Player, Team	1st Place (5 pts)	2nd Place (3 pts)	3rd Place (1 pt)	Total Points
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City	96	1	1	484
Jamal Murray, Denver	0	33	18	117
Anthony Edwards, Minnesota	0	32	20	116
Cade Cunningham, Detroit	1	11	12	50
Jalen Brunson, New York	2	8	8	42
Nikola Jokić, Denver	1	6	14	37
Tyrese Maxey, Philadelphia	0	3	15	24
Luka Dončić, LA Lakers	0	4	7	19
Kevin Durant, Houston	0	1	5	8
Kawhi Leonard, LA Clippers	0	1	0	3

JaderMcDanersStan | Timberwolves

200 | 7 hours ago

Sad Ant didn’t get it but makes sense, Shai had an insane clutch season

Vegetable_Kale_1331 | SGA

124 | 7 hours ago

The fact that Cade, Brunson and Jokic all got 1st place votes and Ant didn’t is crazy.

JaderMcDanersStan | Timberwolves

43 | 7 hours ago

Oh wow I didn’t realize Ant didn’t even get first place votes. That’s actually wild, he had an amazing clutch season and was the most efficient in clutch. Thought it was an SGA vs Ant race

Victor_Wembanyama1 | Spurs

7 | 6 hours ago

Voters simply forgot he existed because of the injury.

homefree122 | Thunder

30 | 7 hours ago

NBA media at its finest.

FeanorEvades | Timberwolves

4 | 5 hours ago

It’s bullshit that if it happened in the first half of the season, it doesn’t exist.

It’s sort of my issue with the Wemby MVP advocates. The body of work that matters most in awards is the March to the middle of April.

TheBigBomma | Thunder

23 | 6 hours ago

Jokic getting a first place vote is just straight homerism given Denver’s struggles

lukewwilson | Lakers

5 | 5 hours ago

That was my first thought, they had a stretch there right after the all star break where they couldn’t keep a lead it felt like

TheBigBomma | Thunder

4 | 4 hours ago

A 39 game stretch. They went 19-20

Luciolover345 | Thunder

1 | 2 hours ago

His clutch record was like 15-17? Jamal’s was 20-18?

Shai? 20-⁷⁄₈?

schoolhater12 | Raptors

5 | 6 hours ago

Ant is deserved top 3, but no one besides SGA should have gotten a first place vote. It should have been unanimous like the DPOY trophy

XiaoRCT | Thunder

7 | 6 hours ago

If i’m reading this correctly 2 dudes didn’t vote for SGA in their top 3 lol

MantusTMD | Timberwolves

2 | 6 hours ago

NBA try to make yourself seem like a serious organization: impossible

here_for_the_lols | Thunder

2 | 4 hours ago

One Dude just votes jokic for everything

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1 | 7 hours ago

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BobLobLawsLawFirm | Timberwolves

1 | 6 hours ago

Clutch POY doesn’t use the game requirement

CrippledBanana | Canada

11 | 7 hours ago

Honestly the votes for this are insane to me. This should have been a two way race between shai and ANT only.

TheZacef | Timberwolves

3 | 5 hours ago

I think if he kept up his run in the first half of the season it would’ve been a lot closer. At one point he was shooting something crazy like 70% in the clutch.

EpicGamesStoreSucks | Thunder

1 | 2 hours ago

Ant was great this year, and in most years good enough to win it. SGA had an unreal season in clutch time this year. So much talent in the NBA right now I doubt we see a ton of repeat award winners over the next 10 years. Except Wemby for DPOY will be consistent

Resident_Chip_5598 | NBA

153 | 7 hours ago

16 go-ahead field goals in clutch time

and this doesn’t even include game-tying shots he made, right? crazy numbers

KnyghtFish

137 | 7 hours ago

Absolutely deserved. Dude went on a tear in the clutch. At one point he didn’t miss a single clutch time shot for like a whole month.

Guy has more buzzer beaters than most people realize as well.

Ok-Street-2473

67 | 7 hours ago

He still hasn’t missed a 4th quarter shot since March 17, and he’s ³⁸⁄₄₄ in his last 44 clutch FGs (or 4th quarter FGs, cant remember which)

LosAngeLukaGOATCIC | Cote D'Ivoire

23 | 6 hours ago

WTF ! It’s insane.

Low-Measurement-2468

15 | 6 hours ago

wtf. devs need to patch this shit

GivesCredit | Warriors

5 | 4 hours ago

4th quarter shot or clutch shot? I find it impossible to believe he hasn’t missed a single shot in the 4th quarter in a whole month unless he skipped a bunch of quarters

Ok-Street-2473

11 | 4 hours ago

4th quarter. And yea, it honestly says more about how many 4Qs he gets to skip than his efficiency. Still ¹¹⁄₁₁ FG since March 17 tho

GivesCredit | Warriors

3 | 4 hours ago

Still incredible. He’s a magician

Vimmortality | TOR

3 | 4 hours ago

Wtf this sounds outrageous.

whatssenguntoagoblin | Alperen Sengun

19 | 7 hours ago

Crazy he sat the most games in the 4th and won clutch player of the year. Dude is so good.

DeadDay | OKC

14 | 7 hours ago

All season it felt like Shai could crank it up at a moments notice, then did it time and time again.

Amazing season to watch.

snxkovnm | Raptors

74 | 7 hours ago

Now all of a sudden it shouldn’t be a reward. Basketball fans hate basketball.

sometimenotsmellgood

24 | 7 hours ago

I always find it so weird when fans see one comment they dont like and then generalize an entire fanbase over it lmao.

Razatiger

21 | 7 hours ago

Its more than just 1 comment, theres entire subreddits on this site dedicated to hating SGA.

A_Lax_Nerd | OKC

14 | 6 hours ago

All you have to do is come on r/nba post game and see the most upvoted “highlight” is a reel of foul calls for Shai or a Dort foul to confirm this

sometimenotsmellgood

-3 | 6 hours ago

I dont doubt that. His ckmment was about the award, though…

KingSwagamemnon | MEM

0 | 5 hours ago

My least favorite is “but I was told…”

sometimenotsmellgood

0 | 5 hours ago

I rolled the f outta my eyes when you wrote that

logster2001 | Rockets

3 | 6 hours ago

People have complained about the award since it was announced

LeopardRoyal2450

1 | 6 hours ago

*Idiots have complained yes.

GivesCredit | Warriors

1 | 4 hours ago

Nah trust me, people say it every year. Steph got clowned for winning it too lol

CrippledBanana | Canada

71 | 7 hours ago

Wait what are these first place votes. This award should have been between Shai and ANT only. Like it isn’t even close for other players. They both were about 1.4 points per minute in the clutch with >50% fg with ANT actually getting to 56.5%. They were insane in the clutch.

How did Cade, Brunson and Jokic get votes for first but ANT didn’t? How did Murray get more 2nd place votes than ANT?

SufficientBit3153 | Thunder

35 | 7 hours ago

Voters being biased, tale as old as time. Keep in mind Kendrick Perkins has a vote, that’s what we’re dealing with lol

rabidbot | Thunder

5 | 6 hours ago

You know deep down not even Perk thinks he should have a vote.

Hookmsnbeiishh | Thunder

1 | 18 minutes ago

Which makes Wemby’s unanimous DPOY that much more impressive. Not even attention seeking clowns were going to risk putting him second behind their guy.

918tb | Thunder

53 | 7 hours ago

Well deserved, he has been automatic in the clutch and a lot of game winners.

TheAgmis | Thunder

40 | 7 hours ago

The SGA hate is TEMU LeBron hate. It’s so internet driven that it’s not real. That’s why this place is called the basement

smashacc | Lakers

35 | 7 hours ago

The tiktokification of basketball consumption is ruining discourse. He’ll grift one call every 10 games and it’ll get hundreds of thousands of likes on Twitter/Tiktok and hit the top of r/NBATalk, r/NBAMemes, and r/nbacirclejerk for days

Unfortunately just about every basketball fan I know IRL won’t stop bitching about free throws or stolen MVPs when Shai’s name comes up

homefree122 | Thunder

2 | 5 hours ago

You forgot r/NBA. It’s not immune to the irrational hate. Quite far from it.

LeopardRoyal2450

2 | 6 hours ago

This shit is like nothing. Kobe had way more boos and criticisms back then. It’s nothing until we heard FUCK SGA chants in a random regular season game.

KiwiCantReddit | Thunder

2 | 6 hours ago

Tbh, if SGA has any sexual assault case brought against him, I expect there to be A LOT of abuse hurled his way.

LeopardRoyal2450

2 | 6 hours ago

Past mericans don’t really hate because of that.

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

-64 | 7 hours ago

No it’s not. Sga is a bane on the game

PeeledGrapePie

28 | 7 hours ago

lol

tmanx8 | Thunder

24 | 7 hours ago

You see how silly you sound? “A bane on the game”? Like come on there is NO way this isn’t internet driven bs lol

TheAgmis | Thunder

15 | 7 hours ago

Because you’re afraid he’s gonna catch curry. I get it. You’re scared. I’d be too if I was a Warriors fan.

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

-29 | 7 hours ago

He can win 5 more rings and mvps and he’ll never be on curry’s level.

Sorry.

Ethical hoop will always triumphant over unethical hoop.

Curry changed the game for generations. Sga will never reach that level

Zeeron1 | Thunder

17 | 7 hours ago

You seem like you really need this to be true

TheAgmis | Thunder

15 | 7 hours ago

Curry couldn’t beat LeBron without his teammates getting hurt, couldn’t beat him without recruiting KD.

Ethical hoops is bullshit terminally online basketball losers make up to cope with the fact they can’t handle players now can be historically better of players from yesterday. Absolute coping mechanism.

Sorry! Hope that helps! SGA doesn’t need Kevin Durant to win rings :)

MQZ01 | Warriors

1 | 6 hours ago

I love SGA and think he’s on all-time great trajectory, but I feel compelled to point out that you’re now also participating in the online haterade shit that Shai so often receives

I think you can put an asterisk next to 90% of championships if you try hard enough to be a hater (Haliburton’s achilles…) but I also find it silly to do so - multiple great players can exist at the same time

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

-1 | 6 hours ago

Suddenly thunder fans forgot 22 existed LOL

TheAgmis | Thunder

7 | 6 hours ago

Lmao. Enjoy the warriors futility next decade. Dust off that old Kobe jersey

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

-2 | 6 hours ago

I mean I completely disproved your argument with 22. Try again with your childish dumb insults.

Also, Kobe was a legend. Many nba fans owned his jersey regardless of being a lakers fan. I don’t have one but I do have one of Reggie miller, Jordan, and tmac.

Sit down kid, you don’t know shit bout ball

TheAgmis | Thunder

3 | 6 hours ago

You’re been a warrior fan since 2015 champ

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

0 | 6 hours ago

lol sure bud. Whatever helps you sleep.

Your team didn’t even exist till 2008 so I wouldn’t talk. You prob can’t even complete the simplest of nba trivial pre-2024 😂😂😂

iamhollywood | Thunder

4 | 6 hours ago

Your age is showing. Why don’t you grab a feastable and turn on Minecraft, buddy.

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

-2 | 6 hours ago

Spoken from a thunders fan is hilarious. Been a fan of dub nation before you were born kiddo

Inoimispel | Thunder

4 | 6 hours ago

I bet my reddit account is older than you.

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

1 | 6 hours ago

Cool story

mangabalanga | Thunder

9 | 7 hours ago

Now I’m picturing SGA breaking Wemby over his knee and taunting him in the most ridiculous accent

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

-16 | 7 hours ago

Don’t worry he has dirty dort

lethalizered | Thunder

9 | 7 hours ago

Bane was definitely doing the right thing in the Nolan trilogy, so I’ll give this one a pass.

Godspeed You! Purdy Emperor.

Wise-Jellyfish3640

39 | 7 hours ago

Damn he sat out hella 4th quarters and still won the award

homefree122 | Thunder

3 | 5 hours ago

He sat out a total of 42 fourth quarters this season, mostly due to our margin of victory in those games.

okiewxchaser | Thunder

33 | 7 hours ago

Bill Simmons with the salty third place vote

dvegar78 | Nuggets

22 | 7 hours ago

Congrats to SGA

Edit: thought it was MVP..anyway..well deserved

NoGodOrKingsOnlyMan

15 | 7 hours ago

This award was wrapped up after Shai hit two game winners against Denver

S0ggylemonz | Celtics

17 | 7 hours ago

Well deserved. He was cold blooded at the end of games

Zeeron1 | Thunder

16 | 6 hours ago

Those non-Shai 1st place voters are actually trolling. Like, I could have understood some Ant votes, but Jokic? Really..? Thats blatant lmao

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

Thats probably Bill Simmons

ElGoddamnDorado | Spurs

13 | 6 hours ago

Very well deserved. Dude is the decision of consistent. MVP is next

Mindless_Menu9162 | Thunder

11 | 7 hours ago

So there are two redditors that get a vote?

