{"id":690980,"date":"2026-04-01T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690980\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:30:18","slug":"jaylin-williams-nominated-for-this-2025-26-nba-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690980\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylin Williams nominated for this 2025-26 NBA award"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 31, 2026, 5:00 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

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Considering how the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have sat atop the NBA standings all season, expect them to be heavily featured again in this year’s batch of award races. Of course, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander headlines things by being a probable back-to-back MVP winner.<\/p>\n

Now, the Thunder have another surprising nominee for an NBA award that goes under the radar. The league announced on Tuesday that Jaylin Williams was a finalist for the 2025-26 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

The annual honor recognizes the player deemed the best teammate based on selfless play, on-court and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players. And commitment and dedication to the team. There were 12 nominees, with six in each conference.<\/p>\n

The other 11 names were Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brunson, De’Aaron Fox, Desmond Bane, Jrue Holiday, Marcus Smart, Duncan Robinson, Pat Connaughton, Jeff Green, DeAndre Jordan and Garrett Temple.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t be a shocker to see Williams among the group. He’s enjoying a career season of 7.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists. It’s his best year yet as he’s established himself in OKC’s rotation. Personality-wise, he perfectly fits into this group’s vibes.<\/p>\n

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Good to see Williams get some recognition for that from a national level. He’s low-key been one of OKC’s best development stories ever. He’s turned into a real weapon for them who can seamlessly scale up and down to whatever the Thunder need from him on a night-to-night basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 31, 2026, 5:00 p.m. CT Considering how the Oklahoma City Thunder have sat atop the NBA standings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[72400,7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,30882,72482,72404,72555,73430,72693,72444,72422,72484,72405,78678,72406,312,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-690980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma","12":"tag-oklahoma-city","13":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","14":"tag-oklahomacity","15":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","16":"tag-sstssportsnbathunder","17":"tag-sstsnokc-thunder","18":"tag-tagbasketball","19":"tag-tagdesmond-bane","20":"tag-tagjaylin-williams","21":"tag-tagmarcus-smart","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnba","24":"tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","25":"tag-tagoverall-positive","26":"tag-tagpat-connaughton","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-thunder","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116326868219004530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690980","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=690980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}