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He was one of two players in 2023-24 to average over two blocks and 12 rebounds per game. Led by Gobert, the Timberwolves recorded an NBA-best 108.4 defensive rating.
The NBA Defensive Player of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1982–83 NBA season to the best defensive player of the regular season. The winner is selected by a panel of 124 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and ...
One day after the Timberwolves stifled the defending champion Nuggets in Denver without him, Wolves center Rudy Gobert won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award for a record-tying fourth time ...
Gobert, the Minnesota center, was announced Tuesday as the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for a record-tying fourth time — joining Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Dikembe Mutombo and Ben ...
At the NBA's end-of-season awards night, Gobert was named the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for the second season in a row. [63] Gobert won the Alain Gilles Trophy as the French player of the year for 2019. [64] [65] With this he became the 10th multi time winner of the award, and the 9th ever to win back-to-back.
a Though the award winner is usually determined by nine votes, fans balloting on NBA.com accounted for the tenth vote in at least one NBA Finals. [40] [41] b Los Angeles Clippers player, Montrezl Harrell won the 2019-20 NBA Hustle Award, which honors the player that makes the energy and effort plays to help his team win throughout the season. [42]
After finishing third in the voting for this season’s NBA Defensive Player of the Year award for his highest finish in the balloting since he was drafted by the Heat in 2017, Adebayo has also ...
Jackson finished the 2021–22 season leading the NBA in blocks per game at 2.3 and finished with the most blocks that season with 177 blocks, 40 more than the second-place finisher. [30] For his efforts, he was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team [31] and finished fifth in Defensive Player of the Year voting. [32]