NEW YORK – Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks is the recipient of the Joe Dumars Trophy presented to the 2011-12 NBA Sportsmanship Award winner, the NBA announced today.

Kidd (Southwest) was one of six divisional winners, which included Cleveland’s Antawn Jamison (Central), the Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul (Pacific), Miami’s Shane Battier (Southeast), Minnesota’s Luke Ridnour (Northwest), and New York’s Jeremy Lin (Atlantic).

Kidd received 93 first-place votes (2,501 total points) of a possible 334. The NBA will make a $10,000 donation on behalf of Kidd to The Jason Kidd Foundation, which is dedicated to improving education among the youth, by ensuring that kids of all ages have the tools needed through mentoring, tutoring and technology programs to succeed in life.

For the eighth consecutive year, NBA players voted on this award, with eleven points given for each first-place vote, nine points for each second-place vote, seven points for third, five points for fourth, three points for fifth and one point for each sixth-place vote received.  Each team nominated one of its players for the award. Former NBA players Greg Anthony, John Crotty, Antonio Davis, Eddie Johnson and Kenny Smith selected the six divisional winners from a pool of 30 team nominees.

The NBA will make a $5,000 donation to each of the divisional winner’s charities of choice: the Battier Take Charge Foundation on behalf of Battier; KaBOOM! on behalf of Jamison; the Jeremy Lin Foundation on behalf of Lin; the CP3 Foundation on behalf of Paul; and the Blaine (Wash.) Boys and Girls Club on behalf of Ridnour.

The annual award reflects the ideals of sportsmanship — ethical behavior, fair play and integrity — in amateur and professional basketball, a key focus of the league’s NBA Cares program efforts. The trophy is named for former Detroit Pistons guard and Hall of Famer Joe Dumars, the award’s first recipient.

Following is a list of this year’s voting totals for 2011-12 the NBA Sportsmanship Award. The balloting was tabulated by independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP.

2011-12 NBA SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD VOTING TOTALS

Player, Team                                 1^st        2^nd       3^rd        4^th        5^th        6^th        Points

Jason Kidd, Dallas                         93        74        69        44        31        16        2501

Shane Battier, Miami                      69        67        77        46        40        22        2273

Antawn Jamison, Cleveland            35        69        57        67        59        37        1954

Luke Ridnour, Minnesota               58        38        53        75        51        41        1920

Jeremy Lin, New York                    45        35        39        52        67        80        1624

Chris Paul, L.A. Clippers                34        45        29        32        65        115       1452

Following is the all-time list of winners:

ALL-TIME NBA SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNERS

Inaugural:       Joe Dumars (1995-96)                  2003-04:           P.J. Brown, New Orleans

1996-97:           Terrell Brandon, Cleveland           2004-05:           Grant Hill, Orlando

1997-98:           Avery Johnson, San Antonio        2005-06:           Elton Brand, L.A. Clippers

1998-99:           Hersey Hawkins, Seattle               2006-07:           Luol Deng, Chicago

1999-00:           Eric Snow, Philadelphia               2007-08:           Grant Hill, Phoenix

2000-01:           David Robinson, San Antonio      2008-09:           Chauncey Billups, Denver

2001-02:           Steve Smith, San Antonio             2009-10:           Grant Hill, Phoenix

2002-03:           Ray Allen, Seattle                           2010-11:           Stephen Curry, Golden State

2011-12:           Jason Kidd, Dallas