New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau has won the 2020-21 NBA Coach of the Year award.
This is the second time that he has won the award after he won in the 2010-11 season with the Chicago Bulls.
Thibodeau also becomes the first Knicks head coach to win Coach of the Year since Pat Riley in 1993.
Under Thibodeau, the Knicks finished with a 41-31 record and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2013.
The Knicks were eliminated by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round.
The 63-year-old coach received 43 first-place votes and earned 351 total points to beat out Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams, who finished in second place with 340 points (45 first-place votes).
Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder finished in third place with 161 points (10 first-place votes).
The full voting results:
Coaches were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters.