April 21st, 2008
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San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili won the NBA’s Sixth Man Award, given to the best player in a reserve role, on Monday.
The 30-year-old Argentine received 615 out of a possible 620 points, including 123 of 124 first-place votes, from a panel of journalists. A sixth man in 51 out of 74 games played this season, Ginobili led the Spurs in scoring with a career-high average of 19.5 points. The six-year NBA veteran also averaged 4.8 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.47 steals. This one kind of a one sided race for Ginobili.
Everyone and there brother knew he was going to win this award and it was well deserved. As we all saw in the first game of the playoffs when he hit the gaming winning shot with 1.8 seconds left to give the Spurs a 1-0 lead in the series. O and a little side note, I think I said in my previous blog that, that would be the best series and after the first game I think I was right…No big deal!