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Kirk Goldsberry

The Ringer 2026
Ballots cast
7
Seasons
1
2026
Mean similarity
0.88
field 0.77 (+0.11)
No-overlap ballots
0
shared no name with the top

Similarity is rank-biased overlap against each award's final order of finish — 1.00 is the consensus exactly, 0.00 shares no name with it. It measures how unusual a ballot was, not whether it was right: if the panel gets a season wrong, the voter who got it right scores as the outlier.

Least conventional ballot
2026 Clutch Player of the Year — ranked Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, then Jalen Brunson, then Cade Cunningham, similarity 0.61.

Every ballot

2026

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Keldon Johnson,
  2. 2 Jaime Jaquez Jr.,
  3. 3 Reed Sheppard
0.89
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Jalen Brunson,
  3. 3 Cade Cunningham
0.61
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Joe Mazzulla,
  2. 2 J.B. Bickerstaff,
  3. 3 Mitch Johnson
1.00
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Victor Wembanyama,
  2. 2 Chet Holmgren,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.89
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Nickeil Alexander-Walker,
  2. 2 Jalen Duren,
  3. 3 Stephon Castle
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Victor Wembanyama,
  3. 3 Nikola Jokic,
  4. 4 Luka Doncic,
  5. 5 Jaylen Brown
0.86
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Cooper Flagg,
  2. 2 Kon Knueppel,
  3. 3 VJ Edgecombe
1.00

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