Deandre Jordan Wins 66-Vote Teammate of the Year Award
deandre jordan won the 2025/2026 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award, taking 66 first-place votes and 1,445 total voting points. The Pelicans center edged Jrue Holiday by 8 points and ended a seven-year run of the honor going to guards.
Jordan’s 66 First-Place Votes
Jordan finished with 66 first-place votes, 59 second-place votes, 46 third-place votes and 25 fifth-place votes. The voting system awards 10 points for a first-place vote, 7 for second, 5 for third, 3 for fourth and 1 for fifth, and his total put him ahead of a field that included some of the league’s most respected locker-room voices.
The award recognizes “the league’s best teammate, based on selfless play, leadership, and commitment to the team.” That profile fit Jordan’s case better than the guard-heavy recent run that had defined the trophy from 2018-19 through 2024-2025, when only Mike Conley, Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard and Steph Curry won it.
Holiday and Green Follow
Holiday finished second with 1,437 total voting points, just 8 behind Jordan. He received 39 first-place votes, 80 second-place votes, 61 third-place votes, 51 fourth-place votes and 29 fifth-place votes, a narrow gap that made the top of the ballot tighter than the final point total suggests.
Jeff Green finished third, while Garrett Temple took fourth with 1,223 voting points. Temple received 46 first-place votes, 40 second-place votes, 63 third-place votes, 40 fourth-place votes and 48 fifth-place votes, even though he has played only 22 regular-season games this season and has averaged 0.8 points, 0.4 rebounds and 0.4 assists while shooting 26.7 percent from the field, 25 percent from three and 66.7 percent from the free-throw line.
Temple’s Fourth-Place Finish
Temple’s placement offered the clearest wrinkle in the vote. The numbers show a player can still draw support for teammate value even when his on-court production is limited, and his ballot line was strong enough to put him ahead of several better-known names in the vote.
Jordan’s win gives New Orleans a season-end award tied to leadership rather than scoring, and it closes out the guard run that had controlled the trophy for seven straight seasons.
