2025 NBA awards finalists Most Valuable Player: Nikola Jokić, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander , Giannis Antetokounmpo Defensive Player of the Year: Dyson Daniels , Draymond Green , Evan Mobley ...

Green won the award in 2017, was a top-three finisher for the fifth time, and was bidding to become the 11th player in NBA history to win it at least twice. Mobley won it for the first time, after ...

The NBA Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY) award was introduced in the 1982-83 season. A panel of 124 broadcasters and sportswriters from across the United States and Canada select the best ...

Gary Payton explained why he firmly believes it’s very unlikely that a pure point guard would ever win the NBA’s Defensive ...

Our panel sees Pritchard winning the Sixth Man award with ease, with the fifth-year guard averaging 14.3 points and 3.5 assists in 28.4 minutes off the bench for the Celtics, while shooting 40.7% ...

The NBA was set to announce this season's defensive player of the ... for its seven major individual awards — MVP, most improved player, coach of the year, clutch player of the year, rookie ...

The hardest NBA award to vote for is Defensive Player of the Year. You can decide what constitutes improvement for Most Improved Player, and you can easily decide what coaching expectations were ...

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James believes the NBA might benefit by taking a page from the NFL when it comes to awards season.

On Sunday, the NBA revealed the finalists for each of the seven end-of-season awards: Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Most Improved Player, Sixth Man of the ...

Green won the award in 2017, was a top-three finisher for the fifth time, and was bidding to become the 11th player in NBA history to win it at least twice. Mobley won it for the first time, after ...