{"id":5773,"date":"2025-05-01T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/5773\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:40:09","slug":"holidays-latest-win-celtics-guard-wins-nba-sportsmanship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/5773\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday&#8217;s latest win: Celtics guard wins NBA Sportsmanship Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/jrue-holiday-nba-sportsmanship-award\/706769\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Holiday&#039;s latest win: Celtics guard wins NBA Sportsmanship Award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Holiday&#8217;s latest win: Celtics guard wins NBA Sportsmanship Award<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Boston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Boston<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jrue Holiday\u2019s trophy case keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics guard has won the 2024-25 NBA Sportsmanship Award, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/jrue-holiday-2024-25-nba-sportsmanship-award\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the league announced Thursday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the league announced Thursday<\/a>. The award, first introduced during the 1995-96 season, honors the NBA player who \u201cbest represents the ideals of sportsmanship on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second NBA Sportsmanship Award for Holiday, who earned the honor with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021. Holiday is the first Celtics player to receive the award and is just the fifth player to win the award multiple times, joining Mike Conley, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd and former Celtic Kemba Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Holiday also has won the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award three times in his career (2020, 2022 and 2024) and is finalist for the 2024-25 NBA Social Justice Champion Award. The 16-year veteran has won two NBA championships (2021 with the Bucks and 2024 with the Celtics) in addition to a pair of gold medals with Team USA in 2020 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Holiday won the league\u2019s Sportsmanship Award, his team won an NBA championship, so he and the Celtics will be looking to continue that trend as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/playoff-schedule-dates-times-second-round-knicks-pistons\/706298\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:await their second-round opponent in the NBA playoffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">await their second-round opponent in the NBA playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holiday&#8217;s latest win: Celtics guard wins NBA Sportsmanship Award originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Jrue Holiday\u2019s trophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,75,2038,3096,371,121,6,3095,3094],"class_list":{"0":"post-5773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-jrue-holiday","11":"tag-kemba-walker","12":"tag-mike-conley","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-championships","16":"tag-nba-sportsmanship-award"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114433571159929445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}