Steph Curry can’t repeat as Teammate of the Year, loses to Jordan

It was a down year for the Golden State Warriors in 2025-26. Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody suffered devastating injuries to their knees. The Jonathan Kuminga situation lingered and festered for nearly a year. Brandin Podziemski alienated Warriors fans with his bravado, inconsistency, and lush, flowing locks. The team lost in a play-in game. And Steph Curry lost his title as Teammate of the Year.

Curry upped his scoring this season to 26.6 PPG but saw declines in rebounds, assists, and teammatery. While he is ineligible for other NBA honors due to the league’s 65-game requirement, that does not extend to the Twyman-Stokes Award. DeAndre Jordan played only 12 games for the New Orleans Pelicans. but he was apparently a great teammate to a 26-56 Pelicans team that relied heavily on two first-round rookies in Jeremiah Fears and Derik Queen. Plus, Jordan Poole was on the roster for an entire season and no punches were thrown!

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Still, apparently voters don’t take wins and losses into account with the Teammate of the Year award anymore. They could have lost 56 games without DeAndre Jordan! But we guess the Twyan-Stokes Award doubles as a participation trophy now.

Jordan is extremely well-liked among NBA players, so much that Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant insisted on bringing Jordan along when they signed with the Brooklyn Nets in 2019. Arguably they should have kept him around, since the Irving-Durant-James Harden partnership imploded the season after Jordan left. The three-time All-NBA center is still in the league at age 37 despite averaging 162 points per season the last five years.

He has a long history of displaying strong teammate skills, dating back to his time as the fictional legal guardian for Rapping Baby Damian Lillard and Uncanny Valley Teenage Kevin Love as matriarch of The Hoopers.

The Twyman-Stokes Award is named after Hall of Famers Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes, who were teammates on the Rochester Royals in 1958 when a fall in the final game of the season left Stokes completely paralyzed. Twyman became Stokes’ legal guardian and supported him until his death 12 years later.

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