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Kyle Hightower

Associated Press 2025–2026
Ballots cast
14
Seasons
2
2025–2026
Mean similarity
0.79
field 0.77 (+0.02)
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
2025 Most Improved Player — ranked Cade Cunningham, then Dyson Daniels, then Ivica Zubac, similarity 0.50.

Every ballot

2026

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jaime Jaquez Jr.,
  2. 2 Keldon Johnson,
  3. 3 Tim Hardaway Jr.
0.67
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Anthony Edwards,
  3. 3 Cade Cunningham
0.72
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 Ausar Thompson,
  3. 3 Chet Holmgren
0.83
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jalen Duren,
  2. 2 Nickeil Alexander-Walker,
  3. 3 Ryan Rollins
0.56
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Victor Wembanyama,
  4. 4 Luka Doncic,
  5. 5 Jaylen Brown
0.96
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Kon Knueppel,
  2. 2 Cooper Flagg,
  3. 3 VJ Edgecombe
0.67

2025

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Payton Pritchard,
  2. 2 Ty Jerome,
  3. 3 Malik Beasley
0.83
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 Jalen Brunson,
  2. 2 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Anthony Edwards
1.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 J.B. Bickerstaff,
  2. 2 Kenny Atkinson,
  3. 3 Ime Udoka
0.67
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Evan Mobley,
  2. 2 Dyson Daniels,
  3. 3 Jaren Jackson Jr.
0.89
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Cade Cunningham,
  2. 2 Dyson Daniels,
  3. 3 Ivica Zubac
0.50
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  3. 3 Jayson Tatum,
  4. 4 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  5. 5 Donovan Mitchell
0.73
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Stephon Castle,
  2. 2 Zaccharie Risacher,
  3. 3 Jaylen Wells
1.00

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