From leading in clutch scoring in the Regular Season, Stephen Curry has become the NBA’s Clutch Player of The Year for the 2023-24 season.

As a new award introduced last year, “Clutch Player of The Year” honors the best player at the end of intense matches. The concept of “clutch” is introduced in matches with a difference of less than 5 points when 4 main rounds have 5 minutes left.

In 2024, the Clutch Player of The Year award belongs to Stephen Curry, 3-point record holder and Golden State Warriors star.

Stephen Curry defeated DeMar DeRozan with a fairly narrow margin on the voting results table. The Warriors star earned 298 points compared to DeRozan’s 272 points.

Ranked third is defender with a high possibility of entering the All-NBA Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Completing the top-5 are Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) and Jalen Brunson (New York Knicks).

In the 2023-24 season, Stephen Curry leads the entire NBA in clutch points with 189 points. DeRozan is right behind with 182 points. Shai ranked 3rd with 112 clutch points.After receiving the award, Stephen Curry had an interesting sharing about scoring points in tense matches towards the end: “Talking about scoring ‘clutch’ points, I think that I have to get used to failure and difficult shots.” throw failed.

Everyone will remember the highlights or the winning shots, but it also goes along with the missed shots that you thought were a good shot, but the ball just didn’t go in the basket.

What’s important is what we learn each time. After learning the lesson, we must quickly forget it and maintain confidence.”

This “Clutch Player of The Year” award helps Stephen Curry gain another title in the 36-year-old star’s illustrious playing career.

He is currently the owner of 2 MVP titles, All-Star Game MVP, Finals MVP and 4 NBA championship rings. Regarding the typical team, Curry was an All-Star 10 times and was honored in the All-NBA team 9 times (4 times 1st Team, 4 times 2nd Team and 1 time 3rd Team).

Last season, the Clutch Player of The Year title belonged to De’Aaron Fox of the Sacramento Kings.