The greatest sixth man from each NBA team

Greatest sixth man in Toronto Raptors: Lou Williams

The Toronto Raptors are one of the league’s younger teams, and therefore do not have as long of a period with which to have captured the best of the best sixth man seasons. Players coming off of the bench have only averaged double-digit points seven times, and only once has a player broke 27 minutes per game.

Even so, the Raptors caught lightning in a bottle in 2014-15 when they employed the services of  Lou Williams. The combo guard had found great success as a bench scorer in Philadelphia and Atlanta prior to being traded to the Raptors in the summer of 2014.

“Sweet Lou” responded in a contract year by dropping 15.5 points per game, the most by any Raptors bench player over the past twenty years. He hit 152 3-pointers, the most in his career to that point and the most on the entire team. He was recognized for his efforts with the Sixth Man of the Year award.

The next season Williams signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, ending his brief time in Toronto. Since then the Raptors have built a strong and deep bench with multiple players who could start elsewhere. For one season, however, they had one of the sixth-man greats dropping in buckets for Toronto.