Norman Powell has been one of the top surprises early in the 2024-25 NBA season.
The 10-year veteran and 31-year-old shooting guard has long been known as a solid role player and more recently, one of the top sixth men in the league.
After winning a championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 as a key role player, Powell has since emerged as a scorer averaging nearly 20 points per game, finishing fourth in Sixth Man of the Year voting in each of the past couple of years.
However, this season has been different — he’s emerged as the Clippers’ leading scorer (23.7 points per game) ahead of three-time scoring champion James Harden, helping keep Los Angeles (16-12) afloat in the absence of Kawhi Leonard through the first quarter of the season.
The results have been surprising considering the Clippers are without their best player in Leonard and are coming off of an offseason in which they lost two of their…
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