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Gar Heard's 95.30 defensive rating is the NBA's all-time career record. [3] Ben Wallace's 87.48 defensive rating in 2003–2004 is the single-season record. [4]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. National Basketball Association award NBA Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace, Dikembe Mutombo and Rudy Gobert have won the award a record four times. Sport Basketball League National Basketball Association Awarded for Best defensive player in regular season of the National ...
DPR (short for Defensive Player Rating) is a stat that shows the Defensive prowess of a player showing their in game ability and defensive impact to their team by using a per game formula that equates for the amount of time spent on the court and taking into account position competition pace and era as well as other factors. This is the formula:
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. Wembanyama ...
That 2005 NBA championship was a defensive gem the Spurs won in seven games, when only once did San Antonio or Detroit top 100 points. This season, the Indiana Pacers are leading the way on ...
The 2004 rule changes, which also included calling the defensive 3 second rule ("a defensive player may not station himself in the key area longer than three seconds"—a longstanding rule which had been ignored by referees) had a major effect, opening up the game and allowing a more free-flowing offense; it encouraged aggressive inside attack ...
De'Aaron Fox's two per game led the NBA last season, and there is no reason Wembanyama cannot push his 1.2 steals per game to two this season. Then a David Robinson record is in play.
Advanced basketball statistics include effective field goal percentage (eFG%), true shooting percentage (TS%), (on-court/off-court) plus–minus, adjusted plus-minus (APM), real plus/minus (RPM), player efficiency rating (PER), offense efficiency rating, offensive rating, defensive rating, similarity score, tendex, and player tracking.