Los Angeles Clippers guard Jamal Crawford has gotten some tongue-in-cheek notoriety for how many coaches he has played for over 16 NBA seasons (17, by the way). Now with this year’s awards coming out, he has gotten acknowledgement for another, more positive, reason.

On Tuesday morning, after receiving 51 first-place votes, Crawford was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year for the third time in his career. He also won the award in 2014 with the Clippers and in 2010 with the Atlanta Hawks, which is also the year he transitioned into becoming primarily a bench player.

Crawford averaged 14.2 points per game during this regular season, and he ranked second in the league in free throw percentage (90.4 percent) while playing 79 games (five starts) during his age-36 season.

Kevin McHale, Detlef Schrempf and Ricky Pierce are the other multiple-time Sixth Man of the Year winners in the history of the award, each winning it twice. Crawford, as could be expected, is the only one to win Sixth Man of the Year with two different teams.

An award like Sixth Man of the Year is one a lot of players would probably be hesitant to win at all, let alone multiple times, since it conveys the notion that someone isn’t good enough to start. But Crawford has clearly remained an important player off the bench for his teams as he has aged, and embracing a sixth man role has surely allowed him to be a more effective player when he’s on the floor. As the Clippers try to get over a playoff hump in the coming weeks, look for Crawford to be a key cog.