Women's National Basketball Association awards and honors
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Rookie of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
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Community Assist Award
Most Valuable Player
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Peak Performers
Sixth Player of the Year
Kim Perrot Sportsmanship
Basketball Executive of the Year
Honors
All-WNBA Team
Top 15 Players
Top 25 Players
All-Rookie Team
WNBA All-Decade Team
Top 20 Players
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The Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season, to the player who most "exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court—ethical behavior, fair play and integrity." This is the same criterion used by the analogous NBA Sportsmanship Award, given by the NBA since its 1995–96 season.
Every year, each of the WNBA teams nominates one of its players to compete for this award. From these nominees, a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters vote for first and second place winners of this award. First place selections receive two votes, while second place selections receive one. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.
Since the 2000 WNBA season, the award is named for the late Kim Perrot, who helped guide the Houston Comets to their first two WNBA championships before she died in August, 1999, after suffering from cancer for seven months.
Nneka Ogwumike, Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings have won the award the most times, with 3 selections.
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2008 KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward: Vickie Johnson 2009 All-WNBA First Team: Becky Hammon 2009 All-WNBA Second Team: Sophia Young 2011 KimPerrot Sportsmanship...
2008 KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward: Vickie Johnson 2009 All-WNBA First Team: Becky Hammon 2009 All-WNBA Second Team: Sophia Young 2011 KimPerrot Sportsmanship...
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2017 KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward: Sue Bird 2018 Most Valuable Player: Breanna Stewart 2018 Most Improved Player: Natasha Howard 2018 KimPerrot Sportsmanship...
after the 2022 season with the Lynx. The WNBA bestowed the KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward to Fowles in her final season in 2022. The Minnesota Lynx retired...
all-star game. In 2000, she received the WNBA's top award for sportsmanship, the KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward. In 1997, 1999 and 2000, Wicks and the Liberty...
Katie Smith 2004 Coach of the Year: Suzie McConnell Serio 2004 KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward: Teresa Edwards 2006 Rookie of the Year: Seimone Augustus 2006...
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Haixia received the KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward becoming the first Asian woman as well as international player to win any award in the WNBA. She led...
received the KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward. Chatman finished a close second for Coach of the Year, Delle Donne narrowly missed the MVP award, and Fowles...
Mercury in 1997 where she was All-WNBA in 1999 and won the KimPerrotSportsmanshipAward in her final season. Gillom became the head coach of the Xavier...
Lauren Jackson, one-time MVP winner Breanna Stewart, and three-time SportsmanshipAward winner Sue Bird. The trio were among eight Storm players named to...
defeat Geno Auriemma, Tara VanDerveer and Kim Mulkey in the same season. Staley was again named Naismith Award winner, and coached the National Player of...
made (365) and assists (538). She received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association as the best senior player...
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