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The NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1982–83 NBA season to the best defensive player of the regular season.
1982-83 — Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee Bucks. Take a look back at every Kia Defensive Player of the Year award winner in NBA history.
Full historical list of Defensive Player of the Year (Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy) winners.
Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert is the recipient of the Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy as the 2023-24 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, it was announced Tuesday on TNT.
The Memphis big man was announced Monday night as the recipient of the Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy as the 2022-23 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the second player to win the award...
Check out stats on every National Basketball Association Defensive Player of the Year winner on ESPN.com.
Gobert, the Minnesota center, was announced Tuesday as the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year for a record-tying fourth time — joining Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace.
Memphis Grizzlies star Jaren Jackson Jr. was one of four players in NBA history to have averaged at least three blocks and one steal per game for a top-five defense during the DPOY era.
The Celtics' Marcus Smart has been named NBA Defensive Player of the Year, with Mikal Bridges and Rudy Gobert finishing second and third, respectively.
NEW YORK – Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has been named the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, the NBA announced today. This marks the first NBA Defensive Player of the...