Over the last month of the season, the NBA MVP race was the most dominating discussion among most basketball fans across the country. And when the race is six players deep, who can blame them?
But while that discussion consumed most basketball fans, the race for the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award has quietly intensified. This season, though the perpetual candidates like Jamal Crawford and Manu Ginobili‘s chances of winning have taken a hit due to injuries and declining production respectively, the race between Golden State’s Marreese Speights and Andre Iguodala and Boston’s Isaiah Thomas has been just as close as the MVP race.