Last spring, about a year after he was named 2015 NBA Finals MVP, Andre Iguodala found the award sitting in a bag in the corner of one of his spare bedrooms.
“Up until that point,” Iguodala recalled, “I didn’t even know where it was.”
A budding entrepreneur, Iguodala has long prioritized group goals over individual accolades. Now, with voting closed for the league’s major regular-season awards, the Warriors’ forward hardly cares that he is in the running for his first career Sixth Man of the Year Award.
How he feels about the potential honor doesn’t change an important reality, however: By winning the award, Iguodala would help change how the Sixth Man of the Year is viewed.