Before the 2025 playoffs get started in the NBA, we're going to take a moment ... Jokić), Rookie of the Year (Victor Wembanyama), Defensive Player of the Year (Rudy Gobert) and Coach of the ...

Draymond Green confidently declared himself the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, despite acknowledging strong competition from Evan Mobley and Dyson Daniels. Green's self-assessment stems from ...

Looking at the history of Defensive Player of the Year winners, Lu Dort has quite a mountain to climb if he wants to bring home the trophy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the honor is ...

While each of those players is key to the Celtics' success in their own ways, one NBA insider believes that ... other Celtics shooter who commands less defensive respect on the perimeter.

Once again, the NBA league office gave me an official ... statistical profile doesn’t stack up with other candidates. Defensive Player of the Year This was the hardest category — by far.

This is almost certainly Dort's best chance yet at an All-Defensive team. His play has been praised by the NBA media all season long, and players continue to give him respect. While the Defensive ...

I opened my official NBA awards ballot and voted for my selections for all of the league's top individual honors: the seven major end-of-season awards (Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of ...

No player in NBA history has accomplished the feat more than Russell Westbrook. In fact, the 6-foot-4 guard racked up an NBA single-season record of 42 triple-doubles during the 2016-17 campaign ...

Following the team’s 140-109 win against the Houston Rockets in their final home game of the regular season, JJ Redick ...

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