Congrats to Jamison for Winning the 6th Man Award!

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NEW YORK, April 23 – Antawn Jamison of the Dallas Mavericks has been named the winner of the 2003-04 NBA Sixth Man Award, honoring the league’s top player in a reserve role, the NBA announced today.

Jamison received 338 points, including 43 of a possible 120 first-place votes, from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Al Harrington of the Indiana Pacers finished second with 275 points and the San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginobili finished third with 244 points.

Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote received. Jamison appeared in all 82 regular season games this season for the Mavericks, coming off the bench to average 14.8 points on .535 shooting from the field (third in the NBA), 6.3 rebounds and 1.01 steals per game in his first season in Dallas.

Jamison scored a season-high 26 points three times this season, including in a 106-87 home victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on January 22 where he shot .769 from the field (10-of-13 FG) with nine rebounds in only 27 minutes. Jamison and Antoine Walker are the only two Mavericks who appeared in all of Dallas’ regular season games.

In his sixth NBA season, Jamison helped Dallas to its fifth consecutive winning campaign and 10th winning season in franchise history. The Mavericks are making their fourth straight playoff appearance.

Jamison was a first round selection by Toronto in the 1998 NBA Draft (fourth overall). His draft rights were traded by the Raptors to the Golden State Warriors for the draft rights to Vince Carter and cash on June 24, 1998. He was traded to Dallas from the Warriors along with Danny Fortson, Chris Mills and Jiri Welsch in exchange for Evan Eschmeyer, Nick Van Exel, Avery Johnson, Popeye Jones and Antoine Rigaudeau on August 13, 2003.

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Jamison's stats for 2003-04:

Finished third on the Mavericks in scoring (14.8 ppg) and rebounding (6.3 rpg) while shooting a team-high 53.5% in 29.0 minutes per game. Also led the team in offensive rebounding (2.8 orpg).

Came off the bench in all but two games after starting all 82 games the last three seasons for Golden State. One of two Mavericks (Antoine Walker) to have appeared in all 82 games this season.

Shot a career-high 53.1% from the floor, which tied for third-best in the NBA. Prior to this season, his highest shooting percentage was 47.1% in 1999-00.

Owns the NBA's longest current streak of consecutive games played with 328.

Shot a career-high 40.0% (16-40 3FGs) from behind-the-arc this season after averaging 208 3-point attempts in his final three seasons with the Warriors. His previous career-high in 3-point percentage was 32.4% in 2001-02.

In 17 games this season, he single-handedly outscored the entire opponent's bench . Dallas was 15-2 in those games.

He led the Maverick reserves in scoring 64 times and scored 20 or more points 24 times. He also recorded nine double-doubles.

Committed only 1.0 turnovers a game, down from a career average of 2.14 entering this season.

Averaged 1.01 steals per game this season and led Dallas in steals a team-high 23 times.

In the month of April (eight games played), he averaged 19.0 points on 64.1% shooting.