Clutch Player of the Year is a strange award for me because it can miss so much beyond the numbers.
To be entirely frank, either one of Steph Curry or DeMar DeRozan winning it this year would be fair. If it were to be Curry, it would be because he has been leading certain “clutch” metrics (with clutch period defined as the last five minutes of the fourth quarter with the score difference being five or fewer) this season.
Curry leads the league with 189 points in the clutch this season, 12 more than DeRozan. He’s shooting 50.