The NBA today announced that Clippers Head Coach Doc Rivers has been named a finalist for the 2018-19 NBA Coach of the Year Award and that guard Lou Williams and forward Montrezl Harrell have both been named finalists for the 2018-19 KIA Sixth Man of the Year Award, as voted on by a global panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. The winners will be announced at the third annual NBA Awards presented by Kia on Monday June 24th at 6:00 p.m. PT on TNT, held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Under Rivers’ leadership, the Clippers finished the 2018-19 season with a 48-34 record and earned the eighth seed in the Western Conference Playoffs.