GrumbleAlong

10 | 7 hours ago

Not even close, lol. SGA in 27 clutch games and won 20 of them.

Responsible-Bass4020 | Thunder

10 | 7 hours ago

crazy the other finalists didn’t even get a first place vote

heat_fan_ | Raptors

8 | 6 hours ago

Sga was clutch as hell this season not surprised

XiaoRCT | Thunder

6 | 6 hours ago

So, wait, according to this 4 dudes didn’t have SGA at 1st and didn’t vote Ant, which is already really questionable, but 2 of the 4 didn’t vote SGA in their top 3? lmao wtf

Sympho1 | Cavaliers

5 | 6 hours ago

SGA is surely on the goat trajectory by the way he’s playing.

Best season for a guard since MJ too and might be the most efficient season of any player.. ever

Is r/NBA ready to accept this fact?

Solardrift47

4 | 7 hours ago

Insane when you consider how many 4th quarters he didn’t even play

Funny-Transition7869 | Pacers

4 | 7 hours ago

well earned

PSNaughtyInsomniac | Timberwolves

2 | 6 hours ago

Cade Cunningham got a 1st place vote over Ant? Lmfao

jjkm7 | Raptors

2 | 6 hours ago

The voting is mad weird. Jokic, cade and brunson got some first place votes while murray and Ant got none? And sga got 96 first place votes but was entirely off 2 people’s ballots

guzzler_bennett_jr

1 | 6 hours ago

how many KNCPOTYs does Jordan have? Lebron? This puts Shai firmly in the conversation.

Raptorpicklezz | Raptors

-1 | 7 hours ago

Great, so maybe Jokic will get MVP then? /s

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-4 | 7 hours ago

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mangabalanga | Thunder

2 | 7 hours ago

No he doesn’t

HitboxOfASnail | Thunder

3 | 7 hours ago

he’s going to go from 0 to >96 first place votes by playing 4 more games?

DrEarlGreyIII

-4 | 7 hours ago

i think we need to start scaling back the number of awards. award season is getting quite watered down. might as will just give participation trophies at this point.

RichAbbreviations966 | Celtics

-8 | 7 hours ago

JB not even getting votes is despicable

SorbetSea8711

-14 | 7 hours ago

How tf wasn’t it Embiid?

Iron_Maniac | Thunder

17 | 7 hours ago

That’d be the Crutch award not the Clutch

Surveyor85 | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

I’m not going to explain it to you…you’re going to have to look it up in the appendix.

user_15427

-16 | 7 hours ago

This award is silly

flyingabroom

-20 | 7 hours ago

Pretty much confirmed he wont be mvp then? They wouldn’t give him two prizes, would be a bit silly for a foul baiter.

darnclem | OKC

15 | 7 hours ago

You should definitely go put money on that.

RonThePadawan

-26 | 7 hours ago

Should have been Ant

pagny77 | Timberwolves

14 | 7 hours ago

Ants clutch highlights are definitely flasher than SGAs, like that 3 against spurs on boxing day, but overall SGA is the more consistent clutch player

bbecks | Thunder

2 | 4 hours ago

I mean SGA’s two 3s against Denver were pretty damn flashy. JWill screwed up what should’ve been the game winner so he just went and did it again.

SGA_is_Lukas_Father | Thunder

7 | 7 hours ago

Ant led in clutch pts?

Sauce4243 | Thunder

3 | 6 hours ago

Nope

Ant is an interesting comparison SGA 175 in 125.1 1.4ppm Ant 135 in 93.8 1.44ppm

But their records SGA 20-7 60 win pace Ant 15-9 51win pace

ThisWhomps999 | Jazz

-29 | 7 hours ago

I still don’t understand how this is an award.

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

18 | 7 hours ago

Anything to hate bruh

trmp_stmp | Bucks

12 | 7 hours ago

what is there to understand?

Illustrious-Dish7248

10 | 7 hours ago

You know how you’re watching a game, or talking about past players of a specific sport, really could be almost any sport with a clock or points involved, and it’s coming down to the end of the match, and some dude performs really well, and you make a comment to your friend “that guy is so clutch”.

