Nuggets guard J.R. Smith finished second in the voting for the NBA’s Sixth Man Award, which was announced today. Dallas guard Jason Terry won the award. Denver’s Chris Andersen finished eighth in the voting.
Terry got 111 of 121 first-place votes in the balloting and was the clear winner with 576 points. Smith was second with 155 points and three first-place votes, and New York’s Nate Robinson was third with 113 points.
Smith started 18 of his 81 games, and averaged 15.2 points, 2.8 assists and 3.7 rebounds in 27.7 minutes. He was 180-of-453 from 3-point range.
Terry, mostly a full-time starter before taking on a different role the past two seasons, he started only 11 of his 74 games in the regular season. Terry averaged 19.6 points and 3.4 assists while playing about 34 minutes a game.
