"Best Moment In My Life": Spurs' Keldon Johnson emotional after NBA 6MOTY surprise

"Best Moment In My Life": Spurs' Keldon Johnson emotional after NBA 6MOTY surprise originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

More than anything else, the San Antonio Spurs have upheld the reputation that team chemistry on and off the court matters. In the middle of their NBA Playoffs series against the Portland Trail Blazers, Keldon Johnson was announced the NBA 6MOTY (Sixth Man of the Year). Clearly, Coach Mitch Johnson and the rest of the squad were busy making schemes but they freed up their time to celebrate the historic win.

Johnson gets real on why Spurs NBA 6MOTY was the best in his life

The Spurs clearly knew of the information beforehand. So, the staff led by Coach Mitch Johnson had to surprise Keldon Johnson after it was announced that he was the Sixth Man of the Year. The veteran forward really appreciated the gesture and could not help but express his elation, via the NBA.

"There's no way everybody said a surprise. Sure enough, I walk up the steps and every single person had on a cowboy hat. I'm genuinely telling you, this is probably like the best moment in my life. To be able to walk up there and see my teammates in cowboy hates and screaming, yelling together, for me to be winning sixth man. It was probably one of the best surprises," Johnson said.

He now joins elite company in league history. Johnson becomes only the second member of the Spurs to win NBA 6MOTY, next to Manu Ginobili who notched the award back in 2008.