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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 ...
The 2016–17 season was the first in which the NBA held an awards show after the completion of the Finals, [10] during which the winners of all season-long individual awards are announced [11] except for the winner of the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, which continued to be announced during the playoffs until 2017 [12] and in 2018 was ...
Led by Gobert, the Timberwolves recorded an NBA-best 108.4 defensive rating. While Gobert has another defensive honor on his résumé, his time owning the award may be coming to an end.
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 ...
Gary Payton has the record for the most NBA All-Defensive first team selections consecutively, with nine, from 1993–94 to 2001–02. Dikembe Mutombo, who has won four NBA Defensive Player of the Year Awards, has been selected into the All-Defensive first and second team three times each.
Rudy Gobert made some history. Victor Wembanyama nearly did. Gobert, the Minnesota center, was announced Tuesday as the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for a record-tying fourth time ...
Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY or DPOTY) is the name of an award given in sports for outstanding defensive play by a single player over the course of a season. Many sports leagues award this type of award.
To no surprise, the Timberwolves had three finalists named for league awards Sunday. Center Rudy Gobert is up for his fourth Defensive Player of the Year award, going against Miami's Bam Adebayo ...