SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili has won the NBA’s sixth man award given to the league’s best reserve.
Ginobili led the Spurs in scoring, averaging a career-high 19.5 points. He also averages 4.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. Ginobili came off the bench in 51 of the 74 games he played this season.
The Spurs have a 1-0 lead over the Phoenix Suns in their best-of-seven first-round NBA playoff series. Suns guard Leandro Barbosa won the award last year.
Ginobli got 123 of 124 first-place votes. Barbosa came in second with 283 points and the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Terry, a graduate of Franklin High School in Seattle, was third with 44.
Voting for the 2007-08 NBA Sixth Man award as selected by a nationwide panel of 124 sportswriters, with total points and first-place votes in parentheses:
Manu Ginobili, San Antonio (123) 615
Leandro Barbosa, Phoenix (1) 283
Jason Terry, Dallas 44
Kyle Korver, Utah 34
Ben Gordon, Chicago 27
J.R. Smith, Denver 22
Josh Childress, Atlanta 23
James Posey, Boston 19
Jason Maxiell, Detroit 11
Travis Outlaw, Portland 11
Linas Kleiza, Denver 5
Jordan Farmar, L.A. Lakers 5
Jerry Stackhouse, Dallas 4
Rashad McCants, Minnesota 3
Louis Williams, Philadelphia 3
Jarrett Jack, Portland 3
David Lee, New York 3
Andres Nocioni, Chicago 1
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