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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 ...
LeBron James is one of the most decorated players in NBA history. But it still bugs the Lakers star that he has never won the league's defensive player of the year award.
James finished in the top-five four different times, but never won Defensive Player of the Year outright. He has been voted onto six All-Defensive teams to Jordan’s nine.
James has also won four Finals MVP Awards, which is the second-most all-time, [471] and earned All-Defensive honors every season from 2009 to 2014. [5] While James has never won the Defensive Player of the Year Award, he has finished second in the voting twice and lists it as one of his main goals.
Hakeem Olajuwon is one of three players to win the NBA MVP and the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in the same season. Michael Jordan won the NBA MVP five times. Derrick Rose became the youngest player to ever win the award at age 22. LeBron James is a four-time NBA MVP. Stephen Curry won back-to
He won his fourth MVP in five seasons and probably should have been the Defensive Player of the Year. Lost to Ray Allen's series-saving 3-pointer was James' performance in Games 6 and 7 of the ...
Aside from these annual awards, the league also has weekly and monthly honors during the regular season for its players and coaches. In 2021, the NBA made a social justice award, named after 6-time NBA champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award. This award was made to recognize players who are making ...
James was also named NBA Finals MVP, raising the number of trophies he has won in his career to 13, tying him with Magic Johnson among players who have won at least one league MVP award, and ...