Ty McGee wins SlamBall Offensive Player of the Year after league-leading scoring binge

Ty McGee turned SlamBall’s scoring race into a gap that felt almost structural. The Wrath gunner won Offensive Player of the Year after averaging 26.9 points per game, and the season review makes the separation plain: no other player in the league reached 20 points per game.

That kind of distance matters in SlamBall because the sport is built around finishing in traffic, rising off the trampolines and converting high-value shots under contact. McGee was not just piling up volume. He was doing it with a scoring profile that fit the league’s most demanding offensive job. He finished third in rim-attack percentage at 67.7 percent, going 40-for-59, and was perfect on offensive Face Offs at 7-for-7. The next-closest scorer, the Mob’s Darius Clark, averaged 19.8 points per game, leaving McGee ahead by 7.1 points a night.

The award also landed in the shadow of the Mob’s all-out season domination. Gage Smith won MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, Cam Hollins took 5th Man of the Year and Brendan Kirsch was named Coach of the Year. The Mob swept the major team-side storylines by going 16-0 in the regular season and 18-0 overall, then beating the Slashers 72-42 in the championship game. They led the league in points per game, points allowed, scoring margin, field goal percentage, dunks per game, offensive Face Off percentage, assists per game and stops per game.

Even with that Mob machine taking most of the hardware, McGee’s value stood apart because he came from the other side of the league’s best team narrative. He was the offensive archetype SlamBall keeps selling: the gunner who can create shots off the trampoline, absorb contact and keep scoring when defenses know exactly where the ball is going. The league’s role-based honors only underline that point. In a sport where position and function matter as much as raw totals, McGee gave the season a clean answer for who the premier finisher was.

His peak was not limited to the season-long race. McGee set the SlamBall single-game scoring record with 43 points against the Rumble on July 22, 2023, breaking the old mark of 42 held by Stanley “Shakes” Fletcher, now the Slashers’ head coach. SlamBall Series 6 opened July 21, 2023 at Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas and ran seven weeks across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN+, but McGee’s scoring binge supplied the clearest measure of what the league’s offense could look like at its most explosive.