- NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award
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National Basketball Association awards and honors Championship • O'Brien Trophy • Brown Trophy (defunct) Individual awards • All-Star Game MVP • Most Improved Player • Bill Russell Finals MVP • Most Valuable Player • Coach of the Year • Rookie of the Year • Defensive Player of the Year • Sixth Man of the Year • Executive of the Year • Sportsmanship Award • J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award Honors • All-NBA Team • All-Defensive Team • All-Rookie Team The National Basketball Association's Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1982–83 NBA season, to the top 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 third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.[1][2]
Since its inception, the award has been given to 16 different players. Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace each won the award four times,[3], Dwight Howard has won it three times, while Sidney Moncrief, Mark Eaton, Dennis Rodman, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Alonzo Mourning have each won it twice. The most recent award recipient is Dwight Howard, who is also the youngest player to win and the only player to win the award three consecutive times.[4][5] Michael Jordan,[6] David Robinson,[7] Hakeem Olajuwon,[8] and Kevin Garnett[2][9] are the only Defensive Player of the Year winners to have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) during their careers; Jordan and Olajuwon won both awards in the same season.[6][8] In Olajuwon's case, he is the only one to have also won the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award and the NBA championship in the same season.[8]
No player trained completely outside the U.S. has won this award. The two winners born outside the country—Mutombo in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Olajuwon in Nigeria—both played U.S. college basketball (Mutombo at Georgetown and Olajuwon at Houston).
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Winners
^ Denotes player who is still active in the NBA * Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has received the award Notes
- a Has won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award
- b Has won the NBA championship
- c Hakeem Olajuwon was born in Nigeria, but became a naturalized United States citizen in 1993.[10]
- d Zaire was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1997.[11]
- e Ron Artest changed his name into Metta World Peace on September 16, 2011.[12]
See also
References
- General
- "Defensive Player of the Year". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/awards_defensiveplayer.html. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
- "Defensive Player of the Year Award Winners". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/dpoy.html. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
- Specific
- ^ "Nuggets’ Camby Wins NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. May 1, 2007. http://www.nba.com/news/camby_defensiveplayer_070427.html. Retrieved July 7, 2008.
- ^ a b "Kevin Garnett Wins Defensive Player of the Year Award". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. April 25, 2008. http://www.nba.com/news/garnett_defensive_080422.html. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
- ^ "Ben Wallace Wins Fourth Defensive Player of the Year Award". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. May 8, 2006. http://www.nba.com/news/bwallace_060508.html. Retrieved July 7, 2008.
- ^ "Howard becomes youngest to win Defensive Player of the Year". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/2009/news/04/21/defensive.player.of.year.ap/index.html. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
- ^ "Howard wins Kia Defensive Player of Year honors again". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. April 20, 2010. http://www.nba.com/2010/news/04/20/player.of.year.ap/index.html. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
- ^ a b "Michael Jordan Bio". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/players/jordan_bio.html. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
- ^ "David Robinson Bio". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/players/robinson_bio.html. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
- ^ a b c "Hakeem Olajuwon Bio". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/players/olajuwon_bio.html. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
- ^ "Kevin Garnett Bio". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kevin_garnett/bio.html. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
- ^ "Hakeem Olajuwon Bio: 1992-93". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/hakeem_olajuwon/bio.html. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
- ^ "Democratic Republic of the Congo". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html. Retrieved November 8, 2009.
- ^ "Artest's Name Change to Metta World Peace Approved". The New York Times. September 16, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/16/sports/basketball/AP-BKN-Artest-Name-Change.html. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
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