All of the focus for this NBA award season has rightly been centered around one of the tightest MVP races in decades. The term “valuable” creates hours upon hours of debate over something completely subjective, and while the Sixth Man of the Year doesn’t create the same amount of heated discussion, it is just as vague.
The singular requirement to be eligible for Sixth Man is that you must have come off the bench for more games than you started. That still leaves well over half the league eligible, but despite the large pool of players to chose from, the same type of player gets picked year after year.