Since the 2012-2013 season, the NBA has presented the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. The annual honor recognizes the best teammate based on dedicated play, leadership on and off the field, and a number of other criteria. Winning the award this season is Milwaukee’s Jrue Holiday. This is the second year in a row that he has won the award.
Holiday has won the NBA Colleague of the Year award in three of the last four seasons in the NBA. He received 57 first-place votes and 1,359 total points. Over 400 players from across the league cast their votes among the four finalists, with Holiday once again taking home the honor.
Michal Bridges of Brooklyn finished second, with 39 first-place votes and 1,190 total points. Steve Curry of the Golden State Warriors came in third. He received 42 first-place votes and 1,117 total points.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced today that Milwaukee Bucks guard Guru Holiday has won the 2022-23 Twiman Stokes Teammate of the Year Award.
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– NBA Communications (NBAPR) May 11, 2023
Junior Holiday is the 2022-23 NBA Twiman-Stokes Fellow of the Year
No player has received this honor more than once in their career besides Holiday. After the league announced today that he is the 2022-23 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year, Holiday is a three-time winner of the award. He won it in back-to-back seasons and in the 2019-20 season when he was still with the New Orleans Pelicans.
The prestigious award is named after Jack Twiman and Maurice Stokes. They were teammates with the Rochester/Cincinnati Royals from 1955 to 1958. Unfortunately, Stokes was injured on the last day of the 1957-58 season. He fell into a coma afterwards and was eventually paralyzed. Teammate Jack Twyman became his legal guardian and supporter and supported Stokes until his death in 1970.
In the 2022-23 regular season, Jrue Holiday averaged (19.3) points, (5.1) rebounds and (7.4) assists in said 67 games. He also earned his second career All-Star selection of the season along with his fifth All-Defensive selection. Holiday and Bucks bounced back in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs this season in five games at the Miami Heat.