It’s giving an award to the player that most exemplifies that over the course of 1 season.

ThisWhomps999 | Jazz

-12 | 7 hours ago

What about the “fast out the blocks award” given to the person who is most effective in the first 6 minutes of the game. Then what about an award for every other 6 minute segment throughout a game?

gnawlej | Thunder

8 | 6 hours ago

You really don’t understand why a 5 point game in the last five minutes is a more compelling scenario than a 5 point game in the first five minutes?

ThisWhomps999 | Jazz

1 | an hour ago

Is two points at the end of the game worth more than two points at the beginning?

gnawlej | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

No. So then why do you think people cheer harder when a team goes up by two with 10 seconds left than when they go up 2-0 to start the game even though they scored the same number of points?

ThisWhomps999 | Jazz

1 | an hour ago

Say you run the same play at the beginning and at the end of the game and you score 47% of the time in both scenarios. Is that clutch?

logster2001 | Rockets

3 | 6 hours ago

Yeah what about the screen setter award why isn’t that a thing

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0 | 7 hours ago

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ThisWhomps999 | Jazz

-4 | 7 hours ago

Honestly, I would much rather have a least clutch award, then fine the coach of said player for having them have the ball so much late in games.

sensitive_pepperoni

-49 | 7 hours ago

Wtf is this award? Lmao. NBA is turning into a participation trophy league.

GaTech379 | Rockets

21 | 7 hours ago

participation award for the guy whose about to have back-to-back MVPs lol

sensitive_pepperoni

-11 | 7 hours ago

Im not insulting the player, im insulting the trophy itself. Clutch player award lol…just so dumb.

NTPWINBOX2 | Raptors

6 | 7 hours ago

how is it dumb?

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

14 | 7 hours ago

Say it with me

You don’t know ball

beenhadballs | Bucks

3 | 7 hours ago

They didnt comment on the merit of the winner, but on the actual award existing.

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

4 | 7 hours ago

But saying that it’s a participation trophy is silly. Clutch points win games. Think of it as an award like DPOY, it’s an important aspect of a player’s game that should be rewarded.

sensitive_pepperoni

-7 | 7 hours ago

Im not insulting the player, just the award. Doesn’t matter who won it. Clutch player award, just looked it up it started 3 years ago…what a dork ass name for an award lol.

SeveralDeer3833 | Celtics

-54 | 7 hours ago

Upon receiving the trophy he fell over and was awarded freethrows. Tech on Tatum.

SGA_is_Lukas_Father | Thunder

27 | 7 hours ago

JB 14fta vs thunder last game ok buddy

Embarrassed_Hold_901 | Thunder

24 | 7 hours ago

When’s your comedy show?

LittlestWeapon | Lakers

-64 | 7 hours ago

This is a god damned joke. He missed a fuck ton of fourth quarters. Clutch how???

Comfortable_Cup5107 | Thunder

49 | 7 hours ago

Most clutch points in the league? Had like 4 game winners in a row like 2 months ago? Always clutch?

JaderMcDanersStan | Timberwolves

34 | 7 hours ago

Yeah he had an insane clutch season

Comfortable_Cup5107 | Thunder

24 | 7 hours ago

Ya like hate on the guy all you want but dude is pretty clutch

Ordinary-Spinach9012

29 | 7 hours ago

How? Just hit the game winning shot the ten times you are needed in the fourth.

BBallHunter | Thunder

23 | 7 hours ago

Have you seen all the numbers? Basically all the metrics say it’s gonna be him.

Jay_Cubx7 | Thunder

18 | 7 hours ago

read the post?

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

12 | 7 hours ago

Read the post big dog

GrumbleAlong

8 | 7 hours ago

It’s a secret only 96 of 100 voters know.

Shadoken-TYPE0 | Canada

10 | 7 hours ago

Total Clutch Points - 175 (1st)

Clutch PPG - 6.5 (1st)

Field Goals Made - 52 (1st)

Go-Ahead Field Goals - 16 (1st)

wcooper97 | OKC

10 | 7 hours ago

Those 6.5 clutch PPG are the highest since clutch stats have been tracked too.

20-7 record in clutch games.

[NBA PR] Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Clutch Player of the Year, earning the Jerry West Trophy.