On April 26, Beijing time, the NBA officially announced another annual award, Warriors star Stephen Curry defeated DeRozan and Alexander to win the 2023-24 Best Key Player of the Season (CPOY), the first time in his career to win this award, the first person in the history of the Warriors and the second player in NBA history to win the West Award.
Curry won this season's CPOY by beating Alexander and DeRozan in total points in voting for the Best Key Player award, becoming only the second player in history to win this award since Fox, Curry won the first CPOY in his career and the first in Warriors history.
The Warriors officially posted a poster to congratulate Curry on winning the award for the first time.
It is worth mentioning that the Best Key Player award is a new award added by the NBA last season and is named after NBA legend Jerry West.
This season, Curry has played a total of 140 minutes in key moments (the final five minutes of the game and the margin is within five points), hitting 52 field goals, scoring 189 points and hitting 32 three-pointers, all of which rank first in the league, and the number of three-point shots made in key moments has set a new NBA history, with a true shooting percentage of 70% and an effective shooting percentage of 64% in key moments.
According to statistics, in the regular season this season, Curry's last 2 minutes (12 goals), last 1 minute (10 goals), last 30 seconds (7 goals), last 10 seconds (4 goals) and last 5 seconds (4 goals) all lead the league, and the shooting percentage exceeds the league's average.
In the regular season this season, Curry averaged 32.7 minutes per game, scored 26.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists, shot 45% from the field, 40.8% from three-point range, 92.3% from the free throw line, and hit 357 three-pointers.
The other two candidates who missed the CPOY -
This season, DeRozan scored 24 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists, shooting 48% from the field, 33.3% from three-point range, and 85.3% from the free throw line, averaging 4.8 minutes per game in key moments, 4.6 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.4 assists, scoring a total of 182 points in key moments, with a record of 24-16, and the Bulls finished the regular season with a 39-43 record and ranked 9th in the East.
Alexander averaged 30.1 points, 5.5 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 2 steals per game, shooting 53.5% from the field, 35.3% from three-point range, and 87.4% from the free throw line, averaging 3.2 minutes per game in key moments, 3.3 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.6 assists, scoring a total of 112 points in key moments, with a record of 23 wins and 11 losses, and the Thunder's final record in the regular season was 57-25, ranking first in the West.