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
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
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 2000 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's fourth season. The 2000 season saw four expansion teams join the league, the Indiana Fever, Miami Sol, Portland Fire, and Seattle Storm. The season ended with the Houston Comets ...
, the award is named for the late
Kim Perrot, who helped guide the
Houston Comets
The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Houston. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. They are one of two ...
to their first two WNBA championships before she died in August, 1999, after suffering from
cancer for seven months.
Winners
;Notes
*
Denotes a player who is a United States citizen but is naturalized and represents a different country internationally.
See also
*
List of sports awards honoring women
References
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Awards established in 1997
Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese ...
Sportsmanship trophies and awards