10 candidates to win the inaugural Jerry West Trophy for the NBA's Clutch Player of the Year Award
How do you define clutch when it comes to NBA basketball?
It’s a question that even NBA executives don’t know how to answer. But starting this year, voters around the league will have to come up with some measurements to define this word because the league announced that at the end of the season, they will begin handing out the Jerry West Trophy for the NBA Clutch Player of the Year.
Even if the idea of what it means to be a clutch basketball player feels immeasurable, someone is going to hoist the trophy at the end of this NBA campaign. So we wanted to look at who the top candidates are based on how the season has played out thus far.
For this story, we used resources from Inpredictable as well as PBPStats and NBA.com. You can learn more about Inprecictable’s Clutch Win Probability Added (clWPA) or how PBPStats defines high-leverage possessions.