the playlist, which we've heard him play before in pregame warm-ups and stuff like that.

So yeah, this one did feel like it had a little bit of a narrative to it.