6. Lou Williams, Los Angeles Clippers
This might be too low for the reigning Sixth Man of the Year, but Lou Williams has won this award an NBA-record three times. Wouldn’t doubling up on the next-closest winners in this category with four 6MOY trophies just be overkill at this point?
Voter fatigue will eventually set in here, and the attention will shift at another high-scoring guard. In Lou Will’s defense though, he just enjoyed the best season of his career with the Los Angeles Clippers, averaging a whopping 22.6 points and 5.3 assists per game despite only starting in 19 of his 79 games.
Williams wasn’t the most efficient scorer (.435/.359/.880 shooting splits), but there were many who believed he deserved All-Star consideration in the loaded Western Conference. The Clippers’ backcourt is overflowing with players in need of playing time, but if anything in that logjam is certain, it’s that this three-time Sixth Man of the Year will retain his role off the bench and put up the numbers to be in the running by season’s end.