It is the firm position of this blog that Robert Covington is an excellent basketball player who is about to make a ton of money. So when a writer for the league’s official website earmarks him as a potential Sixth Man of the Year candidate, best believe my ears are perking up.
Fran Blinebury, who covers the league for NBA.com, released a list of potential candidates for the 2017-18 Sixth Man of the Year, and alongside other mainstays in the voting—Jamal Crawford, Andre Iguodala, Eric Gordon, and Lou Williams—he shouted out Covington as a player to watch.