<p>NEW YORK — Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday has won the Joe Dumars Trophy as the NBA player who best represents the ideals of sportsmanship on the court.</p>
<p>Each NBA team nominated a player for the award. After a panel of league executives chose one finalist from each of the NBA’s six divisions, 343 current players confidentially cast votes to select the winner.</p>
<p>“Just knowing that it came from the players, the guys who go through this with me and put their bodies on the line, train in the offseason, it means a lot,” Holiday said Friday.</p>
<p>Other finalists were Miami’s Bam Adebayo, Sacramento’s Harrison Barnes, Minnesota’s Josh Okogie, Boston’s Kemba Walker and San Antonio’s Derrick White.</p>
<p>Holiday received 130 first-place votes and 2,752 total points in the balloting. Walker, who won this award in 2017 and 2018, was second with 2,474 points.</p>
<p>Last season, Holiday won the NBA’s Twyman-Stokes teammate of the year award.</p>
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<a href="https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-pelicans-miami-heat-milwaukee-bucks-milwaukee-soccer-c02176165d5f18fc00cddcc7d0f26b0e">The 30-year-old Holiday averaged 17.7 points, 6.1 assists and 4.5 rebounds in 59 games this season</a> during his first year with Milwaukee. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/basketball-brooklyn-nets-milwaukee-bucks-nba-finals-nba-5102becb2fac74b531954590d1a0126e">Holiday’s Bucks begin a second-round playoff series with the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday at Brooklyn.</a></p>
<p>Holiday donated part of his 2019-20 salary to form the Jrue and Lauren Holiday Social Impact Fund with his wife, who won two Olympic gold medals and a World Cup as a midfielder with the U.S. women’s national soccer team.</p>
<p>His family’s foundation recently opened a second round of funding to provide up to $1 million in grant money to fund Black-owned businesses and Black-led organizations in the Milwaukee, New Orleans, Indianapolis and Los Angeles areas.</p>
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