Lou William Sixth Man of the Year

So every year after the season, there is this award like Most Defensive Player of the Year, Most Improved Player, Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year, and the Sixth Man of the Year. The only awards that been announced is the Coach of the Year and 6th Man of the Year. The Coach of the Year is Hawks Head Coach Mike Budenholzer after a tremendous season his Hawks team had. Record of 60-22, which made them the number one seed in the Eastern Conference. They also held the first two games at home in the playoffs. But, we are not talking about the Hawks. The talk of the NBA right now is Lou Williams. Lou was announced as KIA's Sixth Man of the Year. Which means, he comes off the bench, he is not a starter. He comes off the bench and puts up some great numbers for his team. Lou Williams plays for the Toronto Raptors who is currently playing the Washington Wizards. Lou came off the bench and put up some great numbers. Lou averaged a career high 15.5 points this season. This is Lou's 10th season and first with the Raptors. It was quite the surprise knowing that Lou received the Sixth Man of the Year award. Former Sixth Man, Jamal Crawford, is know for being the Sixth Man of every year. Jamal was in the race, but Lou received the most votes of 78 first- place votes and 502 total points from the panel. ------- Players are awarded five points for each first- place votes, three points for each second-place votes and one point for each third-place votes. To be eligible for the award, players have to come off the bench in more games than they started. Lou came of the bench in all 80 of his appearances and averaged 25.2 minutes. He led or tied for the team in scoring 18 times, second most in the league for a reverse, and the Raptors went 14-4 in those games. The 28 year old also lead the Raptors in free throw percentage 86.1 and made a career high 152 three pointers. On March 4, Lou set a Toronto record for points in a quarter with 21 in the fourth quarter period against the Cleveland Cavaliers.