NBA News – Rudy Gobert
Utah’s Gobert Wins Third DPOY Award in 4 Years – Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert reclaimed the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award Wednesday night, becoming the fourth player to be named the league’s top defender at least three times in his career. Gobert, who won the award in 2018 and ’19 before Giannis Antetokounmpo won it last year, earned 84 of 100 first-place votes and finished with 464 total points. Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons (15 first-place votes, 287 total points) and Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (76 total points) finished second and third, respectively. Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo finished fourth and received the remaining first-place vote. Dikembe Mutombo, Ben Wallace and Dwight Howard are the only other players who have won at least three Defensive Player of the Year awards. Mutombo and Wallace each won four times, and Howard won three. Read more at: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31600264/utah-jazz-center-rudy-gobert-wins-3rd-career-nba-defensive-player-year-award (Tim Bontemps/ESPN)
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