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Williams, playing in his 10th NBA season and first with the
Raptors, won the Sixth Man Award after averaging a career-high
15.5 points per game in helping Toronto win a franchise-record
49 games during the 2014-15 campaign.
The 28-year-old guard, who was coming off one of his worst
seasons, came off the bench in all 80 of his appearances and
averaged 25.2 minutes. He led or tied for the Raptors in scoring
18 times, second most in the league for a reserve.
He earned 78 first-place votes and 502 total points from a panel
of 130 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United
States and Canada.
Isaiah Thomas of the Boston Celtics finished a distant second
with 324 points and two-time winner Jamal Crawford of the Los
Angeles Clippers was third with 131 points.
(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; Editing by Frank Pingue)
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